This is why I bought a separate crock pot that lives at work. Carrying a large crock pot filled with whatever I made just became too much of a hassle.

Or Y or X(I think?) if it’s a truck. I can’t remember if the truck plates are on X now but I know they are done with Y.

I can only find a pic of one on an Ohio plate but it’s the same general principle. Generally it means they are, or are family of, or are close friends with a cop. Or they donated a $h!+ ton of money to their local police force. What it ends up being is carte blanche to ignore any law pertaining to traffic that they…

I can’t help but equate it with the Santa Claus from The Ref. Maybe most people think he’s harmless when in reality he’s a viscous drunk who needs Dennis Leary to punch him in the face.

I honestly never thought we would see another Triple Crown either, I’d written it off as something I was just not fortunate enough to have been born in time to see the last. Sadly, and nothing against the horse, but I didn’t want Zayat to win it, there are better owners, more deserving who put their heart and soul…

AP’s splits stand at: 24.06, 24.77, 24.58, 24.58, 24.34 and 24.32. Fast he was not. I am shocked no one else ran him down. He accelerated a little in the final half mile and quarter, but not in any spectacular way as it was implied he had. He may have run the fastest final quarter mile in Belmont Stakes history, but…

18 is just the average age of the broodmares on the farm, not the average age they die at. I’ve re-homed a lot of my older mares when they stop catching in the breeding shed and I’ve had more than a few go on to become beginner riding horses despite their age. The temperament varies from horse to horse but the…

American Pharoah was never pushed by his competition, had Materiality gone up to press him the way Pletcher implied he would then I would have expected the half mile to be 46 secs, maybe even 45 secs, certainly not 48, I’ve seen ponies run a 48 sec half mile. The pace was glacial and Vic was most assuredly whipping…

Those numbers would give him 8% SW. That’s decent, not great. Medaglia d’Oro stands around 13%, Galileo is near 20%. Those are their 2015 numbers and you have to account for the fact that stallions cover a much larger book of mares now than they did thirty years ago. It’s harder to get those averages with more foals…

Really, because I’ve never seen less than 650 foals, closer to 700 is the more common report I’ve found. 24 GSW1 winners, and I’ve never seen a definitive number of SW though in the upper 30s or 40s are the numbers floated. There simply wasn’t the amount of record keeping three decades ago, the numbers you report are…

He never reproduced himself, Risen Star was good, he was not his daddy. I’d love to know where you got your numbers, I’ve yet to find a progeny break down of Secretariat that doesn’t include some guesswork and the numbers I’ve seen suggest his GSW1 winners to be around 3% and his GSW winners to be only just above…

Most of the horses AP faced ran in one of the other Triple Crown races, some skipped the Preakness yes, but that is their perogative, the races are not, and never have been connected. Don’t be blinded by Steve Coburn’s diarreah of the mouth, Belmont is the test of champions for the competition as well as the distance.

By rough estimate, AP was 1 sec back at the 1/4 mile, 2 secs back at the 1/2 mile, 4 secs back at 3/4 of a mile so he would have been slowly dropping farther and farther back against Secretariat, at the mile marker he would have started to close the distance but he would still have been well back at the finish. Both…

They are raced and trained more lightly because of popular demand, proper starting and loading of young horses actually improves their ability and strengthens their bones. The ban on steroids also helped with the number of break downs, horses aren’t more delicate now than they ever were, we just treat them like they…

Your friend apparently has bad luck with thoroughbreds, the low end of the scale age wise for my broodmares is ten, I have a mare in foal that will be 29 when she foals out next year. The average age is probably around 18. I have an employee with similar luck, no matter how hardy the horse before she buys it/rescues…

A lot of horses are a descendant of Secretariat, he was a great race horse and prolific in the breeding shed, that does not mean he was a good sire. The horse you want to see is Weekend Surprise, that’s the only portion of Seccy’s pedigree that matters these days.

This is a common misconception, a good horse on a track it likes is not going to just edge out the competition. These horses are bred to run and they want to run, if they can keep pulling away they will, jockeys aren’t going to pull up their mounts because the margin for victory is huge, put away the whip, sure, but…

I think history will prove out American Pharoah’s freak status as well, his sire, Pioneerof the Nile is a mediocre stud at best, while this will raise his status in the breeding shed, with all sorts of breeders throwing mares at him you most likely won’t see another of his offspring reach this level. I’m not trying to…

I would guess it had something to do with the girl being surrounded by his(the proposer’s) family with no way to escape. Talk about forcing the, “yes.” Even had I been willing to say yes under other circumstances I’d probably have bi+ch slapped him for that despite the audience but still.....

Yep, keep them blinders firmly on, your profession explains a lot. You get paid to advocate “for workers” so of course you support unions. I accepted I wouldn’t be earning major cash when I went to college for my degrees in animal sciences and equine sciences. I wanted to work with horses, I’d rather be happy than…