I enjoy reading Valerie's blog, Foolish Pleasure. And it's not just because I'm sucking up to her because she and five of her drinking buddies invented TURF. It's because she's smart. And intelligent and pointed and thought provoking, and if she were a mare, she'd burn her bra halter! Anyway, Valerie recently laid it on the line and detailed her own scientific and/or not-so-scientific observations that effectively surmised that fillies and/or mares that race in the U.S. are a bunch of wusses. Okay, she didn't exactly use the word wuss; she alluded that horse racing in the United States is "pitifully locked into a myopic mindset when it comes to challenging open company events." This is a very important phrase because I'm planning on working it into my future dissertation.
Anyway, Valerie provided some food [but mostly wine] for thought. I pondered over a rather modest sampling ...
Blind Luck? Has she ever raced in open company? Wuss.
Goldikova? Oh yeah, she's the real mucho macho [wo]man!
Zazu? Za-who?!?
Danedream? A dream come true! Magnifique! Oops ... she's German: Herrlich!
Never Retreat? Won the First Lady, not the Lady/Gentleman.
Secret Admirer? A lot to admire!
Life At Ten? Still investigating ...
Well, that's not a very fair sampling but the wunderfillies that come to mind don't exactly reside on this side of the pond. And, as an interesting footnote, I read in today's issue of Breeders' Cup spam email alerts that European Sarafina is headed to Churchill Downs to race [against the boys] in the Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Turf.
Not only is open company horse racing "pitifully myopic" here in the U.S., it seems borderline tragic. And speaking of tragic, there is nothing more tragic than the news out of Sheboygan, Wisconsin:
You rock, Sue! After the ass-kicking I took over at The Paulick Report yesterday, I needed a little ego masturbation. Luckily, you served it up with wine too! LMAO!
You hardly got a thrashing over at Paulick. Many of the arguments and comments, none of which would include "Sinking Ship" and "Barry Irwin", were thoughtful and insightful. I, on the other hand, had to work long and hard last night (read: the entire bottom of the 6th inning) to come up with some kind of verbiage relating shattering wine bottles to horse racing!
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You rock, Sue! After the ass-kicking I took over at The Paulick Report yesterday, I needed a little ego masturbation. Luckily, you served it up with wine too! LMAO!
You hardly got a thrashing over at Paulick. Many of the arguments and comments, none of which would include "Sinking Ship" and "Barry Irwin", were thoughtful and insightful. I, on the other hand, had to work long and hard last night (read: the entire bottom of the 6th inning) to come up with some kind of verbiage relating shattering wine bottles to horse racing!
Glad you had a laugh.
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