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   9619 | Feb 22, 2010 09:06pm | #1

   Jimmy,

   I am pretty sure that it is more difficult to find the new posts in the new system.  You just have to wade through the entire set and check them out.  Oh well.   A lot of us would like to go back to the old way, but it ain't gonna happen.  So we either stay and live with it or leave.   A lot of folks have left.   I don't use Knots as often as I used to, but it works well for many things. 

   Is the glass half empty or half full?

   Mel

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   WillGeorge | Feb 23, 2010 07:04am | #2

   Forest..

   Secondly, you have to train your eyes to see the red "New" . What red?

   Sorry, just funnin ya' a bit... Glad to see you back a bit more these days!

   A totally off of the subject question for you as a horse lover.

   Last week I saw something on TV about thoroughbred horses. All the people that were were walking the horses looked so plain.  NO, not my real question..

   All of the thoroughbred horses were blindfolded by a hood that covered their eyes as they were walked around. They appeared to very trustworthy of the walker. Are those horses that skittish that they need the blindfold or is there another reason?

   Thanks...

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   forestgirl | Feb 25, 2010 01:01am | #4

   Those may have been the youngest of the racehorses -- 2-year-old thoroughbreds.  The eye-coverings are called "blinders" and keep the horse from being distracted by activities or objects in their peripheral and rear-vision (horses eyes are set to the sides of their heads by nature, to enable them to perceive attacks by predators from the side and the rear -- they don't have super-good binocular vision to the front the way humans and apes, for instance, do).

   With blinders on, they can see the horses in front of them in a race, but not stuff off to the sides/back.  I can only speculate that these were the youngest horses, hence the need to have blinders as they're not used to the frenetic activity of the racetrack environment.

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   jimmy | Feb 24, 2010 06:41pm | #3

   Thats it...thanks...

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   Jfrostjr | Feb 25, 2010 09:36am | #5

   Thanks Jamie. I did not know of either of those techniques.

   Jerry