Papa Juggs
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What now? You won like $13-$14 depending on your tote.
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2014 Emirates Melbourne Cup Day discussion.
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What now? You won like $13-$14 depending on your tote.
HawkintheTuarts
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18 horse fields for 15/16?
Three horses in two races is going to cause change you'd think, and honestly, I don't mind watching the races even if the horses are not pushed above their limits....
Three horses in two races is going to cause change you'd think, and honestly, I don't mind watching the races even if the horses are not pushed above their limits....
Will go with Vilanova EW
So what? A horse having a kick isn't going to result in this sort of thing. Don't Helen Lovejoy the situation and start throwing blame where it doesn't belong
Now they're saying Araldo has injured it's leg kicking out at the fence on the walk back
This could be the 154th and last, I fear.
You are surely taking the piss with your end of the Melbourne Cup predictions?
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Araldo hurt himself. Another of my main exotics.
Only slightly melodramatic
Now they're saying Araldo has injured it's leg kicking out at the fence on the walk back
This could be the 154th and last, I fear.
What the hell are you smoking you fool.
Half the field could die and it wouldn't stop the race from going ahead the next year.
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A broken Cannon bone is a retirement at best isn't it?
Can you please stop being so ridiculous? Hate to tell you this but horses die in racing all the time, we mourn and then everyone moves on.Now they're saying Araldo has injured it's leg kicking out at the fence on the walk back
This could be the 154th and last, I fear.
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Twitter reports saying a child waved a flag in Araldo's face and it kicked out.
FFS, I'm not anti-racing but this has to be the lat time the cup is run like this.
These animals have raced 2mile, once the race is over take them to a scale somewhere else and don't let the crowd near them.
FFS, I'm not anti-racing but this has to be the lat time the cup is run like this.
These animals have raced 2mile, once the race is over take them to a scale somewhere else and don't let the crowd near them.
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I'm not anti-racing, but if two runners die on the day there will be a lot of backlash.
Hopefully positive changes are made for the future of the race, but you need to get your head out of the sand.
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It so much easier when you can't just ask the horse "Did you take any performance enhancing drugs?" They just look at you and shit on the ground.
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OMG Sysmo. 
That hurts.
That hurts.
Lol Tuscan Fire just looming into it like the winner, that would've done me for life.
I say put the child down
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The 154th and last was a stupid comment.
But I think my point about keeping the crowds away in the time before and after the race is valid.
But I think my point about keeping the crowds away in the time before and after the race is valid.
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Terrible news, but realistically it won't stop it from going ahead next year. There'll be plenty of bad press for the next week or so, but it'll quickly get swept away by other news (Christmas/Cricket/ISIS/Whatever). Animal rights groups will kick up a stink and demand an end but they won't get it. There's too much money/revenue involved now. Racing Vic/The govt (or whoever is in charge of the event) will call for a review of practices etc. maybe call for some sackings and promise changes, but it'll be on again next year regardless.Now they're saying Araldo has injured it's leg kicking out at the fence on the walk back
This could be the 154th and last, I fear.
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Hawks1523
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Sysmo you ****!
Yeah I agree. Especially if Araldo is retired (or worse) as a result of the injury
Indeed it is
The backlash comes from Helen Lovejoys liek yourself suggesting they'll never run the cup again...
There is always something to be learned when horses die/get injured, being a melodramatic idiot teaches us nothing.
ARALDO probably spotted Hamish
