Chuckwagon races must go, say activists
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Apparently those who are horrified when a minority group is criticized do not extend that defense when a necessary minority, that being the rural people who provide their food, heat, light, are slammed.
Yes they ARE a minority, without whom there would be a dramatic increase in the prices urban dwellers pay for all essential to life items. That can not really be said for some other minorities so why the double standard?
Yes they ARE a minority, without whom there would be a dramatic increase in the prices urban dwellers pay for all essential to life items. That can not really be said for some other minorities so why the double standard?
Good question.
IMHO, the answer is, rural dwellers just aren't as sensitive as other PC protected groups. Combined with the fact that the demographic has been historically/predominantly conservative. The Usual Suspects feel no need to offer the same level of fained and formulated outrage.
I can't comprehend why we, as a society, allow this to continue. Really funny, but no the point (in terms of the absurdity of the Stampede's existence) take here: The Dumbest F*ck!ng Sport On All Of Planet Earth | The Barnstormer
Calgarians can surely find something else to do in July.
Calgarians can surely find something else to do in July.
Of course they could. Perhaps stick to rock concerts where wide eyed teens are preyed upon by drug dealers and such. I mean, it is not like they are animals eh?
Physician heal thyself.
Teens choose to attend/participate. Horses have no choice. We can all quote the Bible, but best we're able to understand it too.
"A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools."
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Your rapier wit and stellar erudition do justice to the Alberta primary school system-congratulations!
Yet more blazing insight and stinging repartee-what chance do ordinary humans have when confronted by your superior intellect?
Wow how profound-your post puts paid to the old saw that being dropped on one's head as a child is harmful.
It won't. Stampede's numbers are way up this year. The "protesters" are being ignored by the people going to the Stampede.
They come across as exactly what they are. Brainless twits, standing on the side of McLeod Trail yelling idiotically about that which they know not. I will also lay odds that these same assholes will defend a woman's right to kill her pre born baby. In other words, animals worth more than human lives.
It definitely didn't help you any.
I don't like roadkill on the sides of our highways either ... but that doesn't stop anyone from driving - in either direction
Perhaps a correlation can be drawn between Chuckwagon racing and horseracing in Ontario.
MicSquinty has rewritten support parameters for the size of the purses in Ontario and where a portion of Casino profits were previously syphoned off and used to bump up the size of race purses, that practice has now changed so the province is no longer "donating" a share of it's cut from Casin profits to upgrade horse race purses.
A thriving industry of horse related activities from breeding to training that was attracting money from all over north america is now drying up with subsequent result that some breeders are stuck with yearlings that no one will purchase now and left with no choice but to either let them starve or put them down. Some improvement on the compassion front eh?
Knee jerk reactions to the deaths of horses during chuck wagon races should be avoided. Perhaps it's as simple as telling Bob Barker to shut his yap and clean up his own back yeard firstly then cast his irrelevant eye over a border only after he's elimanated all cruelty under his nose.
Perhaps some new reg's need implementing; a regimen of vet checks during weeks leading up to and immediately prior to races, ambient temperature limitations, breakaway harnessing that allows for the drop of one without killing all three, driver training classes (sound silly?) for the driver's association to go proactive and eliminate some of the macho, ego driven behaviour during races that puts horses and outriders at risk.
Chuck wagon races are going to change regardless and might as well be with "designed and controlled" compliance rather than imposed restrictions after a long and bitter battle with everything from public opinion to federal gov't intervention getting involved.
The people who could have told you this day would come were those folks who first objected to speed limits for cars, seat belts, helmets, no smoking rules etc., etc.. If you are suprised you must be less than 8 years old!
MicSquinty has rewritten support parameters for the size of the purses in Ontario and where a portion of Casino profits were previously syphoned off and used to bump up the size of race purses, that practice has now changed so the province is no longer "donating" a share of it's cut from Casin profits to upgrade horse race purses.
A thriving industry of horse related activities from breeding to training that was attracting money from all over north america is now drying up with subsequent result that some breeders are stuck with yearlings that no one will purchase now and left with no choice but to either let them starve or put them down. Some improvement on the compassion front eh?
Knee jerk reactions to the deaths of horses during chuck wagon races should be avoided. Perhaps it's as simple as telling Bob Barker to shut his yap and clean up his own back yeard firstly then cast his irrelevant eye over a border only after he's elimanated all cruelty under his nose.
Perhaps some new reg's need implementing; a regimen of vet checks during weeks leading up to and immediately prior to races, ambient temperature limitations, breakaway harnessing that allows for the drop of one without killing all three, driver training classes (sound silly?) for the driver's association to go proactive and eliminate some of the macho, ego driven behaviour during races that puts horses and outriders at risk.
Chuck wagon races are going to change regardless and might as well be with "designed and controlled" compliance rather than imposed restrictions after a long and bitter battle with everything from public opinion to federal gov't intervention getting involved.
The people who could have told you this day would come were those folks who first objected to speed limits for cars, seat belts, helmets, no smoking rules etc., etc.. If you are suprised you must be less than 8 years old!
Not at all-they could be put up for adoption/happens all the time I know it's true because I read it right here on this thread.
Or they can be sent to the Knackers. http://albertahorsemeat.wordpress.com/
Vet checks have been implemented before, during and after for this year. As well as reducing the number of outriders from 4 to 2. The accident this year could not have been avoided as the condition the horse had was unforeseeable. The outrider and his horse may have been spared if he had not been following directly behind the wagon.
So what's the excuse for the rest of the year?
No excuse... Just that practice makes perfect and I (personally) work very hard in my training during the non-Stampede season to get ready for the next event.
... At least, that's the excuse that I'm sticking with
I hear that smoking bath salts is a real good time.
It is Chuck Wagon racing...........the Kentucky Derby is horse racing.
Race car drivers have a choice...........chuck wagon horses don't.
You really gotta tell us how you force a horse to pull a wagon around a track at break neck speeds.
training is not forcing. I have seen "trainers" trying to "force" a horse to do something. For the most part it doesn't work. The horse needs to "want" to do something for it to be a winner. It needs to "love" the game.
OK, for the sake of argument, I'll concede.
Lets call it conditioning than.
No, it needs to be conditioned to do it.
Playing on a horses natural instincts to run and play, isn't really the horse saying "Strap me to a chuckwagon and lets get it on big boy!".
It's the horse being conditioned to do something man wants it to do.
There's nothing natural to a horse about being harnessed. Hence the term "To break a horse".
Does that sound like the horse was begging for it?