@poochgal592 don't u DARE dis barrel racing! I'm learingto now, and the horse I ride is a barrel racer and I'm just learining. Trouble, the horse, loves running the barrels and you can feel all of the excitment under her. Horses love it and there are many precautions taken like the rider is usually traned well before they start and there's usually lots of troting or even just circling first. They also check to make sure the sand wnt be slippery. It may be a little risky, but all are, even racing
ok I just read some of the comments. It stinks that I cant watch a horse racing video without someone acting like babies and fighting over it. That goes for both sides of the argument.
Also the horses are so well looked after by their jockeys/trainers. Have you ever heard of the great race horse barbaro, he had an amazing winning streak and his rider pulled him away from a race because he new something was wrong. Even that shows that they are NOT in it just for the money.
Everytime I'm at Keeneland and they start a race on the front stretch, I always go "what would happen if they didn't get the gate out of the way?". Now I know.
the connections to these horses must have been ELATED in anger.
did they get their entrance fee back? hell i woould have filed suit against the track.
its not these horses can jus re run again after the tractors fixed.
i mean this is a big no no in horse racing. not only are the owners owed the entrance fee, but compensated for all the money it took for these horses to train up to this race
I would be so mad if I was Borel...... he was leading practically the whole time just to get passed up while trying to warn the other jockeys...... did that race count???
@crockjock Races like this would be declared a "no contest," now I'm not sure about Oaklawn but every place I've raced would divide the purse money equally amongst all of the starters.
@iekoo23 Im not tring to start a fight or anything in that manner. in a way i do understand where youre coming from. alot of people in this sport look at it as profit, and see dollar bills when they look at these animals. I absolutly despise these peopie, and have to look at thses people every day. so i do agree wit you sum wat,but not EVERY person is like that, my mom loves her horses. see them every day treats her horses like her very own life lives within dem..
Saw your vid. Bravo, got your horse to jump 2 feet over a broom handle. Makes ya an expert. Well done. Opinions r like bum holes, everyone, has one. I agree with cadddyyyxO, the worst mistake U make is U think what U think U see. Come with me one day to a race track and learn. I'm still healing from a track accident 2 years ago. The horse walked away . But I didn't. Because I gave every bone, muscle and brain cell to help it. If ignorance is bliss, you must be very happy.
"lekoo23"...... I see you failed to watch the video cause if u had, u just might have learned something and you surely wouldn't be here still flapping your trap about how u dislike horse racing. If u hate it so much, why do u continue to come here and complain. Stick to the show ring with your horse sense, cause thats where it belongs....."Jagar"
Perhaps since you are on YouTube you need to type in your search bar... "Racehorse Welfare & Safety"... By BCWorldChampionship.. This 4 minute video will do you good!....Listen very carefully and you just may learn something. This is an everyday occurance that happens on the "backside", I know....."Jagar"
BigLicker76, First off i am not a member of PETA, nor will I ever be. Secondly, Watch your language. Act like an adult. Racing is dangerous, and causes MANY fatal accidents. Ask any decient horseman and %1000 of them will agree with me!
Apparently you have tunnel vision of the brain! You contradict yourself immensly when it comes to your posts. Any decent horsemen will agree with you..lol what a laugh! Now u are really showing ur intelligence. Yeah, horse racing is dangerous, so is boxing, auto racing, hockey, football and many other sports. Professional atheletes are killed in those sports as well.. So, should we ban all them too.. haha. Give me a break dude! Do your homework before flapping your trap anymore......"Jagar"
@ausfuhrpramienjagar No, I would not bann those sperts, and I will tell you why. People playing those sports have the ability to understand the risk of playing those sports, and make the decision to take or not to take that chance. Horses do not have a human brain, therefore they do not have the ability to understand the risk at hand, nor are they given the choice to race or not to race. Just for the record, I hear of MANY more fatalities in horse racing than any human sport.
I consider you a foolish PETA member! You need to do some serious studying before you open your misinformed mouth about horse racing. It's the most safety concious, animal sport there is.. The horses are checked at least twice on race day by the track vet, even before they make it to the starting gate. Horses are checked for performance enhancing drugs in every race, so there goes your drug theory out the window! Injuries occur in all sports, horse racing included, so whats your point? Jagar
Actually, some types of drugs are liegal in racing. I am not PETA. And if it was so safety conscious, why would thay keep doing it even though herses repeatedly are injured and killed? Even perfectly healthy horses break a leg and have 2 b put down ALL OF THE TIME! So shut your trap. I wasn't asking for your response!
actually, a lot of the horses that break down on the track are rehabilitated and are placed into good homes. why don't you take the time to learn about the sport before you talk sit about it.
yes, but i'm actually involved in the sport. yes, it's dangerous to both horse and rider, but so is any other style of riding. i've seen countless horses break down due to jumping.
Yes it does happen in jumping and other sports, but it happens 100x more in raceing. I think that anyone envolven in racing is just money hungry and does not care about the animals. Race horse people are a pathetic excuse for horse people.
@lekoo23 GO to the race track one day and see what people do for these horses. They get up at four in the morning and leave at about five unless its a race day then thay leave at about 11 or 12 AT NIGHT!! And it dosent matter what you do to try to stop racing there are alot more people who know racing and love it not for the money andacually horsess love racing why would secretarite run and win by 31 lenghts if he dident want to run and why dont yuu try to make a 1000 pound horse to run
@jamesskater100 pitbulls used 4 fighting get pampered b4 the fight. they only do it 2 improve performance. they dnt care about the horses, just the money. horses r prey animals, they run like hell when they r scared. i never said that they dont enjoy running, but that dsnt make it any less dangerous. more horses get injured in raceing than in any other equestrian sport.
Copy that. I've many times put my shoulder under an injured and tried to lift 1000 lbs. off an injured limb until the horse ambulance (the bus) arrives. Loose the girth so they can breath deep and keep them calm. Last time U had a deep body smack, it was all about deep breaths, no doubt about. I've been off, as a kid.
I know nothing happened in this video , but seriously, horse racing is so stupid. It is dangerous and unethical. Giving animals steroids is discusting! Also horses are constantly getting injured on the track and sometimes have to be put down. Also, the racing industry is overbreeding race horses and running out of space for them so they are euthanizing thousands of perfectly healthy horses because they dont have room for all of them. I considder horse racing animal cruelty!
@lekoo23 H horse racing isn't cruel, infact i don't even think you understand it, do you own any racehorses/ex- racehorses? I own alot of ex racers and trust me they really love to run. Infact i end up going home with sore arms because they are pulling on the reins to go faster. These animals love to run. And yes some of them are involved in accidents but if the horse didn't want to race do you really think a man could make it? It would just buck him off.
@poochgal592 no, i do not own racehorses, but i have probably worked with many more than u! they run because they r so neurotic from doing nothing but that. horses r flight animals darling. they run whan they r scared. im not saying horses dont naturally want 2 run, im saying racing is dangerous and sometimes unkind 2 the horses. if u think that a sport is worth such a high risk 4 a living creature, than u have no compassion and no conscience.
@lekoo23 You have worked with many more? Really though lol. My uncle breeds racehorses so i am one of the people who actualy help look after them. Yes there are many risks in it but that is the courses fault not the actual race itself. I believe that they should take more saftey procedures on it because there are so many accidents but it isn't cruelty to the animal.
@lekoo23 Also When we get the new foals we make sure that if they do not go into racing that the person we are selling to has a good background and we even go to where they will be keeping the horse. We would never put them to slaughter and we know that the majority of trainers wouldn't even think of doing that. The people who actually do should get a ban and really are only in it for the money, but believe me that is the minority :)
@lekoo23 Some horses do die but that's the course, i myself think many more saftey regulations should be put in place to ensure the safety of horses, because when a horse dies on the track it's the worst thing that can happen my uncle didn't talk to anyone for a week, i'm trying to get a cross that the trainers, jockey, owners are not cruel to the horses if anything they treat them like royalty :)
@lekoo23 there are more horses every year that die because there owners abuse them and don't want them any more so they just leave them. Maybe people who think racing is cruel should focus more on that?
@poochgal592 all im saying is that the risk in racing it too high! when u take 2 and 3 year olds who's growth plates are not closed yet, and make tham run as fast as their thin little legs can possibly carry them, crammed togther with a bunch of other horses, u are aking 4 a broken leg. Honostly, its a miracle any of them make it 2 the finish line.
@lekoo23 It really has the same risks as quite alot of sports, i am not attacking you personaly but i looked on your page and what makes you think a horse wants to run round barrels? There is acctualy quite alot of injuries in this sport. You guys make horses go round corners with alot of sppeed and the often slip and in some casses even the riders can be seriously hurt.
@poochgal592 1st of all, barrel horses wear splint boots and most racehorses dont. 2nd of all we dnt race 2 year olds. 3rd we put months of work into training propper form to prevent injury, racehorses r only tought 2 run headlong and strung out as fast as they can. 4th barrel horses love their job. they willingly go into an empty arena all alone, most of them know the pattern by heart because they love it so much, racehorses only run because the bell scares tham and cuz the other horses r runin
@lekoo23 1 we do so much more training than you probably do 2 weeven work on ther strides so they get the right take of when they jump, so they land and don't hurt themselves 3 race horses love there job th ones we have when they are in there paddock, they race eachother even if they are not in the same fields they race eachother by the fence if they didn't like it they would NOT run 4 if the bell scared them they certainly would NOT run the whole track
@lekoo23if you type in big brown 2008 kentucky derby winer and go onto the first one at 2 50 you see him runing playfuly, ther is others of ex racehorses to. you make horses turn sharp corners at high speed and on the straight you kik em on most of the time wit spurs to make em go faster, you are trying to defend you sport now cos tink there is nothing wrong wit it i know there not abused. im sayin i no lots more about this sport than u an i can tel you its not cruel like you know more on barels
@poochgal592 Oh yea, i bet a lot of extensive training goes in2 those horses between teh time they r big enough 2 ride n when they start racing at 2 or younger. There is HUGE difference between horses playing or even "racing" 2gether in pasture and a bunch of horses flying down a track rite on top of 1 another. FYI I dne wear spurs and those horses wil turn a barrel anytime u go anywhere neer one even if u knt mean 4 them 2.
@lekoo23 Oh they turn barrels of there own will? Lol you do realise how childish you sound, if these horses didn't want you to do something i know dam well they wouldn't they are powerful creatures and they like barrel horses DO like what they do, and before you go all 'oh they are made to, they are playing in pastures' Think, could a man really make a 1200 pound animal do what they want them to do, they like it. And yes alot of training is done and they only raise when 2 or older lol
@poochgal592 im not saying they dnt enjoy running, im just saying there r parts of the rcetrack environment that frighten them. the point is that they race them at 2 and 3 when their growth plated dnt close antill they r 5 to 6. Do u know what that means?? LOL!! The risk it 2 high!!
@lekoo23 Hahahaha yes i do know what that means, i just don't think you are getting what i mean, no part of the racetrack scares the horse, we make sure of that before the horse goes to the race other wise it would NOT run its full potential.
@lekoo23 quite honestly, I don't think you know what you're talking about. I'm saying this to @poochgal592 as well. If you both talked with correct grammar, and used some actually correct statements, you wouldn't look so immature. I do three day eventing, and I promise, if a horse doesn't want to do something, it won't. You're each defending a high-risk sport, anything with horses is high-risk. And unfortunately, there are large amounts of abuse in each. Now grow up, get your facts straight,
One I hadn't seen!!! Wow! That would suck. I would be soooo depressed if that happened to me! LOL talk about an Inquiry! That makes NM racing look flawless.
I have to wondder though just how far in front of them jockys actually do look...in this case it cant be more than 50 yards...all they had to do wqas open the salls doors on both sides and they could have run through them...problem solved..
Um, seriously? That'd be a disaster waiting to happen... they'd have to *perfectly* get to the gate, which is only wide enough for them to STAND in... a few millimeters off and there's a huge disaster
@perfectmillion You dont think they dont know and we dont know that it could have been a disaster? The jockeys did great and go tthe horses safe. I am very proud of all of them and the horses for not acting up!
Look up the GRAND NATIONAL that never was. Uk National some years ago had 2 false starts and on the third time of asking that to was a false start...most of the horses though carried on and completed the whole national course only to be told that it was a no race...Now thats cruel.
Most callers are looking through binoculars so that they can call the leaders accurately. So obviously they can't see what is going on all over the track.
do it!!skip school and become a track bum!!go through the garbage cans looking for winners and scratches.drink beer and bet on the horses.I love it personnaly.
most of the good jockeys dont hit the horses they have the expirance to get there horses up without useing the whip or just tapping it on the saddle blanket
Absolutely AWESOME job pulling up those horse by the jockeys, that was totally great! That's a lot of horse to pull up. Awesome, way to go guys/gals!!! :)
I think about that all the time. In fact, when I'm at the track I always watch the gate being towed away before I turn to focus on the race.
I don't blame the track announcer as much as others who work for the track. You would think someone would have noticed it and called it to the attention to the race caller.
Imagine what was going on with the spectators, particularly the ones in upper stretch. They had to see the problem and wonder how it would play out.
It has crossed my mind before when watching live at my home track, "What would happen if the tractor gave out, and they couldn't move the gate." Just one of those odd things that cross my mind from time to time.
I agree about the track announcer.. The jockey's began pulling up and easing their mounts long before he even noticed.
You always wonder about that. Every race, when the gate's gonna end up in the middle of things, you've gotta wonder, what if they can't move that big hulking thing....Well, there you go, hehehe.
I had money in this race; my tickets were looking good and then "poof"--the racing powers that be had the last laugh. I got a refund but I had the horse in the lead and a stack of them behind him. I could taste it.
Disagree. When you're calling a race 400 yards away with binoculars, you're only going to see as far as the lead horse. No way would he have seen the gates.
My question is where was the clerk of the course? Should have rode to the 6 furlong mark and warned the field to pull up.
I'm wondering the same thing. I can recall an incident at Keeneland on the turf course that the race had to be stopped. All three outriders rode against the field telling the jockeys to pull up.
Also where was the backup tractor? Most major racetracks have a backup with a tow chain for such an incident.
Yeah almost all the horses had pulled up by the time he noticed the gate. I knew something was up by the way they were slowing down he should have noticed.
Back in the day. Oaklawn used Clydesdales to pull all of there gates around. They stopped using them when the gate got stuck during a race and the Clydedales couldent pull it across the track. It just so happens that it was in the same spot as this one. I know becuase I was there. When the gate got stuck (it was muddy) a bunch of us jumped the wall and helped push it across avoiding what happed in this race. A no race. It was like pushing a car through the snow.
That was really funny. xD I love the announcer - Calvin Borel had Richwood Silver down to a canter and he was still going, "And Richwood Silver is in front..." as if he didn't notice the gate. Which apparently he didn't.
Pretty funny stuff.
Lucky Borel warned the other riders, though... there could have been a serious pileup there.
He might have still been looking through his binoculars, which is why he missed the gate being right in front of him. Announcers miss the most amazing things for that reason.
LOL!! thats true.. i'm suprise that the track announcer didn't realise until the horses started to pull up lol.. thats funny.. thank god nobody was hurt!
Oh, and that gate still up, must have cost a lot of time and must have really SUCKED. Poor jockeys :-(
PasoFinoLover21 2 weeks ago
@poochgal592 don't u DARE dis barrel racing! I'm learingto now, and the horse I ride is a barrel racer and I'm just learining. Trouble, the horse, loves running the barrels and you can feel all of the excitment under her. Horses love it and there are many precautions taken like the rider is usually traned well before they start and there's usually lots of troting or even just circling first. They also check to make sure the sand wnt be slippery. It may be a little risky, but all are, even racing
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sasa2465 2 months ago
ok I just read some of the comments. It stinks that I cant watch a horse racing video without someone acting like babies and fighting over it. That goes for both sides of the argument.
LopeForestLope 3 months ago
nice. So how did they place that race? good job to the jockies. That couldve been bad.
LopeForestLope 3 months ago
@LopeForestLope I don't think the race was even considered haha nobody won, nobody lost.
futurejockey8 3 months ago
Even though they had to be slowed down, that one jockey let his horse win :3
HatashiLuvsU 4 months ago
That's why horses will always be better then machines. You would have that problem with a couple of draft horses.
Butla93 5 months ago
@Butla93 don't you mean machines will always be better than horses? lol Your second sentence contradicts the first.
futurejockey8 3 months ago
@futurejockey8 haha yup that was supposed to be wouldn't lol
Butla93 3 months ago
nice job Borel!!!! you never disappoint!!
greatbigbubby 5 months ago
Nice.
NicoleAndBandit 6 months ago
Good commentator.... he didnt have a fucking clue
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kajamix 7 months ago
aptly, it was "double martini" who was going to win that race.
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BigRon7 8 months ago
lol 2:03 Hold all tickets.......ya think!!
4ween4 9 months ago
here in Mauritius,we can use tractors and also we can push the gates to move it away from the pitch
Yudhishdriftking 9 months ago
Pft I watched that race.
XoDonutxBreyeroX 9 months ago
Also the horses are so well looked after by their jockeys/trainers. Have you ever heard of the great race horse barbaro, he had an amazing winning streak and his rider pulled him away from a race because he new something was wrong. Even that shows that they are NOT in it just for the money.
poochgal592 9 months ago
the gate is still in the way lol
myhorseroxursoxoff 10 months ago
So would that one horse still be considered the winner? Or would they refund tickets??
LightingInvoker 10 months ago
@LightingInvoker Refund tickets, they count it as a no race.(:
XoDonutxBreyeroX 9 months ago
I really loved the bit that wasn't even in the slightest bit interesting or funny
phillyvinilli 10 months ago
well that a great training run LOL
NicanorBarbaroLover 11 months ago 2
@NicanorBarbaroLover hahahahhahahaha yep thats one way of putting it.
dkingjimmy 11 months ago
@NicanorBarbaroLover haha yeahh it was a good brez they will be fit for the next race
jamesskater100 11 months ago
Everytime I'm at Keeneland and they start a race on the front stretch, I always go "what would happen if they didn't get the gate out of the way?". Now I know.
tybo09 1 year ago
awesomew!xd
ENZOSH1 1 year ago
Gotta love the guy who sped up after he passed the gate...
EventingLove27 1 year ago
Does the racecount??? If youre that stupid,then dont watch horse racing
bigtimcny 1 year ago
@bigtimcny No, it was declared a no contest because of the mishap with the gate, so no one won, no one lost.
ffalcons102 1 year ago
the connections to these horses must have been ELATED in anger.
did they get their entrance fee back? hell i woould have filed suit against the track.
its not these horses can jus re run again after the tractors fixed.
i mean this is a big no no in horse racing. not only are the owners owed the entrance fee, but compensated for all the money it took for these horses to train up to this race
sedro32 1 year ago 2
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Jockeys did a great job!!
luvolife01 1 year ago
Jockeys did a great job!!!
luvolife01 1 year ago 10
what an announcer. call it to the end man.haha
tobybirdmann 1 year ago 6
nas
sultan1233666 1 year ago
@Chut619 and Crockjock--the race would be declared a "no contest" and all wagers would be returned.
I assume the jockeys would still be paid their mount fees.
LauraJdogmom 1 year ago
I would be so mad if I was Borel...... he was leading practically the whole time just to get passed up while trying to warn the other jockeys...... did that race count???
Chut619 1 year ago
It's funny how he keeps calling the race even when they are pulling up. lol
frankovich213 1 year ago 3
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ianwuz123 1 year ago
I bet num. 7 would dominate sprint.
huxyluver 1 year ago
So, did the race stand? Did anyone earn money. What did they do?
crockjock 1 year ago
@crockjock Races like this would be declared a "no contest," now I'm not sure about Oaklawn but every place I've raced would divide the purse money equally amongst all of the starters.
WellConditioned 1 year ago
cool
jockeygirl555 1 year ago
why do the horses always have wierd names?
ButtRush39 1 year ago
What a good rider Calvin is! Complete control of his horse, and able to let everyone know to stop...or turn.
vikidobe 1 year ago 3
Awe that must really suck cause that just completly messed up there training schedual, poor guys lol.
Sami13p 1 year ago
i <3 horses
justinbiebergirl6565 1 year ago
@iekoo23 Im not tring to start a fight or anything in that manner. in a way i do understand where youre coming from. alot of people in this sport look at it as profit, and see dollar bills when they look at these animals. I absolutly despise these peopie, and have to look at thses people every day. so i do agree wit you sum wat,but not EVERY person is like that, my mom loves her horses. see them every day treats her horses like her very own life lives within dem..
richcitykid4 1 year ago
Saw your vid. Bravo, got your horse to jump 2 feet over a broom handle. Makes ya an expert. Well done. Opinions r like bum holes, everyone, has one. I agree with cadddyyyxO, the worst mistake U make is U think what U think U see. Come with me one day to a race track and learn. I'm still healing from a track accident 2 years ago. The horse walked away . But I didn't. Because I gave every bone, muscle and brain cell to help it. If ignorance is bliss, you must be very happy.
rg184511 1 year ago
racehorses sometimes end up doing something esle whe they done racing
my riding school had serval ex-racers for the studenets
In fact I ride one of them a beautifull brown mare named Jodie
TheHorseGames 1 year ago
"lekoo23"...... I see you failed to watch the video cause if u had, u just might have learned something and you surely wouldn't be here still flapping your trap about how u dislike horse racing. If u hate it so much, why do u continue to come here and complain. Stick to the show ring with your horse sense, cause thats where it belongs....."Jagar"
ausfuhrpramienjagar 1 year ago
Just because I hate the sport does not mean that I hate the horses. I care about the horses, and I hate seeing them beeing put in danger!
lekoo23 1 year ago
wow good call calvin! that could have been ugly =] Good for Calvin watching out for his fellow riders
HorsecrazyZukoFan 1 year ago
Perhaps since you are on YouTube you need to type in your search bar... "Racehorse Welfare & Safety"... By BCWorldChampionship.. This 4 minute video will do you good!....Listen very carefully and you just may learn something. This is an everyday occurance that happens on the "backside", I know....."Jagar"
ausfuhrpramienjagar 1 year ago
BigLicker76, First off i am not a member of PETA, nor will I ever be. Secondly, Watch your language. Act like an adult. Racing is dangerous, and causes MANY fatal accidents. Ask any decient horseman and %1000 of them will agree with me!
lekoo23 1 year ago
Apparently you have tunnel vision of the brain! You contradict yourself immensly when it comes to your posts. Any decent horsemen will agree with you..lol what a laugh! Now u are really showing ur intelligence. Yeah, horse racing is dangerous, so is boxing, auto racing, hockey, football and many other sports. Professional atheletes are killed in those sports as well.. So, should we ban all them too.. haha. Give me a break dude! Do your homework before flapping your trap anymore......"Jagar"
ausfuhrpramienjagar 1 year ago
@ausfuhrpramienjagar No, I would not bann those sperts, and I will tell you why. People playing those sports have the ability to understand the risk of playing those sports, and make the decision to take or not to take that chance. Horses do not have a human brain, therefore they do not have the ability to understand the risk at hand, nor are they given the choice to race or not to race. Just for the record, I hear of MANY more fatalities in horse racing than any human sport.
lekoo23 1 year ago
syncs perfectly with running in the 90's.
MolotovRooster 2 years ago
I consider you a foolish PETA member! You need to do some serious studying before you open your misinformed mouth about horse racing. It's the most safety concious, animal sport there is.. The horses are checked at least twice on race day by the track vet, even before they make it to the starting gate. Horses are checked for performance enhancing drugs in every race, so there goes your drug theory out the window! Injuries occur in all sports, horse racing included, so whats your point? Jagar
ausfuhrpramienjagar 2 years ago
Actually, some types of drugs are liegal in racing. I am not PETA. And if it was so safety conscious, why would thay keep doing it even though herses repeatedly are injured and killed? Even perfectly healthy horses break a leg and have 2 b put down ALL OF THE TIME! So shut your trap. I wasn't asking for your response!
lekoo23 1 year ago
actually, a lot of the horses that break down on the track are rehabilitated and are placed into good homes. why don't you take the time to learn about the sport before you talk sit about it.
cadddyyyxO 1 year ago
some but not most, and they are never quite the same after the accident. I actually know quite allot about the sport, and I greatly dislike it!
lekoo23 1 year ago
yes, but i'm actually involved in the sport. yes, it's dangerous to both horse and rider, but so is any other style of riding. i've seen countless horses break down due to jumping.
cadddyyyxO 1 year ago
Yes it does happen in jumping and other sports, but it happens 100x more in raceing. I think that anyone envolven in racing is just money hungry and does not care about the animals. Race horse people are a pathetic excuse for horse people.
lekoo23 1 year ago
like i said before, learn about the sport before you judge it. while you're at it, maybe learn how to spell.=]
cadddyyyxO 1 year ago
I know plenty about the sport, and my spelling is really not the point
lekoo23 1 year ago
and duck. This guy is a brainless shite disturber. Never get into a pissing contest with a skunk, or a hisser with a snake.
Now I go after him.
rg184511 1 year ago
@lekoo23 GO to the race track one day and see what people do for these horses. They get up at four in the morning and leave at about five unless its a race day then thay leave at about 11 or 12 AT NIGHT!! And it dosent matter what you do to try to stop racing there are alot more people who know racing and love it not for the money andacually horsess love racing why would secretarite run and win by 31 lenghts if he dident want to run and why dont yuu try to make a 1000 pound horse to run
jamesskater100 11 months ago
@jamesskater100 pitbulls used 4 fighting get pampered b4 the fight. they only do it 2 improve performance. they dnt care about the horses, just the money. horses r prey animals, they run like hell when they r scared. i never said that they dont enjoy running, but that dsnt make it any less dangerous. more horses get injured in raceing than in any other equestrian sport.
lekoo23 11 months ago
Copy that. I've many times put my shoulder under an injured and tried to lift 1000 lbs. off an injured limb until the horse ambulance (the bus) arrives. Loose the girth so they can breath deep and keep them calm. Last time U had a deep body smack, it was all about deep breaths, no doubt about. I've been off, as a kid.
rg184511 1 year ago
I know nothing happened in this video , but seriously, horse racing is so stupid. It is dangerous and unethical. Giving animals steroids is discusting! Also horses are constantly getting injured on the track and sometimes have to be put down. Also, the racing industry is overbreeding race horses and running out of space for them so they are euthanizing thousands of perfectly healthy horses because they dont have room for all of them. I considder horse racing animal cruelty!
lekoo23 2 years ago
@lekoo23 shut the hell up stupid pansy ass....I'm so sick and tired of you peta idiots... the world would be a much better place without any of you..
BigLicker76 1 year ago
@lekoo23 H horse racing isn't cruel, infact i don't even think you understand it, do you own any racehorses/ex- racehorses? I own alot of ex racers and trust me they really love to run. Infact i end up going home with sore arms because they are pulling on the reins to go faster. These animals love to run. And yes some of them are involved in accidents but if the horse didn't want to race do you really think a man could make it? It would just buck him off.
poochgal592 9 months ago
@poochgal592 no, i do not own racehorses, but i have probably worked with many more than u! they run because they r so neurotic from doing nothing but that. horses r flight animals darling. they run whan they r scared. im not saying horses dont naturally want 2 run, im saying racing is dangerous and sometimes unkind 2 the horses. if u think that a sport is worth such a high risk 4 a living creature, than u have no compassion and no conscience.
lekoo23 9 months ago
@lekoo23 You have worked with many more? Really though lol. My uncle breeds racehorses so i am one of the people who actualy help look after them. Yes there are many risks in it but that is the courses fault not the actual race itself. I believe that they should take more saftey procedures on it because there are so many accidents but it isn't cruelty to the animal.
poochgal592 9 months ago
@lekoo23 Also When we get the new foals we make sure that if they do not go into racing that the person we are selling to has a good background and we even go to where they will be keeping the horse. We would never put them to slaughter and we know that the majority of trainers wouldn't even think of doing that. The people who actually do should get a ban and really are only in it for the money, but believe me that is the minority :)
poochgal592 9 months ago
@poochgal592 i dont remember saying that they went 2 slaughter. i siad a lot of them get killed
lekoo23 9 months ago
@lekoo23 Some horses do die but that's the course, i myself think many more saftey regulations should be put in place to ensure the safety of horses, because when a horse dies on the track it's the worst thing that can happen my uncle didn't talk to anyone for a week, i'm trying to get a cross that the trainers, jockey, owners are not cruel to the horses if anything they treat them like royalty :)
poochgal592 9 months ago
@lekoo23 there are more horses every year that die because there owners abuse them and don't want them any more so they just leave them. Maybe people who think racing is cruel should focus more on that?
poochgal592 9 months ago
@poochgal592 all im saying is that the risk in racing it too high! when u take 2 and 3 year olds who's growth plates are not closed yet, and make tham run as fast as their thin little legs can possibly carry them, crammed togther with a bunch of other horses, u are aking 4 a broken leg. Honostly, its a miracle any of them make it 2 the finish line.
lekoo23 9 months ago
@lekoo23 It really has the same risks as quite alot of sports, i am not attacking you personaly but i looked on your page and what makes you think a horse wants to run round barrels? There is acctualy quite alot of injuries in this sport. You guys make horses go round corners with alot of sppeed and the often slip and in some casses even the riders can be seriously hurt.
poochgal592 9 months ago
@poochgal592 1st of all, barrel horses wear splint boots and most racehorses dont. 2nd of all we dnt race 2 year olds. 3rd we put months of work into training propper form to prevent injury, racehorses r only tought 2 run headlong and strung out as fast as they can. 4th barrel horses love their job. they willingly go into an empty arena all alone, most of them know the pattern by heart because they love it so much, racehorses only run because the bell scares tham and cuz the other horses r runin
lekoo23 9 months ago
@lekoo23 1 we do so much more training than you probably do 2 weeven work on ther strides so they get the right take of when they jump, so they land and don't hurt themselves 3 race horses love there job th ones we have when they are in there paddock, they race eachother even if they are not in the same fields they race eachother by the fence if they didn't like it they would NOT run 4 if the bell scared them they certainly would NOT run the whole track
poochgal592 9 months ago
@lekoo23if you type in big brown 2008 kentucky derby winer and go onto the first one at 2 50 you see him runing playfuly, ther is others of ex racehorses to. you make horses turn sharp corners at high speed and on the straight you kik em on most of the time wit spurs to make em go faster, you are trying to defend you sport now cos tink there is nothing wrong wit it i know there not abused. im sayin i no lots more about this sport than u an i can tel you its not cruel like you know more on barels
poochgal592 9 months ago
@poochgal592 Oh yea, i bet a lot of extensive training goes in2 those horses between teh time they r big enough 2 ride n when they start racing at 2 or younger. There is HUGE difference between horses playing or even "racing" 2gether in pasture and a bunch of horses flying down a track rite on top of 1 another. FYI I dne wear spurs and those horses wil turn a barrel anytime u go anywhere neer one even if u knt mean 4 them 2.
lekoo23 9 months ago
@lekoo23 Oh they turn barrels of there own will? Lol you do realise how childish you sound, if these horses didn't want you to do something i know dam well they wouldn't they are powerful creatures and they like barrel horses DO like what they do, and before you go all 'oh they are made to, they are playing in pastures' Think, could a man really make a 1200 pound animal do what they want them to do, they like it. And yes alot of training is done and they only raise when 2 or older lol
poochgal592 9 months ago
@poochgal592 im not saying they dnt enjoy running, im just saying there r parts of the rcetrack environment that frighten them. the point is that they race them at 2 and 3 when their growth plated dnt close antill they r 5 to 6. Do u know what that means?? LOL!! The risk it 2 high!!
lekoo23 9 months ago
@lekoo23 Hahahaha yes i do know what that means, i just don't think you are getting what i mean, no part of the racetrack scares the horse, we make sure of that before the horse goes to the race other wise it would NOT run its full potential.
poochgal592 9 months ago
@lekoo23 quite honestly, I don't think you know what you're talking about. I'm saying this to @poochgal592 as well. If you both talked with correct grammar, and used some actually correct statements, you wouldn't look so immature. I do three day eventing, and I promise, if a horse doesn't want to do something, it won't. You're each defending a high-risk sport, anything with horses is high-risk. And unfortunately, there are large amounts of abuse in each. Now grow up, get your facts straight,
EventingLove27 6 months ago
@EventingLove27 and stop arguing like children. This video was not put up to debate horse racing. It was to show what a great job these jockeys did.
EventingLove27 6 months ago
@lekoo23 You are a moron. You don't know shit about horses. Please, save your idiotic comments to yourself.
joshb729 9 months ago
@joshb729 if u only knew how childish u sound
lekoo23 9 months ago
ROFL!!! Wow thats one I haven't seen!
bbs805 2 years ago
One I hadn't seen!!! Wow! That would suck. I would be soooo depressed if that happened to me! LOL talk about an Inquiry! That makes NM racing look flawless.
playinginamist 2 years ago
@psrw, are you kidding!! Do you know how dangerous that could be!!?
21Sarabi 2 years ago
thats crazy! that race should be a do over! no one could of one. everyone pulled up.
good job Calvin
SamiThePsycho 2 years ago
That's just plain crazy!
emmelby 2 years ago
hahahha
melissafew2 2 years ago
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I have to wondder though just how far in front of them jockys actually do look...in this case it cant be more than 50 yards...all they had to do wqas open the salls doors on both sides and they could have run through them...problem solved..
psrw7952 2 years ago
Um, seriously? That'd be a disaster waiting to happen... they'd have to *perfectly* get to the gate, which is only wide enough for them to STAND in... a few millimeters off and there's a huge disaster
perfectmillion 2 years ago 15
@perfectmillion You dont think they dont know and we dont know that it could have been a disaster? The jockeys did great and go tthe horses safe. I am very proud of all of them and the horses for not acting up!
Militarylove2012 7 months ago 2
Yeah, bad idea. You're just risking injury to horse and rider both.
sableghost 2 years ago
How do you call stadions where happens the horse race?
archis84 2 years ago
I just know them as race tracks. :)
sableghost 2 years ago
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The names of the horses are ridiculous lol. Sounds more like Pornstars then horses. LMFAO
MrIbiza07 2 years ago
Look up the GRAND NATIONAL that never was. Uk National some years ago had 2 false starts and on the third time of asking that to was a false start...most of the horses though carried on and completed the whole national course only to be told that it was a no race...Now thats cruel.
psrw7952 2 years ago
Terry Wallace was the last to know...
rstp354 2 years ago
Well done to the jockey on the leader, did a nice job of telling the other jockeys, could have been nasty if he didn't.
allen982 2 years ago
that's exactly what i thought watching this!
inheavenof 2 years ago
I always wondered if this ever happened and
this is the first one I have seen.
JettRink50 2 years ago
What's that trumpet tune they play when a race starts or something like that? I'm trying to find out who plays that.
Quakelord1991 2 years ago
That's the call to post. That's played by various buglers on differnt tracks.
newstarcadefan 2 years ago
"call to the post" is played by all different buglers. each track usually has it's own bugler.
cadddyyyxO 1 year ago
Or a tape. Get 'em girl.
rg184511 1 year ago
where was the back up trailer?
Horsiegirl913 2 years ago
wesmoskalski, they hate you too.
ashado19 2 years ago 5
2 wold of won
TheOg143 2 years ago
It's called a "no contest" and all bettors get their momey back.
grgoldner 2 years ago
Feel sorry for the poor horses, having to run all that way so hard just for it not to count. Least it didn't end too badly.
DrPepperandOreos 2 years ago 3
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i freekin hate horses.
wesmoskalski 2 years ago
What do they do in a situation like that? Call it a non-race and give the folks the money back?
dablommer 2 years ago
that's a bad mistake to make with SO much money on the line.
muthrukdarl 2 years ago 2
They were lucky to pull out of that as well as they did.
ewd76 2 years ago
WTF??!! Incompetents.. (the people)! This makes and breaks careers!
Ruffiansea 2 years ago
they didnt count it.
horsebreedingfan2 2 years ago
OMG, that was so dissapointing
ponytales2001 2 years ago
lol @ the camera stopping at the finish line like the race results existed.
brothaman007 2 years ago
I think that race was totally thrown out. I think the tractor had a stuck parking brake and the pull off wouldn't start. How unfortunate.
seniorbaylindo 2 years ago 4
An oblivious race caller. Big surprise.
While their Internet audience at home (95% of their audience) is watching the technological equivalent of crappy early 1950's broadcasting -
They brainlessly assume that it's the same quality as network TV.
Race callers and local TV news blowdrys = dead heat IQs.
7855waldo 2 years ago
Most callers are looking through binoculars so that they can call the leaders accurately. So obviously they can't see what is going on all over the track.
fiona3637 2 years ago 3
Can u imagine this at the Derby? "hold all tickets"
boz987 2 years ago 5
the commentator was shocked. he didnt know what to say when the horses was eased up so there was a moment of silence lol
babba5 2 years ago
so did they count it?
lilkav95 2 years ago
haha they did a good job easing up the horses, and it was good that Borel told the other jockeys ahead of time
very unusual ending :)
8livelovelaughRide8 3 years ago 5
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Only in America. Disgraceful racecaller as well, not to mention that inside rail. Pathetic
sikmuz12 3 years ago
Dancing Fern is just gorgeous.
Good call by Borel...that could have been much worse.
ridingxruffian 3 years ago 3
good job jockeys! must've been hard to pull up that amount of horse in a short time!
Duke9Rocks99 3 years ago 4
I wish I could skip school to go to thursday races! Our horses run friday, saturday, sundays though! Love Oaklawn!
StormValleyStables 3 years ago
do it!!skip school and become a track bum!!go through the garbage cans looking for winners and scratches.drink beer and bet on the horses.I love it personnaly.
BetePete 3 years ago
no, I only go when we have horses in.
StormValleyStables 3 years ago 4
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aww thats sad! the jockey in the lead pulled up his horse to warn everybody behind him, costing him the race!
VegHead94 3 years ago
LOL!
Virtie333 3 years ago
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wow great race i wish ican actullay go to one. the only thing i dont like bout horse racing is the whips and wen they fall
kesakat235 3 years ago
most of the good jockeys dont hit the horses they have the expirance to get there horses up without useing the whip or just tapping it on the saddle blanket
all4pharlap 3 years ago 3
If you don't like whips, you don't like the vast majority of horse sports.
carlykaiser 3 years ago 3
Absolutely AWESOME job pulling up those horse by the jockeys, that was totally great! That's a lot of horse to pull up. Awesome, way to go guys/gals!!! :)
greatdane83 3 years ago 18
@greatdane83 I agree, I am glad that no one got hurt! It was a nice, clean pull up.
huxyluver 1 year ago
Here comes Apple Martini..... and the gate is still in the way!! lol classic
TodgeAFL 3 years ago
"Hold all tickets."
Did they redo the race?
It's just bad luck.. Could happen. Poor jockeys though.
DeVerhevenEland 3 years ago
Most likely the judges ruled a "no contest" and a general refund on all tickets... the same with major accidents/outside interference
boomjustlikethat 3 years ago
I've often wondered.
Now I've seen.
Thank you for posting and explaining.
NebulizerChi 3 years ago
I think about that all the time. In fact, when I'm at the track I always watch the gate being towed away before I turn to focus on the race.
I don't blame the track announcer as much as others who work for the track. You would think someone would have noticed it and called it to the attention to the race caller.
Imagine what was going on with the spectators, particularly the ones in upper stretch. They had to see the problem and wonder how it would play out.
AwsiDooger 3 years ago
It has crossed my mind before when watching live at my home track, "What would happen if the tractor gave out, and they couldn't move the gate." Just one of those odd things that cross my mind from time to time.
I agree about the track announcer.. The jockey's began pulling up and easing their mounts long before he even noticed.
Temperalles 3 years ago
You always wonder about that. Every race, when the gate's gonna end up in the middle of things, you've gotta wonder, what if they can't move that big hulking thing....Well, there you go, hehehe.
SammieSpitz 3 years ago
I had money in this race; my tickets were looking good and then "poof"--the racing powers that be had the last laugh. I got a refund but I had the horse in the lead and a stack of them behind him. I could taste it.
placeinheaven 3 years ago
you think that made you sick, I am the assitant trainer for that horse and I ride her....how would you like that?
cdevaux06 3 years ago
Yeah Calvin Borel, savoir of the day. What a scary video.
thespa77 3 years ago
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Epic Fail by the track announcer.
Surely he should have noticed when they made the top of the stretch!
flatonia 3 years ago
Disagree. When you're calling a race 400 yards away with binoculars, you're only going to see as far as the lead horse. No way would he have seen the gates.
My question is where was the clerk of the course? Should have rode to the 6 furlong mark and warned the field to pull up.
westdog54 3 years ago 3
I'm wondering the same thing. I can recall an incident at Keeneland on the turf course that the race had to be stopped. All three outriders rode against the field telling the jockeys to pull up.
Also where was the backup tractor? Most major racetracks have a backup with a tow chain for such an incident.
Icebreaker1979 2 years ago 2
lmaooo!!
wow what idiots!! rofl!!
XxJakexAlyssaxX 3 years ago
Yes.
Clearly, because the tractor wouldn't work
carlykaiser 3 years ago
his voice pisses me off
leroy450 3 years ago
you mean the track announcer's voice?
joelsterling 3 years ago
Yeah almost all the horses had pulled up by the time he noticed the gate. I knew something was up by the way they were slowing down he should have noticed.
Sjvanderwey 3 years ago
and I really like that the inquiry sign comes up at the end... that's really funny... it's like, duh, of course there's an inquiry.
kmnmiamisax 3 years ago 2
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well some people at traks are VERY stupid. Or drunk.
StormValleyStables 3 years ago
thank god everyone was ok! that could have been disasterous! Great thinking by Calvin... he's a really great class act sort of a guy.
kmnmiamisax 3 years ago 3
Back in the day. Oaklawn used Clydesdales to pull all of there gates around. They stopped using them when the gate got stuck during a race and the Clydedales couldent pull it across the track. It just so happens that it was in the same spot as this one. I know becuase I was there. When the gate got stuck (it was muddy) a bunch of us jumped the wall and helped push it across avoiding what happed in this race. A no race. It was like pushing a car through the snow.
Hogswin5720 3 years ago 2
Looks like they needed you there. ;>
dahoss65 3 years ago
That was really funny. xD I love the announcer - Calvin Borel had Richwood Silver down to a canter and he was still going, "And Richwood Silver is in front..." as if he didn't notice the gate. Which apparently he didn't.
Pretty funny stuff.
Lucky Borel warned the other riders, though... there could have been a serious pileup there.
countrygal68 3 years ago 4
He might have still been looking through his binoculars, which is why he missed the gate being right in front of him. Announcers miss the most amazing things for that reason.
theonlygeoman 3 years ago 2
LOL!! thats true.. i'm suprise that the track announcer didn't realise until the horses started to pull up lol.. thats funny.. thank god nobody was hurt!
javaqwe 3 years ago