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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:44 PM
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A way to address the supposed cruelty of horseracing
Here's the new rule:

The jockey can use absolutely any non-chemical methods at all to urge the horse to run faster, but only while the jockey is being dragged behind the horse.


Naked.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:47 PM
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1. Is somebody making money from this competition?
:shrug:
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:48 PM
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3. I'm still awaiting responses from several venture capitalists
After that, it's nothing but profit profit profit.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:48 PM
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2. My trifecta picks:
Road Rash

Dislocation

Blunt Force Trauma
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:50 PM
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4. On what kind of surface?
Dirt, grass and gravel will all be very different for the jockey.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:52 PM
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5. Well, we'd keep the same tracks that we use now
No sense mixing everything up at once IMO.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:53 PM
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6. Good point.
And I'd imagine gravel probably wouldn't be good for the horses anyway.

Although it would make it more fun to watch the jockeys.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:54 PM
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7. I vote for recycled broken glass shards
If you're gonna go hard core, might as well go all the way. ;-)
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:55 PM
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8. That's definitely not gonna be good for the horses though.
:shrug:
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:56 PM
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10. They could wear horseboots instead of horseshoes?
I mean, if those rescue dogs can have special booties, why can't horses?


Why do you hate horses, you cruel bastard?!?
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:57 PM
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11. *hangs head in shame* I'm a bad person, I know.
:P
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:55 PM
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9. That would really separate the men
From their skins. The butt stops here, I guess...


Ouch!
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