“He Is Moving Like A Tremendous Machine!”

I cry like a baby watching him run.

2 Responses to ““He Is Moving Like A Tremendous Machine!””

1. tree hugging sister says:

   June 5, 2015 at 3:01 pm

   Oh, how I adore that big baby boy.

   Pure Heart

   Just before noon the horse was led haltingly into a van next to the stallion barn, and there a concentrated barbiturate was injected into his jugular. Forty-five seconds later there was a crash as the stallion collapsed. His body was trucked immediately to Lexington, Ky., where Dr. Thomas Swerczek, a professor of veterinary science at the University of Kentucky, performed the necropsy. All of the horse’s vital organs were normal in size except for the heart.

   “We were all shocked,” Swerczek said. “I’ve seen and done thousands of autopsies on horses, and nothing I’d ever seen compared to it. The heart of the average horse weighs about nine pounds. This was almost twice the average size, and a third larger than any equine heart I’d ever seen. And it wasn’t pathologically enlarged. All the chambers and the valves were normal. It was just larger. I think it told us why he was able to do what he did.”

   If you’ve never read it, do so. It’s a lyrical love letter to that fantastic, magical gentleman.

2. aelfheld says:

   June 5, 2015 at 3:27 pm

   Not a fan of horse-racing, but I do remember that one.