PETA wants Eight Belles’ jockey suspended

NORFOLK, Va. – 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.

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.

“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.”

“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.

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.

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PETA wants Eight Belles’ jockey suspended

Yeah, that’s right PETA, thoroughbred owners and champion jockeys are notorious for abusing million dollar animals, that’s how they got to BE in the position they are, and ya know, I’ll bet they probably thought this one was gonna taste real good on the BBQ..

PETA has got to be, next to the U.N., the most useless bunch of dumbass moonbats to ever inhabit God’s green earth..

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