Concern

So in my last post, I mentioned that we went to a local rodeo. It's no pumpkin bumpkin type rodeo but it's nothing so amazing that it has national publicity. It's a local rodeo with local people on the circuit.

So I was shocked when a friend said she watched someone inject a horse with something. I have no idea what nor do I want to know. But come on, this is not nationals, the money isn't that big to risk your horse. It doesn't warrant doping your horse up. Shame on you for drugging your horse. I did see the same person rub some type of cream on the horse's hock.

The second day, those people were gone but they'd left their trash laying on the ground. The cream AND the needle! SERIOUSLY?? You left that for someone else to pick up? I wasn't thinking, I was in such shock. But I should have picked up the needle and had my vet figure out what was in the needle that this person injected into her horse.

If you have to go so far as to dope up your horse and inject something "to make him run faster", then it's time to retire the horse and look for a new project. The more I think about it, the more angry I get. I guess it's a good thing that I'm not around the racing circuit, I'd probably go ballistic.