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09-21-2005, 12:56 AM
Very nice short piece by Mr Bergstein over at DRF.
Hovdey has a piece on the new track in New Mexico so you get two for one if your interested in that.
I really enjoyed Bergstiens column and I recommend it to you if have 5 minutes.
I snipped a couple of paragraphs.
"For a sport once called the Sport of Kings," Mr. Buehler began, "it may now be better known as the Sport of Kinks. From trying to get hold of something nobody else has or something they do not yet have a test for, horsemanship in the real sense is basically dead. No longer is it about taking care of your horses and getting them to be their best. Currently it is a case of butchering horses at a tremendous rate, getting as much as you can as fast as you can at whatever the cost to horse and industry."
He wrote: "I have been stabled besides big barns many times, and some of the horses these stables lead over to run I would not even have entered. They are sore, sour and to me should not be asked to run. But these horses go over and you can't beat them. They don't come out of their stalls for days after the race, but for that half an hour every ten days or two weeks all their problems disappear. I can't achieve that with my horses."
Hovdey has a piece on the new track in New Mexico so you get two for one if your interested in that.
I really enjoyed Bergstiens column and I recommend it to you if have 5 minutes.
I snipped a couple of paragraphs.
"For a sport once called the Sport of Kings," Mr. Buehler began, "it may now be better known as the Sport of Kinks. From trying to get hold of something nobody else has or something they do not yet have a test for, horsemanship in the real sense is basically dead. No longer is it about taking care of your horses and getting them to be their best. Currently it is a case of butchering horses at a tremendous rate, getting as much as you can as fast as you can at whatever the cost to horse and industry."
He wrote: "I have been stabled besides big barns many times, and some of the horses these stables lead over to run I would not even have entered. They are sore, sour and to me should not be asked to run. But these horses go over and you can't beat them. They don't come out of their stalls for days after the race, but for that half an hour every ten days or two weeks all their problems disappear. I can't achieve that with my horses."