By now the entire world has heard the biggest upset in Horse Racing history!  I normally am not interested in horse racing, I love the animals but have never ridden one.  He's not a gambler when it comes to that type of sport (it is a sport right?) but my hubby loves them and he enjoys following the races now and again and have worked with horses in a previous life! 

These television people really knows how to drag things out, first the race was supposed to be shown live at 3pm, then that 3pm turned into 5pm, and at 5pm, still no racing!  The amount of commercial and crap that goes on in between just so they can make money is appalling!  I had to get that off my chest, because we had to wait a long while for my hubby to tear himself away from the television set on Saturday!

Anyway, the race started, Big Brown was running well, and then all of a sudden here comes another horse, Da'Tara, stealing his thunder?!!!!  How did that happen?  Well, that's the gazillion dollar question that is being asked around the racing circle!!!!

The Veterinarians have been interviewed, the owners, the jockey, just about everyone and/or anything that had anything to do with Big Brown!  Now he's lost his favor and has sank to an all time loss.  The poor horse!

My hubby said it's a fix.  When they showed the replay of the horses coming around the bend, that pivotal point where Big Brown would get into his own and take off into that stretch, as he has done before, it didn't happen!  Why, was my wonder?  My hubby pointed out to me, "see what they did"?  I said "No."  They, the other jockeys, hustled him, used their horses to block Big Brown, jostled him and throw him off!  That gave the other horse, Da'Tara free reign to take over and win the race! 

I looked at him and said, "What?!!"  He nodded his head knowingly. he's seen it happened before, having been around the race track and dealt with horses, in Jamaica.  The jockeys did it!  You can't see it from the distance, but the replay of the tape from behind, you could see when it happened!  Wow!    The bums, they didn't want him to win?!  

Big Brown wasn't hurt, ill or in any way incapacitated (thank heavens) but for sure, something hindered him, and I'm agreeing with my hubby on this one!

Now the newshounds are on his tail, and the poor horse has lost favor with the masses!  Not with me though, if you were my horsey Big Brown, you would still get your carrots and I would give you a big horsey hug!

[disclaimer - these are all my free opinions, take it or leave it! : ) ]