... a horse's drug abuse
"Hey, mister! You got any horse pills? I'll give ya somethin' for 'em! You ... you wanna ride me?"
... a horse's drug abuse
"Hey, mister! You got any horse pills? I'll give ya somethin' for 'em! You ... you wanna ride me?"
Wow, when a bunch of greedy animal abusing assholes issue sanctions against you, you know you did something atrocious.
At first I thought it was pretty funny, then I read about that guy. Yeah fuck him.
How is this dude not fully banned from everything ever
It's a pattern for Herbertson. He had submitted other names to the Jockey Club for Austrian Painter, including "My Struggle" and "Braunau Star." The former is the English translation for Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf, which he wrote while in prison; the latter seems to be a reference to Hitler's birthplace Braunau am Inn, although Herbertson claimed it was referencing the birthplace of his wife's grandfather. He also said "Austrian Painter" was a reference to Gustav Klimt.
How is this dude not fully banned from everything ever
I’ve never heard of a race horse owner that isn’t rich.
They're literally animal abusers. You think they have a moral compass?
Are one of his wife's parents from Argentina?
You know when there's a guy who won't quit talking about how much of a Nazi he is a good solution is for everyone to just beat the living shit out of him. Have they tried that?
Registered horse names are so fucking stupid aside from the one racehorse I know named Five. That's his whole registered name which is so short and honestly hilarious. Oh! Potoooooooo is also great.

You got an issue with Kidslookin Touchable?
I came to the thread to mention Potoooooooo, so you almost gave me a clear thread to do so. lol. So I'll just explain for the slow ones (It took me a while to get it the first time I saw it) - that's "pot-eight-o" i.e. "Potato" lol
The way they wrote that, I was thinking that Austrian Painter was a kind of horse. “You brought it on yourselves, horse breeders!” Then after a couple of reads, I got that the owner named it that. Of course, I was still doing math on those obligatory numbers to see if any of them were divisible by 88.
Hmm another Austrian painter banned. Im sure it will go well.
...what’s left of the sport of horse racing in the U.S.
What does this mean, I wonder.
In the state of California, the handles and starts are down over 55% in the last 26 years with an average of -3.4% YOY. The industry also kills an average of 1.5 horses per week for the last 6 years, just at the tracks in California alone.
I'm intentionally leaving out the 2019 fatalities, as that year would push the average above 2.25 horses dead per week, and was a bit of an outlier.
Basically, the industry is dying, and the tracks are more valuable as developable land.
#KillRacingNotHorses
Seems like horse racing is getting less and less popular over time. Most racetracks I know of near me have slots and other gaming machines in them now, and I bet the slots subsidize the horse racing.
Ah, makes sense.
At the same time, the actual owning and racing of horses seems like mostly a rich peoples' sport, so I wonder how that's working for them...
It's a special K shaped economy.
Wasn't that a... outdated breakfast-cereal, or something?
(good luck if there's a whole economy based around that disaster, lol)
Fun facts: (AKA explain the joke, making it less funny to some, but more funny to me)
Special K is also slang for ketamine, a drug popular with some high profile oligarchs and other elites.
So the "K" in K-shaped economy (wealth divergence) and the "K" in Special K (ketamine) land on the same social group *the ultra-wealthy on the top arm of the K * making the letter a convenient pun for commentary on inequality and privilege.
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