Easier to love animals than people

Very true! Not sure why anyone would make jokes of people loving and enjoying an animal of any kind special to them.

Correct

Would be a nice jester to name a race or a venue in his honor he may not have been a good race horse but it's not his fault the chips fell that way but he was loved that's more important then winning any races.

@@davidray4793 Valuable lesson, if at first you don’t succeed try try again! That would be a great way to honor Zippy

Amen.

horse racing should be abolished.

No registered thoroughbred is sent to the slaughter. Anyone who has a thoroughbred knows that they will never work or be part of horse racing again if they do that. Every thoroughbred is traced from birth…actually, from conception. Whatever price you get at the slaughter house will never be enough to forever lose the right to raise, train, handle, breed, or have anything to do with the industry…further they would be banned from all race tracks…so not even a job of mucking a stall would be available.

@@deborahschumann8286 Thank you for that information.

@@HunterPeale Since you stated your belief, maybe you could work toward that cause.

Oh how I loved Medina Spirit, and happy Zippy will cross paths with Medina in heaven, RIP

Medina deserved better!! Glad he is interred at Old Friends🐎💗

Remember Ruffian

@@HunterPeale always

I remember him running!

Great story! Thanks.

Sorry for your loss.

Sorry for your loss. It's so hard losing a beloved animal.

zippy was abused very so

..anyone who has been privileged to spend any time, let alone a lifetime, with these magnificent creatures, is truly blessed, despite the pain of loss. Some of us have not had even a sniff of that in this life and I look forward to that being rectified in the next, whether the cobbyist cob or Arabian, I will not mind.

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Some horses do like to race and will race each other in the pasture, but I do have to say I don't agree with the race horses practice, they are ran way to often and far to young and as a result they suffer serious injuries and arthritis. The Kentucky Derby for example is only for 2 year old horses a horse's knees are not fully formed until the age of two and sometimes later it is physically unsafe to ride them causing arthritis and joint damage but these horses are already trying to carry a person by the time they get to the derby. And I've seen many races where they run horses in far less than ideal conditions for example if it has been raining and the track is too soft the horse's feet will sink and they can severely damage their ankles and knees

@@reneeburtness1526 yeah, they love racing in the paddock and on the track to a certain extent, as well. I know this from experience (my background is in stockhorses, rodeo but I also briefly worked for a top racing trainer). My point is that this horse who ran last on a lot of occasions had a good life. Running last all the time wasn't something that caused him to have a low self-esteem for instance!!!

In every horse-related sport are very loving ppl and very very bad ones :)

@@johanna7096 Well, yes, but in the racing industry, there's mostly bad. Most times if the horse doesn't perform well, they get shipped over into other countries, like Mexico, where they go to get slaughtered (if they're lucky, they get a forever home with other people). A lot of the time the horses are also ran extremely young, so young that their bones aren't formed and solid yet. You'll find many horses that loose a leg and have to be put down on site. Thousands of horses have died in this industry, more than any other horse sport. It is one of the worst ones out there. This also includes, Big Lick, it's a really bad one as well, it should be outlawed. Saddle-seat is also pretty similar to Big Lick, but with different/similar manor of getting the exaggerated gait and high flying tails. I wish there were more people who cared about their horses, I want the horses to live their best lives with their human/horse family. Zippy is one of the lucky ones. His family didn't care if he won or not from what it looked like in the video.