Well, Lookin' at Lucky won the Preakness, making it another year without a Triple Crown. A few years ago, a commentator commentated that if we don't have another Triple Crown winner soon, horse racing will lose all its fans and fail to gain new ones -- and I agree.
With War Admiral turned into dog food after an unfortunate leg-breaking incident, and no one outside the OTB able to remember any horse that's come after, I say it's time to go "Quiz Show" on this sport and get us a winner -- and if we can't get an attractive, come-from-behind horse to win legally, let's get one to win illegally.
Of course this would piss off the inveterate gamblers, who seem to be the base of fans this sport retains, but it would also shake up the numbers for awhile and get people back in Derby seats with their hats and juleps, regular (rich) fans who make this sport more like fox-hunting (socially acceptable because white British men do it) and less like dog-fighting (so socially unacceptable it can send a black man to jail -- not that that's any feat in itself).
Not that those hat-wearing, julep-sipping Derby fans aren't out there, but that I used to want to be one, and now I don't.
Give us a Triple Crown, guys, come on. Take one for the team.
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