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malaise

(269,366 posts) Fri Jun 8, 2012, 12:14 PM Jun 2012

Forget a Triple Crown this year - I'll have Another will not run in the Belmont tomorrow

Press Conference coming up

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Forget a Triple Crown this year - I'll have Another will not run in the Belmont tomorrow (Original Post) malaise Jun 2012 OP

Hmmm proud2BlibKansan Jun 2012 #1

you have got to be kidding. Lefta Dissenter Jun 2012 #2

Nuts, isn't it? proud2BlibKansan Jun 2012 #4

countdown to the righteous errrrr Liberals trumad Jun 2012 #3

LOL malaise Jun 2012 #5

Someone this AM said that PCIntern Jun 2012 #6

Just heard this on the news. I'm bummed out. Rhiannon12866 Jun 2012 #7

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)

1. Hmmm

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 12:26 PM

Jun 2012

Horse slaughter plant proposed for Rockville, Mo.

In March when a company wanted to open a horse slaughter operation, residents of Mountain Grove, Mo., ran the people behind it out of town.

Unified Equine Missouri is now ready to try again. This time in Rockville, Mo., less than a hundred miles south of Kansas City in Bates County, the company announced Thursday.

If the plan is successful, the Rockville facility would be the first in the country to open after Congress restored funding for inspections of horse slaughter operations last year. The company’s plan for Mountain Grove called for slaughtering 800 horses a day with the most of the meat being exported to Europe.

Sue Wallis, head of Unified Equine, said Thursday a former beef packing plant at the edge of Rockville is being renovated and the horse operation is on track to open by summer’s end and eventually supply 50 jobs.

“We are excited to be bringing jobs and opportunity to rural Missouri,” Wallis, a Wyoming state legislator, said in a news release. “And even happier to provide a humane and viable option to the horse industry, decimated by misguided efforts to end humane horse slaughter.”

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/07/3647782/horse-slaughter-plant-proposed.html#storylink=cpy

Lefta Dissenter

(6,623 posts)

2. you have got to be kidding.

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 12:39 PM

Jun 2012

“We are excited to be bringing jobs and opportunity to rural Missouri,” Wallis, a Wyoming state legislator, said in a news release. “And even happier to provide a humane and viable option to the horse industry, decimated by misguided efforts to end humane horse slaughter.”

Let's produce more horses so we can slaughter them.

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)

4. Nuts, isn't it?

Reply to Lefta Dissenter (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 12:54 PM

Jun 2012

I had just read that article right before I saw this OP. Couldn't help but make an irreverent connection.

trumad

(41,692 posts)

3. countdown to the righteous errrrr Liberals

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 12:47 PM

Jun 2012

Who will shit in this thread.

malaise

(269,366 posts)

5. LOL

Reply to trumad (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 01:17 PM

Jun 2012

Happens every time
They have retired him - tendinitis - I'm glad.

PCIntern

(25,663 posts)

6. Someone this AM said that

Reply to malaise (Reply #5)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 01:27 PM

Jun 2012

there couldn't be a Triple Crown b/c his name is not that of a TC winner.

Sheesh...

Rhiannon12866

(207,016 posts)

7. Just heard this on the news. I'm bummed out.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 05:19 PM

Jun 2012

I'm not a betting person, but I grew up in Saratoga Springs and my Dad took us to the track to see the horses every summer. We even went to the Fasig Tipton auctions once, where they auction off the young horses for immense amounts of money. I've come to just love horses.

I've been following this season and was willing to bet on a Triple Crown this time around, since the Belmont is the longest race and that's been I'll Have Another's style, making up ground at the finish. And he's such a beautiful and talented horse, I thought he deserved it. Damn!

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