{"id":15729,"date":"2014-09-29T06:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/horse-racing-blog\/2014\/09\/mothers-love-and-horse-racing-give-us-the-reins-well-take-er-from-here.html"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:40:03","slug":"mothers-love-and-horse-racing-give-us-the-reins-well-take-er-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/horse-racing-blog\/2014\/09\/mothers-love-and-horse-racing-give-us-the-reins-well-take-er-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers’ Love and Horse Racing: Give Us the Reins, We’ll Take ‘er from Here."},"content":{"rendered":"
For 11 years now, I’ve ranted, cajoled and begged <\/b>for the world of horse racing to See it This Way, that women must participate fully in the sport <\/b>in order for it to grow and thrive–both in the United States and elsewhere around the world. (I must note here that this argument applies only to Thoroughbred<\/b> horse racing, for it appears that in the world of Arabian horse racing<\/b>–misogyny and gender exclusion is noticeably absent.)<\/i><\/p>\n It hurts me to write this<\/b>–I’m crying as I recall this story. But, as sad as is the foundation of this experience–the punchline completely overrides the sadness. So I must write to get to that punchline, so that I can stop crying and get on with Life…
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