GREAT interview with Alex Brown...

[ASB Stars]

Alex Brown, who designed and runs the Friends of Barbaro site and his own, was interviewed on the Blood Horse. This is the transcript...the guy is just flat terrific!

http://www.bloodhorse.com/talkinhorses/AB062608.asp

[War Admiral]

Thanks for the link. Interesting interview.

I trust your judgment Stars - in your opinion, is it "safe" to go back to his forum nowadays? It got pretty scary over there for a while, so I've not been there since way before Barbaro died. I applaud the FOBs for the good that they manage to do, but there was definitely a time when I didn't care to be counted among them, if you get my drift...

[ASB Stars]

They are doing GREAT stuff- and I love Alex's attitude- he does not want to be the "be all and end all"- it isn't about HIM- he wants to set armies marching to do the right things-- read the interview!

And his group has helped several saddlebreds lately, including the poor black gelding who I have here- the FOBs raised the monies to pull him out of the kill pen at the "other" saein New Holland.

[LillianH]

I know what you mean, WA, but I, too, have a sweet old buggy horse out in my barn that FOB pooled $$ to save while I was standing at the sale fearing I didn't have the money to save him that day. I have to give them credit for that! Poor old guy is in terrible shape and I have no doubt he would not have survived the trip across the border - he would have gone down in the truck and been trampled. He is sweet and kind and I am thankful for FOB for being responsible for saving him! (This is the horse Lincoln, brought home the same day as Easter News for those of you keeping up!) :)

[kmmed1]

SBR has a horse that was saved by alexbrownracing.com, and we hope he finds a new home soon.

[War Admiral]

As I said - I give them full credit for what they do. I'm just asking whether the forum has improved any. Put it this way: as a busy amateur who is involved in rescue and has one horse, competes in three disciplines and has two jobs, I've got a limited amount of time to spend on horse forums. So if I sign up for one, it's NOT because I have a need to read people's fantasies about licking baked beans off of Dr. Richardson's private parts - which is the level that forum had descended to, last time I was on it. So I reiterate: has it gotten any better and is it worthwhile going back?

[ASB Stars]

WOW, I missed that!:oops:

It sounds like with your schedule, you might want to just stick with the minimum. How many posts are you up to on COTH?:001_rolleyes:

[LillianH]

I missed that one, too, but don't read the forums very much on ABR. Yikes! :ohmy:

Yes, thats right, too - the last one to go to SBR was courtesy of FOB, too.

[War Admiral]

WOW, I missed that!:oops:

It sounds like with your schedule, you might want to just stick with the minimum. How many posts are you up to on COTH?:001_rolleyes:

Haha, very true - six months in traction with a broken back will do that to ya! Care to try it some time? :wheelchair: If nothing else it does improve the ol' post count!

[mlinky]

As I said - I give them full credit for what they do. I'm just asking whether the forum has improved any. Put it this way: as a busy amateur who is involved in rescue and has one horse, competes in three disciplines and has two jobs, I've got a limited amount of time to spend on horse forums. So if I sign up for one, it's NOT because I have a need to read people's fantasies about licking baked beans off of Dr. Richardson's private parts - which is the level that forum had descended to, last time I was on it. So I reiterate: has it gotten any better and is it worthwhile going back?

Now War Admiral owes me a keyboard!!

[ASB Stars]

Haha, very true - six months in traction with a broken back will do that to ya! Care to try it some time? :wheelchair: If nothing else it does improve the ol' post count!

I can't picture being in traction, and on a computer. You are the woman! Still in all, doing over 14,000 posts is also quite an achievement!

[War Admiral]

I can't picture being in traction, and on a computer. You are the woman! Still in all, doing over 14,000 posts is also quite an achievement!

Laptops are your friend. ;) Have you been on COTH long enough to remember the uber-huge private topics they used to have, where you could have entire groups of people posting to the same PT? (Aefvue Farms was the last of them.) That's where a lot of us old-timers got the high post counts. DMK has 18,000+! :surrender: