Hillary’s Derby horse breaks both ankles and comes in 2nd!
On Joe Scarborough’s MSNBC show “Morning Joe,” Willie Geist has a segment called “News You Can’t Use.” On that segment Friday, May 2, 2008, he points that in one of Hillary’s stump speeches, she asks people to bet on the female horse, “Eight Belles” in the 134th Kentucky Derby. Willie says, “Big Brown is the 3-1 favorite to win the first leg of the Triple Crown at Churchill Downs despite the fact he’s starting way outside in the 20th position. Well Senator Hillary Clinton is not going with that favorite. She likes…get this…an upstart filly, who will fight to the very end.” Joe Scarborough says, “Boy how embarrassing if Eight Belles pulls up lame and they have to put her down.” Either Joe was just imaging the worst scenario for Hillary’s metaphor or he has an ability to see into the future, because, the worst scenario became a reality. “The victory was overshadowed by an injury to Eight Belles, who broke both front ankles and was immediately euthanized after the race.” Big Brown was “the first horse to win from the 20 hole since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929″ This was only Big Brown’s fourth race in his career! Is this a bad Omen for Hillary or just a lame attempt to play the gender card that ended up being a parallel she will regret making. Do you think Joe Scarborough feels bad that he laughed about it even though it was before the race and the chances of that happening were extremely slim?
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July 15th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
eight belles is a great she beat all 18 boys how great is she
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I hate horse racing.
Why is it in this world everything has to be the Fastest the BIggest the Strongest
Its so cruel to do this to animals.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Dont know anything about racing, do you? Eight Belles was a FILLY, racing against COLTS…not geldings. Most racers are uncut males, and there wasnt a single gelding in the Derby.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
What are you talking about??!?!?!
August 21st, 2008 at 11:47 am
It make me sick that these idiots are making all these comments about the Derby and Eight Belles when they know nothing about racing or “Belle.” I know they didn’t know Eight Belles would die, but that’s something you don’t joke about. How dare people make fun or her, alive or not. It’s aimed at Hillary, but leave the horse out of it. Hillary actually had sense here, Eight Belles fought to the end like a tiger. RIP Belle. I still miss you, baby.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:49 am
Eight Belles was a filly, not a mare. And most of the horses in the Derby are colts, not gelding. And why can’t the fillies race the colts? Did you watch the 2007 Belmont Stakes?
August 21st, 2008 at 11:49 am
Tell me about it.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:51 am
All horses are slow and hard to stop, racehorse or not. Belle was not “refusing” to stop, she was slowing down gradually.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Poor Eight Belles….RIP…sweetie
November 4th, 2008 at 12:31 am
I’m not usually the kind of person that preaches animal rights and what not, but racing is cruel. The things they do to their horses and the things they make those poor Animals do. Greed and recklessness. Stupid people.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:06 am
these thorobreds are differnt from strandardbreds iv had standardbreds an they r so much sounder it takes no talent 2 race a thorobred its hard 2 keep a standarbred trotting anyways average thoro goes 12 or 13 starts a year my horse go 45 35 starts an still goin strong i hate thoros
November 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I don’t understand why the horse was killed. I have a friend who broke his legs in multiple places and lost almost half his blood, yet was still saved after he flat lined twice in the hospital. This is preposterous!
December 18th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
poor animal
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
she ran her heart out and was a great horse
March 12th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
honestly…i cant stand horse racing
sometimes it can get cruel like beating the horse. and most horses are started under saddle way to soon and they get a sway back. i dont kno anything about racing either so say wat u want i still dont like it
April 6th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
i hate horse races! i think they should be banned! these poor horses die for nothing=( i cant even watch another race from what happened to barbaro=(
May 1st, 2009 at 3:21 pm
well if you hate it so much why did you bother to watch this video?
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:40 pm
at least she didnt have to suffer. she was such a strong filly no matter what people say. RIP eight bells. we love you
August 7th, 2009 at 7:06 am
A few people out there may not know the difference between fillies/colts, mares/stallions/gelding. Fillies and colts are young horses, under 4. Fillies being female, colts being male.
At least Eight Bells was put down humanely. There are cases where horses who run ‘too slow’ are sold to meat men. Unfortunately, she injured herself but the bright side is that she didn’t have the chance to be discarded for meat.
October 17th, 2009 at 2:13 am
so sad most of the realy popular horses are well………..dead
because of brocken bones
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
i think they shouldn’t joke about a horse breaking down and dying. Have they not seen the pictures of her thrashing around wildly, trying to get up? Does the video of her crashing down to her knees, both ankles shattered, not somewhat hurt their cruel hearts? I’d spit on these kinds of people
February 4th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Eight Belles beat all the boys except the one on steroids, in my mind Eight Belles would have one if Big Brown wasn`t on them.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:35 am
The reporters jynxed her
April 26th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Its a tragic fluke, what happened to her. But the thing is…she didn’t snap her ankles because she was a filly racing against colts, its is the age. At that age, a horse has very little control over themselves, and unfortuanatly this happens very often with BOTH fillies and colts. I don’t think that people should be racing horses that young at all, there not done growing yet at that age and even though they move so quickly, they are very fragile.. R.I.P baby girl
April 28th, 2010 at 12:06 am
she broke down AFTER the race anyway, not during it…