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Horse Racing?

Sunday, February 1st, 2009
x. Riley .x asked:


I have recently watched the movie “Pharlap” which was based ona true story. After finishing watching it, I realised that horse racing can be really cruel to the horses. I saw how hard they pushed the horse, made him sick, and how the crowd would ‘poison’ or hurt him if he lost or in fact even won a race. Does anyone agree with me? That horse racing is cruel?

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How long should a barrel racing horse compete for?

Sunday, September 28th, 2008
horse racing
Beth D asked:


My dad thinks its time for me to retire my horse but I think she can go till the end of the rodeo season. She is 5 and a half years old and has been racing for almost three years.

I have a younger horse in training right now, do you think I should compete on the new mare or the old one?

Sean

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Horse racing?

Thursday, September 4th, 2008
horse racing
barrel racer asked:


ok in the section “horse racing” on here…..the only thing people are asking is why people kill horses when they break their legs because of the breeders cup accident. theres like 20 questions that are asking that……are they just too stupid to scroll down and look at the other answers instead of asking it again, because their asking the same question their just going to get the same answers.

Jamie

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If it came up, would you vote to ban horse racing?

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
horse racing
Blacky~ ¡Soñando de Navidad! asked:


I personally love horse racing, but I have heard many people who are AVIDLY against it. If it came up as dog racing is, would you vote yes to banning it, or no?

Allen

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Can someone tell me what SI means in Horse Racing?

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
horse racing
KJ asked:


I need a detailed explanation, so if you don’t know, please don’t answer. I would like to know when it says : “out of a SI.89 mare” or “her mother is SI.105″ what that means. On a racing report I’m looking at, I see a column that says Sp. In. and the highest number (85) is the horse that won. So my guess is that it means “Speed Index”, but does that mean the horse with a SI.105 is WAY faster than the one with SI.85? Or does it differ race to race, depending on distance, track conditions, etc?

If you read a description of an ad for a horse for sale, and it said : “her mother is SI.105″ would that mean the horse has racing potential (it’s a yearling horse)?

If you could please shed some light on this, it would be much appreciated.

Also, what does “wire to wire, just up” mean? That she ran ahead of the rest the entire race?

Thanks in advance for any educated answers you can give me!
Thanks for the answers so far! I was looking at these colts for sale, and have been contacting the seller, and wanted to know what the terms meant that she was sending me. What do you think of these horses?
http://www.liverystable.net/index.php?a=2&b=484
http://www.liverystable.net/index.php?a=2&b=403

Lorraine

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