Some of you might remember this post from 2020 about a former star (Puxa Saco) landing in a kill pen. Toward the end of that post, I reproduced this tweet from prominent breeder Carrie Brogden:
“Has basically paid for our kids school, my house, etc.” As I wrote then, that about sums it up. The horse: a means to an end, a resource to be mined, an asset to be expended.
Well, Ms. Brogden is at it again. Lamenting what she felt was an unwarranted scratch last week at Horseshoe, Brogden tweeted:
A 2-year-old – a scared, anxious baby – as a “rat bastard.” Vile people. Vile industry.
And now she is on the board of directors for BloodHorse. I used to wonder why they called it BloodHorse…well this ‘sport’ has earned its name in blood. https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/279292/smith-brogden-join-tca-board-of-directors
What a disgusting name to call your horse. Low life.
Ah yes. The expressions of “love” that I often heard at the track: “rat”, “donkey”, and the oft heard, “I don’t give a shit where that piece of shit goes as long as they aren’t in MY barn anymore!” I can’t say I ever heard anyone say the horses are like family, but I did hear multiple times that they aren’t pets, or babies, and can’t be treated as such.
Carrie’s terms of endearment aren’t shocking to me, sadly. And, like it’s his fault he’s still a stallion?!
What a “squeaky clean” industry full of people just as “pure” as the driven snow. (Barf!)
They are so “clean” and “pure” that the backside track workers get blamed for urinating willy nilly in areas that allegedly cause “environmental” contamination to race horses in the test barn at the racetrack. Tsk! Tsk! It’s so “unfair” that a trainer and the owner of a racehorse should have to be penalized for any “wrongdoing” when they can pass the buck onto some random group of people (backside track workers) who shall remain nameless.
This is isn’t the first horse to put a woman’s children through college and the rest of it.
I’m sure this won’t be the last horse to put somebody through college and pay for their house and all that.