This is too strange. N’ampshire’s Old Man crumbles, the building on Maryland’s coin has been struck by lightning, Kentucky put a thoroughbred on their two bits only to see a gelding win the derby. Here’s a link to more of the details.
Yeah, and Abraham Lincoln, who appears on the Illinois quarter, got shot! :eek:
And in other late breaking news …
There’s a man in a spacesuit on the Ohio quarter, and the Columbia blew up!!!
There’s a guitar on the Tennessee version - and it’s out of tune!!!
That’s a non-sequitir. Gelding and thoroughbred are not mutually exclusive.
Mutually exclusive or not, how many Mr. Ed’s do you suppose would brag about being a gelding as opposed to those who would brag about being a thoroughbred? Still a pretty disastrous turn of events from the horse’s perspective, no?
Mr. Ed was a gelding.
I think, more to the point, it was a gelding from New York who won it.
I’ll put it this way…
After retirement, a derby winner usually has one occupation to look forward to, and geldings don’t share that fate. M’kay?
He gave dear old dad one hell of a fathers day gift though…
Yep, especially because his dad’s going to be in even more demand now, while he’ll be spending more time racing and not be rushed out “to pasture.”
Kentucky’s inclusion in this story is a real stretch. I’m surprised the writer didn’t go ahead and “find” examples of a curse in all 22 state quarters, his standards being so low.
That horse isn’t a thoroughbred . . .
. . . it’s a quarter horse.
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The biggest curse has been how ugly most of the damn things have been. (RI, CT & VA excluded).
And upon receiving my first Alabama quarter, all I have to say is:
That poor Helen Keller. She’s put on a quarter, and the next thing you know is, she’s deaf, blind and dead!
He was also, for a while, a zebra.
Funny Cide is a thoroughbred…just a gelded one. How is this disastrous?
I went to the track last weekend and saw a gelding named Very Unic. The announcer pronounced it ‘unique’, but I think he missed the point.
Speaking as a guy, few things imaginable could possibly be more disastrous than being gelded.
I’ll also wager a pretty penny that Funny Cide’s owner is up late drinking off the fact that this triple crown contender is a genetic dead end.
From what I’ve seen and heard, it’s highly unlikely he’d be a contender for anything if he wasn’t a gelding. Instead, he’ll be racing for years and making tons of money that way.