Hillary's Derby horse breaks both ankles and comes in 2nd!

On Joe Scarborough's MSNBC show "Morning Joe," Willie Geist has a segment called "News You Can't Use." On that segment Friday, May 2, 2008, he points that in one of Hillary's stump speeches, she asks people to bet on the female horse, "Eight Belles" in the 134th Kentucky Derby. Willie says, "Big Brown is the 3-1 favorite to win the first leg of the Triple Crown at Churchill Downs despite the fact he's starting way outside in the 20th position. Well Senator Hillary Clinton is not going with that favorite. She likes...get this...an upstart filly, who will fight to the very end."

Joe Scarborough says, "Boy how embarrassing if Eight Belles pulls up lame and they have to put her down."

Either Joe was just imaging the worst scenario for Hillary's metaphor or he has an ability to see into the future, because, the worst scenario became a reality. "The victory was overshadowed by an injury to Eight Belles, who broke both front ankles and was immediately euthanized after the race."

Big Brown was "the first horse to win from the 20 hole since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929"

This was only Big Brown's fourth race in his career!

Is this a bad Omen for Hillary or just a lame attempt to play the gender card that ended up being a parallel she will regret making. Do you think Joe Scarborough feels bad that he laughed about it even though it was before the race and the chances of that happening were extremely slim?

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[castleguardian]

give me one founded reason why mares or in this case fillies shouldn't race against colts? fillies can be just as fast if not faster than colts, it all depends on the horse. eight bells would have broken her ankles wether she was racing against colts or other fillies, it has nothing to do with the fact that she was racing the opposite sex...

[Paintmare06]

Eight Belles was a filly, not a mare. And most of the horses in the Derby are colts, not gelding. And why can't the fillies race the colts? Did you watch the 2007 Belmont Stakes?

[catfreak8008]

she broke down AFTER the race anyway, not during it...

[xlaura96]

Its a tragic fluke, what happened to her. But the thing is...she didn't snap her ankles because she was a filly racing against colts, its is the age. At that age, a horse has very little control over themselves, and unfortuanatly this happens very often with BOTH fillies and colts. I don't think that people should be racing horses that young at all, there not done growing yet at that age and even though they move so quickly, they are very fragile.. R.I.P baby girl :(

[ZenyattaFanatic911]

The reporters jynxed her

[Beatlegirl4eva]

Eight Belles beat all the boys except the one on steroids, in my mind Eight Belles would have one if Big Brown wasn`t on them.

[BackstretchUnderdog]

i think they shouldn't joke about a horse breaking down and dying. Have they not seen the pictures of her thrashing around wildly, trying to get up? Does the video of her crashing down to her knees, both ankles shattered, not somewhat hurt their cruel hearts? I'd spit on these kinds of people

[WesternChick101]

so sad most of the realy popular horses are well...........dead

because of brocken bones

[Swallowchllorox]

A few people out there may not know the difference between fillies/colts, mares/stallions/gelding. Fillies and colts are young horses, under 4. Fillies being female, colts being male.

At least Eight Bells was put down humanely. There are cases where horses who run 'too slow' are sold to meat men. Unfortunately, she injured herself but the bright side is that she didn't have the chance to be discarded for meat.

[CullenVampire1901]

at least she didnt have to suffer. she was such a strong filly no matter what people say. RIP eight bells. we love you

[dcooke1989]

well if you hate it so much why did you bother to watch this video?

[victizzle321]

i hate horse races! i think they should be banned! these poor horses die for nothing=( i cant even watch another race from what happened to barbaro=(