Well, leave it to the morons from PETA to finagle their way into the news on the heels of this sad event.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking the suspension of Eight Belles' jockey after the filly had to be euthanized following her second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.I have no idea what this moron Guillermo was doing while the race was going on, but she clearly wasn't watching.
Gabriel Saez was riding Eight Belles when she broke both front ankles while galloping out a quarter of a mile past the wire. She was euthanized on the track.
PETA faxed a letter Sunday to Kentucky's racing authority claiming the filly was "doubtlessly injured before the finish" and asked that Saez be suspended while Eight Belles' death is investigated.
"What we really want to know, did he feel anything along the way?" PETA spokeswoman Kathy Guillermo said. "If he didn't then we can probably blame the fact that they're allowed to whip the horses mercilessly."
Eight Belles trainer Larry Jones said the filly was clearly happy when she crossed the finish line.
"I don't know how in the heck they can even come close to saying that," Jones told The Associated Press on Sunday. "She has her ears up, clearly galloping out."
Guillermo said if Saez is found at fault, the group wants the second-place prize of $400,000 won by Eight Belles to be revoked.
If she pulled her head out of her ass for two minutes, she's have seen Eight Belles cross the finish line in second place. Had the horse been injured during the race, she obviously wouldn't have finished second, if she had finished at all.
It's times like this when such radical groups lose what little credibility they have.
PETA needs to just dummy up and go back to harassing mink farmers, or whatever it is they do for a living, and leave horse racing to the experts.
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