Re: National coverage on Monday (and Tuesday) (511 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: May 23, 2006 02:38PM
Good points, Ron.
Well its Tuesday now, and the New York Times, which stopped printing entries for the races a couple of decades ago, had Barbaro coverage on the first page of the Sports section and an ENTIRE PAGE OF HORSE RACING (mostly concerning breakdowns) on the second page of the Sports section.
Maybe NC Tony can tell us what percentage of the 200,000 people at the NASCAR race Saturday were actually hoping to see the greatest pile up of all time.
As a racing fan AND admirer of the breed, I don't really care about dissecting the minute points of why Barbaro broke down. I dont want to review his pre race warm up over and over again as if it were the Zapruder film...
I hope this guy makes it. Barbaro seems to be a cooperative patient, unlike Alydar (who suffered awful injuries to his rear leg in a stall accident(?) at Calumet and was his own worst enemy). If he can beat laminitis, maybe we can watch his babies run in 3 years, and tell stories of brittle colts and heroic vets.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/23/2006 02:47PM by richiebee.
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