Dance Smartly - Not Good News

Ara Davies · Post by **Ara Davies** » 17 years ago

The old girl was put down this weekend due to "irreperable injury".

<a href='http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing ... nized.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing ... ed.aspx</a>

Brianna McKenzie · Post by **Brianna McKenzie** » 17 years ago

Heartbreaking...

I'm no longer sulking, it's so much worse than that now.

<a href='http://samsonfarm.com/' target='_blank'>http://samsonfarm.com/</a> Nice close up of the big girl.

Ara Davies · Post by **Ara Davies** » 17 years ago

Bri, you were the first person I thought of when I saw this. I'm so sorry.

Laura Ferguson · Post by **Laura Ferguson** » 17 years ago

Awful news. I found this article on Sam-Son's website and thought I'd share:

<a href='http://samsonfarm.com/news/news.shtml' target='_blank'>http://samsonfarm.com/news/news.shtml</a>

Mandy Saunders · Post by **Mandy Saunders** » 17 years ago

And now Life's Magic

<a href='http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=40364' target='_blank'>http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/viewstor ... d=40364</a>

Anna Leroux · Post by **Anna Leroux** » 17 years ago

so sad for both of them, but for Life's Magic the best way to go

Laura Smith · Post by **Laura Smith** » 17 years ago

No.
No.

Nonononononononono

Brianna McKenzie · Post by **Brianna McKenzie** » 17 years ago

Wow.. Daisy made the news. My local radio station was even wise enough to say "The racing world is mourning the loss of.."

Granted I'm confused about the stifle/knee comment but still.

Canadian Triple Crown champion Dance Smartly euthanized at age 19
August 21, 2007 - 17:27

MILTON, Ont. (CP) - Dance Smartly, the 1991 Canadian Triple Crown champion, has died after suffering an injury in her paddock.

She was euthanized on the weekend after suffering an irreparable injury related to an arthritic stifle joint in her knee. She was 19.

Bred in Ontario by Sam-Son Farm, Dance Smartly went undefeated in 1991 en route to winning the Queen's Plate, the Prince of Wales Stakes and Breeders' Stakes. She also became the first Canadian-bred horse to win a Breeders' Cup race that year.

A granddaughter of legendary racehorse Northern Dancer, she was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1995.

"Dance Smartly was a once-in-a-lifetime horse," Sam-Son Farm president Tammy Samuel-Balaz said in a statement. "She was magic and gave us incredible thrills as both a racehorse and a broodmare.

"While we were fortunate enough to have bred and owned her, she truly was Canada's horse."

LaDonna King · Post by **LaDonna King** » 17 years ago

Laura Smith wrote: No.
No.

Nonononononononono

it...

there are children who read these post....

S.C. Burns · Post by **S.C. Burns** » 17 years ago

LaDonna King wrote:
Laura Smith wrote: No.
No.

Nonononononononono

Goddamn it...
there are children who read these post....

And their parents should be reading it with them, and thus buffering anything which they would deem offensive.

Post by **The Steward** » 17 years ago

Ladonna has a very valid point. There are a lot of 9 and 10 year olds on this game. I doubt their parents play the SIM with them.

Daryl Dennis · Post by **Daryl Dennis** » 17 years ago

The law is different everywhere, but most online companies do not allow those under 13 to participate in any function that allows for open communication. Myspace is a great example and they have been put through the ringer for having lax controls on this.

If someone under 13 is being allowed on an open forum, then their parents should expect some level of unfiltered commentary. If they are being allowed to open accounts without parent permission, then it is a whole different can of worms.

For the record, what was said is a whole lot cleaner than the average exclamation of concern or anger on just about any school playground. But I digress.

-Daryl

Paul Heinrich · Post by **Paul Heinrich** » 17 years ago

I didn't let my son on the forum until I had been here a few weeks, and I was duly convinced it was "safe". By safe, I don't mean naughty-word free. And I don't think naughty words are why myspace was put through the ringer, either. I'm certainly not speaking for every parent who has a younger child who plays this game, but Daryl is right - he hears much worse on the playground.

For the record, my son rarely comes to the forum, if at all. And if swearing is the worst thing he ever does, he'll be a saint in my book.

Daryl Dennis · Post by **Daryl Dennis** » 17 years ago

Oh, Myspace definitely got put through the ringer for other reasons. But it started completely with their tacit allowance of children to open accounts so long as they don't list themselves as being underage. Once those who shouldn't be on open forums are allowed there, then it becomes very difficult to shield them from the things that society (or a parent) has decided that they should not experience (though I am not sure that the term in question even qualifies).

Sure, I don't really want profanity-laced diatribes on things like sortable columns to become commonplace. That is mainly because profanity, when overused, loses its meaning. Still, as they say "It isn't the horses that are real, it is the emotions!" Plus, in this case, the horse was real too!

-Daryl

Ara Davies · Post by **Ara Davies** » 17 years ago

Daryl Dennis wrote: For the record, what was said is a whole lot cleaner than the average exclamation of concern or anger on just about any school playground. But I digress.

When I was nine or ten, the worst words I knew were "poop" and "crap". And I grew up in a military household.

Maybe I was just stupid.