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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
Why not just go back posting under your WinterTriangle account?
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Hi Mike, I think there was about a 10 year break there, not same email, didn't remember password and actually didn *remember* what username I had here (I've had several different usernames over the last 19 years on different forums......and on the day I felt like posting something last year, I just started a new account.
If you want to meld them for me, by all means, please do.
(I am somewhat *intrigued* by why you didn't PM that question to me though.
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There's a shade of accusatory undertone there......though I do not know why? Make no mistake. I am not at all ashamed or embarassed about ANY opinion I post here, or have ever posted here.... whether or not 1 person, 10 people, or the majority of people disagree with it.
If it's because I didn't agree w/one of your inner circle about owners retiring horses early to the breeding shed, or about trainers not knowing how to run the paycheck portion of their million dollar business......fine.
So------
meanwhile my question about race horse retirement, where I suggested that *the horses themselves* have a right to
*take something off the table* just like their owners do, seems to have gone unanswered.
You probably would not be suprised if I told you just how many people have walked away from horse racing in the last 10 years. People who were quite passionate about it. I noticed when I came back there were fewer *voices* that I was familiar with from back in the old days. As a matter of fact several forums I've been on in the past I've noticed just ....... dwindling down to low numbers.
I will continue to give my opinion on how it's all coming down around our ears, and how the status quo opinion isn't fixing it, and how the perception of horses being like poker chips that owners push around the table and then "cash in" doesn't sit too well with a whole lotta people anymore, and all the other things that are going to be recitfied (or racing WILL die) in the near future. Every decade brings a new consciousness with it, and a new generation. What was okay 70 years ago isn't okay today.
Am I sarcastic about it all sometimes? yeah, I am. Watching bettors getting ripped off, or watching horses suffer and/or die (among many other wrongs) doesn't require me to wear kid gloves. Political correctness has no place in many of these instances.
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