Sheryl Nantus said:
how do you think it was fixed?
The gate malfunction is definately the most fishy thing, here. Gates work together, so if it had been a genuine gate malfunction, all of the gates would have malfunctioned together. Barbaro did not force himself through the gate, but rather, he tapped it and it flew open...then, thinking the race had started, he exploded out of it. If by some wild chance, the gate had malfunctioned (I've seen 1 gate malfunction in 14 years of watching races... (and I didn't actually see it, I heard about it) a friend of mine, who has 40 years experiance, has seen none) and if by some chance, it had been the only one...Barbaro would have had to force himself through it. He shouldn't have just been able to tap it and it shouldn't have flown open like it did. Then, say it was a genuine malfunction. Say today was just a freaky kind of day, a type of day when a single gate malfunction is possible. Why was it HIS gate that did it? What are the chances that of all the gates that could have malfunctioned throughout the day, only
his did?
The other fishy thing about the gate is that the starter let the horse go. Barbaro wasn't exactly on a murder rampage. Had the starter held onto his bit, he would have gone just a few steps. So why did the starter just let him go? Even if he didn't do it on purpose, I think the starter deserves to spend the rest of his life in an internment camp.
The last thing is the severity of his injuries. Nothing really
happened to him. His bones just
broke. So why? Horses bones don't just
break...no bones do. It takes a stumble or some kind of trauma to accomplish three bone breaks as severe as they are.
Think about it. Have you ever shattered the bones in your arm for no reason at all?
Edited to say: Forgive my typos, for I consider the fact that I'm no longer throwing things and screaming a vast improvement...and coherant typing is too much to expect of me right now.