Sorry, but am I the only one who couldn't give a rat's ass what happens to Bartbaro??

[Cameron]

Yeah I know I'm a cold heartless bastard but this is the basement after all and I am genuinely curious if I am the only one who just doesn't give a shit about a stupid horse. OK so it's a FAST horse you say. Ummmm....Hmmmmmm... nope still don't care! These reports of people putting signs up at the hospital where it's staying wishing it well just make me laugh. It is a horse for Christ's sake it can't read, just stop it already!!!!!!

[jaypasco]

what a low life you are

[Luckyluciano]

Originally Posted by jaypasco

what a low life you are

Agreed

[guzzi]

cann whistle dixie tho...

[ZIGGYSTARDUST]

Felt bad for Mr Ed..... but then he could talk...... Lost ZERO sleep for Bartbaro got enough REAL LIFE problems.... Could give a rats ass about some horse.... People who wasted their time taking signs out for this HORSE should get a life and do something good for MANKIND like being a Big Brother or Food Bank donor for a fellow HUMAN... Found it troubling that a HORSE causes such emotion and monetary drain but starving kids across the US cannot get like wise coverage in the news... ITS A FREAKING HORSE....

[jonnyblaze]

It is a horse for Christ's sake it can't read, just stop it already!!!!!!

I think the people with the signs know that.

The horse has $100,000 stud fees, which makes doesnt exactly make him a "supid horse" but rather a multi-million dollar commodity.

[Pudge]

Originally Posted by jonnyblaze

I think the people with the signs know that.

The horse has $100,000 stud fees, which makes doesnt exactly make him a "supid horse" but rather a multi-million dollar commodity.

But hes got week bones

[jonnyblaze]

As long as he got strong sperm, thats all they care about now big guy.

[Pudge]

Last I heard he had 50/50 chance of surviving does any one know an update?

[ZIGGYSTARDUST]

60% chance of being a STUD //// 40 % chance that he will be on my local supermarket shelf as GLUE...

[Trossi3389]

Originally Posted by Cameron

Yeah I know I'm a cold heartless bastard but this is the basement after all and I am genuinely curious if I am the only one who just doesn't give a shit about a stupid horse. OK so it's a FAST horse you say. Ummmm....Hmmmmmm... nope still don't care! These reports of people putting signs up at the hospital where it's staying wishing it well just make me laugh. It is a horse for Christ's sake it can't read, just stop it already!!!!!!

Its people like you i like to see in fatal car accidents. I know i'm a cold heartless bastard.

In all reality.. People might go overboard with there emotions to this type of thing i agree..... but its still a pet that brings no harm to us and didnt ask to be here. Maybe you should think about that.

[The Judge]

Originally Posted by jonnyblaze

I think the people with the signs know that.

The horse has $100,000 stud fees, which makes doesnt exactly make him a "supid horse" but rather a multi-million dollar commodity.

Barbaro's sire is Dynaformer who earns $100,000.00 stud fee but Barbaro's fee will probably begin at a round $50,000.00



When Dynaformer retired from the racetrack to the breeding shed, the stallion didn't have Sire of Kentucky Derby Winner stamped anywhere on his body.

For his first breeding season, his stud fee was a low-rent $5,000.

"He was breeding pretty much to the lowest-level mares in Kentucky," said Anne Peters, pedigree specialist at Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky.

Now 21 years old, Dynaformer stands for $100,000, the same premium price as another Three Chimneys star, Smarty Jones.

"He dragged the quality of his mares up," Peters said. "It is an incredible achievement, to become a world-class stallion."

Now, Dynaformer is the sire of a Kentucky Derby winner, Barbaro, who will be at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, trying to add the second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness Stakes.

The story of Barbaro really began when Roy and Gretchen Jackson hired Headley Bell, a fifth-generation Kentucky horseman, as a pedigree consultant in 2001.

He studied their mares and classified them into A, B and C categories. La Ville Rouge, which had earned $262,594 on the track, was an A mare, "the kind you feel can potentially breed a racehorse," Bell said.

Maybe there should be an AAA category for dams of Kentucky Derby winners.

"He's exactly like his mother, just a big one," co-owner Gretchen Jackson said of Barbaro.

Even before that breeding, Bell already was a big Dynaformer fan. He said he is impressed by stallions who begin with low stud fees "and climb the ladder." He's not a believer, he said, in just breeding the best to the best.

"I just don't believe in over-breeding the mare," Bell said.

Barbaro's father always had a feisty side. Dynaformer's legend includes biting off the finger of a groom a decade or so back. But the 1988 Jersey Derby winner definitely added the size to Barbaro's gene pool, and Dynaformer proved himself as a sire long before Barbaro came along. He has now sired nine Grade I stakes winners and nine horses who have earned at least $1 million. He is currently the third leading sire in North America, with his offspring earning $3,678,027 this year (including Barbaro).

[WildKat]

I think it's sad that some people has such disregard for animals for any reason. But, the one thing about these race horses is that they are risking their lives for OUR entertainment. I am one of the 160,000 at Churchill every forst Saturday in May to wager on the horses and I do care about what happens to the horse. I can understand if you don't follow the sport or you don't "lose sleep" over it, but I don't understand why people just can't keep their pie hole shut. I think it tells alot about people that don't like animals at all.....................screw you guys, I'm going home.............

[ANGELZ]

Originally Posted by WildKat

I think it's sad that some people has such disregard for animals for any reason. But, the one thing about these race horses is that they are risking their lives for OUR entertainment. I am one of the 160,000 at Churchill every forst Saturday in May to wager on the horses and I do care about what happens to the horse. I can understand if you don't follow the sport or you don't "lose sleep" over it, but I don't understand why people just can't keep their pie hole shut. I think it tells alot about people that don't like animals at all.....................screw you guys, I'm going home.............

[ZIGGYSTARDUST]

Construction workers every day take their lives in their hands to build our country into a viable prosperous country but when one of them dies its no big story ... But let some HORSE get hurts that most did not even know his name before two weeks ago and its the end of the world... Its not like your pet dying who you have a relationship with its a FREAKING HORSE that all but 20 people in the world have had no contact with.... EVER... GEEZ GET OVER IT... Just because you live that life does not mean the rest of us are bad people because we dont give a RATS ASS ABOUT A HORSE!!!!