Kentucky Derby: Big Brown And Eight Belles

I don’t know how many of you watched the Kentucky Derby

this weekend, as I did. But it was a fascinating race, the horses

seemed to all be, in good form, there might have been a little

brushing of two horses, but over all, the race was run fairly safe,

and clean. Big Brown was a favorite to win, there was another

horse in the race, named Eight Belles, this horse, a filly, was

chosen by Senator Hillary Clinton to win the race. While she

was campaigning, she asked her audience, at one of her stops,

to cheer for Eight Belles, if I am not mistaken, Eight Belles

was a long shot, running against thoroughbreds, in the race.

Female horse against male horses, naturally the horse would

be at a disadvantage, due to stamina, or just the build of male

horse, as opposed to a female horse. I am sure fillies, have won

against male horses in the past. Now, mind you, no one told

Mrs. Clinton, I’m sure, and maybe they should have, why

put yourself on the line like that, if the horse comes in last, you

have to make some kind of excuse for your choice, having lost.

But no, she took the risk, what the heck, it’s only a horse race.

Now, I will let you draw your own conclusions, because I am

talking about symbolism here. Not only did Big Brown win the

race, I won’t put any one person’s name up, as to who Big Brown

might represent here but, well, we’ll leave it there. But here’s

what happened, Big Brown won, by leaving all the other horses

at least two lengths behind. But poor Eight Belles, and I do feel

sorry for the horse, I love horses, fell down on the track, after the

the race was over, and broke her two front ankles. She had run so

hard, she was probably overly stressed, the only thing they could

do, after examining Eight Belles, was to employ euthanasia. Sad,

sad, set of events for the poor horse.

I do look at circumstances, and I look at outcomes, and symbolic

instances. When George H. W. Bush, was running against Bill

Clinton, and he visited China, I believe, for some kind of

ceremonial dinner, he happened to get sick, or was sick and was

unlucky enough, to have cameras rolling, when he upchucked

and passed out on the floor. All this was on television, before an

international audience. At that time, I said to myself, he’s going

to lose the election. Symbolic. When Senator Bob Dole, was

campaigning against Bill Clinton, and was standing on a stage,

outdoors, he reached down after his speech, to shake some of his

well wishers hands, and Mr. Dole lost his balance, fell off the stage,

on to the ground, didn’t hurt himself, maybe his pride, but he

jumped right up and went on shaking hands, as if nothing had

happened.

No problem, but again, symbolic, to me anyway. I

said to myself , when I saw him falling, on tape, on the news,

later, he’s going to lose. Symbolic. Now this is all conjecture

on my part, and maybe Senator Clinton won’t lose the primary

election, but, in my eyes, by her selecting Eight Belles, and the

horse running its heart out, like crazy, to win the Kentucky Derby,

one of the biggest prizes in horse racing, it is very ironic, that after

trying so very hard to capture something, that was not going to be

hers, the poor horse, is now in horse heaven, don’t laugh. Big Brown,

on the other hand, goes on, to find out if he can be, a triple crown

winner this year. Just speculating, take it all, with a grain of salt,

symbolism.

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