Comments on: HALL OF FAME ASTERISKS http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/hall-of-fame-asterisks-1062.htm William Shanklin Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:13:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dray33 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/hall-of-fame-asterisks-1062.htm/comment-page-1#comment-139 dray33 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:52:05 +0000 http://www.horseracingbusiness.com/?p=1062#comment-139 "these modern racehorses will have a figurative asterisk associated with each of their names and a plaque in the Hall of Fame won’t erase it." BUT they will surely be celebrated, and escorted into the breeding sheds across America, and bred to hundreds of mares a year... all under the false guise of ability that may or may not have been justified... stepping on those who were foolish enough to care about the sport and the breed. Leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Multiply that times three decades, and numerous generations. Voila! Paper horses; and scoundrels as leaders and industry icons. “these modern racehorses will have a figurative asterisk associated with each of their names and a plaque in the Hall of Fame won’t erase it.”

BUT they will surely be celebrated, and escorted into the breeding sheds across America, and bred to hundreds of mares a year… all under the false guise of ability that may or may not have been justified… stepping on those who were foolish enough to care about the sport and the breed. Leaving a path of destruction in their wake. Multiply that times three decades, and numerous generations. Voila! Paper horses; and scoundrels as leaders and industry icons.

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