1a: to gather into storage
b: to deposit as if in a granaryvolumes in which he has garnered the fruits of his lifetime labors— Reinhold Niebuhr
2a: to acquire by effort : EARNgarnered much praise for his fundraising
b: ACCUMULATE, COLLECT
There is a post on the Paulick Report Facebook page of Silver Charm charging across his paddock for grain. He is what?, 25?, and looks awesome. Guess the radiation did not hurt him.
Not sure if this link works, hope it does:
Silver Charm is a 1994 model. Entertains visitors at Old Friends and also comes for carrots or when asked who the best racehorse of all time is, accompanied by raising the carrot bucket.
Oh that is absolutely priceless! I never dressed up to that degree for my own parents’ funeral. But whatever gets them out of bed every morning.
I understand many of the Chrome fans must be a royal pain for the owners/caregivers of CC, but dang they are entertaining for me. I do hope he comes back to the US someday, I’d love to visit him if they place him in at a retirement farm. People love to diss him as not being a ‘real racehorse’, but he sure won a lot of money and had a huge fan following. That’s more than some of the KY blue-bloods have done.
I think the over the top Chromies - the ones who lambast others for not being “true Chromies”, who call him their pet and America’s horse, who say they know what he is feeling and that he is like a human, not a horse (and no one but them understands that), who say Taylor Made was not successful before CC came there and will now go bankrupt, who think that a group of them can somehow buy him back and are completely clueless… have done a great deal of “damage” to CC’s reputation and image. CC used to just have Steve Coburn raging and ranting after the Belmont with his wife telling him to stop in the background - but now he has hundreds of Chromies doing much worse.
They went berserk when he shipped to Chile, they were upset that American Pharaoh won the TC as that would take attention away from CC, they lost their little minds when they saw pictures and videos of CC being loaded on every plane… they were irate and devastated when Lucky Pulpit died during a breeding (sex slaves!! cruelty!!)… when CC’s dam was sold… they think they own the poor guy and Taylor Made or whoever is managing CC should bow to their expertise and wisdom…
The advent of social media has gone a long way toward breaking down the rules for what used to be considered normal behavior. My horses are by no means famous, but I’ve had people I’d never met show up at a training center, tell the trainer I’d sent them and ask to see my horses breeze for them. :eek: The trainer called me after the people left, apologetic that he hadn’t been able to fulfill “my request” since my 2yos weren’t yet breezing.
Several people I later told that story to, said they couldn’t understand why I thought that kind of intrusion was a problem.
People see horses on TV or online and think they “know” them or deserve to have access. Being a fan ( from the word fanatic) seems to somehow entitle them to make decisions for the horses’ care, naming, training, and well-being.
And sometimes it does seem downright scary–like when we showed up at our Keeneland barn one afternoon to find a family of five strolling inside the shed row with a baby carriage and an unleashed dog. When we arrived, the daughter (who looked to be about three) had climbed under a big colt’s stall guard and was kneeling in the straw hugging his front legs, while the baby cried, the dog barked and the father tried to snap a picture. I just about had a heart attack. The family thought we were being incredibly mean for shooing them away because the little girl loooooved horses and wanted to see them up close so how could that possible hurt since they were just standing in their stalls?
Yes, the Chromies’ sense of entitlement seems bizarre but they’re certainly not the only ones who feel that way.
@LaurieB I don’t know if your stories are :eek: or :rolleyes: or ouch…
I think also not just entitlement but as it’s been discussed here and other topics, people have lost touch with the ‘reality’ of animals. All they see and know of animals are what are on TV or in the movies… they don’t see them up close and in person to know how animals act or how people should act around said animals. It’s not like animals are accurately portrayed in children’s TV/movies and also not accurately in many adult TV/movies.
There’s a marked difference between “fans” and “stans”. CC has far too many of the latter category. They are determined to cling to their version of the story, even though it’s not hard to get a grip on basic facts in the interwebz age. They revel in their ignorance.
Saw one post yesterday proclaiming that Chrome would end up like Ferdinand, who - did you know this? - was not only slaughtered, but “served as the entree at a fancy banquet”! I mean, wtf? Where do they come up with this load of excrement?
I saw that… they do not even bother to know all the details about Ferdinand’s tale and could not pick him out of a line up of photos if they tried. But now he is their rallying cry… and most of them ignore the fact that there is a right of first refusal and a Ferdinand clause attached to CC’s sale… as well as a pension at - as they think they are so witty to say - Traitor Made.
They are fond of howling that this horse deserves better than this! Well, they have that part right… yes, he does… he deserves better than to have a shrill crowd of OTT “fans” think he is their personal teddy bear who must be protected from all the Meanies Out There at all costs and they know what must be done and everyone and everything else involved in racing is now the devil incarnate and must be shouted down and “exposed”…
If only all the people howling that CC deserves better were willing to chip in, say, $25,000 apiece to buy the horse. Then they could protect him from the Meanies rather than just shrieking online.
Someone actually did an estimate of # of Chromie stans and how much it would take for each to chip in to raise (an arbitrary figure chosen by the poster as I don’t think the sale price has been made public) $18 mil. It was $5K apiece, and he said he was in and exhorted the rest to pony up.
Never mind that the horse has been sold already and they’re failing to include ongoing costs of things like basic care and insurance and who pays for that. I am surprised there hasn’t been a Go Fund Me started.
There was a post a couple of weeks back where one of Chrome’s daughters that Taylor Made sent to a rescue. Some of you might be familiar with her, she lost an eye in an accident. The reaction was amazing. The chrome is home junkies lost their minds. Then the whole discussion went poof.
