Saez Killed Eight Belles
In every sport, participants always want to win. To athletes, being named second best means one could have been the best, but they just fell short. Twenty-year old Gabriel Saez was the rider who rode famed filly Eight Belles. As a rookie, winning was a big goal for him and he took extreme measures just to make sure he emerged victorious.
People however, instinctively know when enough is enough. Apparently, Saez did not seem to recognize that when he brutally and fiercely whipped Eight Belles to a second-place finish in the 2008 Kentucky Derby. It would have been a good day for Saez had not Eight Belles fractured her front ankles a quarter mile past the finish line. Consequently, the horse was euthanized on the spot.
Was it the deliberate modification of the thoroughbred’s DNA that led to her death? A lot of people say it was so. Others, on the other hand, hold Saez responsible. People were asking, “Did Saez push the folly too far?” The answer is yes, he did. No doubt about that.
Animal rights group PETA now hounds the sport of horseracing in general and Saez in particular. PETA declared that Saez may have deliberately forced Eight Belles to go on even if the filly was already whinnying in distress, as described by jockey Corey Nakatani who rode with Saez on that race.
Such cruelty in the sport indicates nothing but the love of money and fame.
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