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CNN Breaking News

Big Brown wins the 134th Kentucky Derby.

Posted by CNN on May 3, 2008 at 06:20 PM | Permalink

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So if you finish second you have to die?!?! Jesus.

Posted by: Marty West | May 3, 2008 6:42:00 PM

Hillary better start distancing herself from those filly comments ASAP.

Posted by: kcatnd | May 3, 2008 6:45:35 PM

Only female in race finishes second, is immediately euthanized...uh oh.

Posted by: JD | May 3, 2008 6:54:38 PM

Isn't it a bit ominous that Hillary's pick finished second and had to be immediately euthanized?

Posted by: Perdu | May 3, 2008 7:45:52 PM

This is a serious question. If Eight Belles were a stud rather than a filly would she still have been euthanized given the breeding money to be earned? You laugh, but I once saw the horse Rock of Gibralter in person and the owner said that he breeded 365 days a year at 30-40k a pop (no pregnancy guarenteed). I demand to know: WAS EIGHT BELLES' KILLING SEXIST?

Posted by: copndor | May 3, 2008 9:22:55 PM

I want to know if Hillary cried.

Posted by: Brendan | May 3, 2008 9:39:05 PM

Is there a primary coming up? (i.e. Is the pope Catholic?)

Posted by: copndor | May 3, 2008 9:40:17 PM

"Eight Belles ran her heart out -- and she was all heart. Eighteen males finished behind her. The nearest, Denis of Cork, was 2¾ lengths in her wake and overmatched, while the others staggered toward the wire outclassed not only by Big Brown, but by the only filly in the field whose effort will be remembered in eulogy rather than history."

Wow. You just replace "Eight Belles" with "Hillary" and "Dennis of Cork" with "John Edwards" and it sounds almost prophetic. And the winner is "Big Brown." Ha!

Posted by: Mad Max, Esquire | May 3, 2008 10:02:00 PM

I'm glad someone besides me finally broke the ice on the "Big Brown" comment.

Posted by: copndor | May 3, 2008 10:07:02 PM

All I have to say is Hillary better tape up her ankles. That's just too much of a bizarre coincidence.

Posted by: Mad Max, Esquire | May 3, 2008 10:10:50 PM

I have a feeling Hillary's cankles are a bit more robust than Eight Belles'.

Posted by: copndor | May 3, 2008 10:12:26 PM

Yes, but Eight Belles wasn't running on heels.

Posted by: Mad Max, Esquire | May 3, 2008 10:15:07 PM

I don't get it. If Hillary's the filly, who plays the role of the stud?

Posted by: copndor | May 3, 2008 10:21:52 PM

Huma?

*ducks*

Posted by: Brendan | May 3, 2008 10:34:33 PM

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