So where did this powerhouse of a racehorse with the overwhelming physical presence come from? Three years earlier he was romping about the fields of John D. Gunther’s Glennwood Farm outside Versailles, Kentucky alongside another colt, later to be named Vino Rosso. Gunther and his daughter Tanya, who plans all the matings, couldn’t believe it when Justify won the Santa Anita Derby and Vino Rosso won the Wood Memorial an hour and a half apart.
John, who is from Canada, goes to Kentucky six or seven times a year and stays for a week to 10 days, leaving Tanya to “micromanage” the farm.
Justify did quite well for a horse that PETA has been able to declare as lame
PETA Calls for Investigation Into Justify’s Apparent Lameness
Would be comparable to someone being elected President on his first run for office.
I have no interest in horse racing, but truly admire the physique of these critters.
my doggie is a part mastiff. a true gentlemen fully cognisant of his strength.
he let me clean out his ears on the weekend, despite objections and clamping very gently on my hand to show his displeasure which I dealt with by calmly speaking and rubbing them to make them feel better in the process.
a couple weeks after I adopted him I put him in the shed for a ‘time out’. well, he spent the ‘time’ tearing the door frame to pieces and squeezing the steel door knob so hard it looked like sumbuddy took a pick axe to it.
(hmmm, gittin out has sumptin to do wit dat round ting . . . . )
I weighed him on Monday. he’s gained 2 kg of solid muscle.
Q: why wouldja adopt an animal like dat?
A: you just answered yer own question . . . .