{"id":27040,"date":"2025-01-14T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/blood-on-their-hands-armory-of-the-revolution\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T21:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T21:31:43","slug":"blood-on-their-hands-armory-of-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=27040","title":{"rendered":"Blood on Their Hands | Armory of the Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We activists talk often about horses falling through the ranks \u2013 their value dropping with their \u201cproduction\u201d as they make their way from elite tracks to seedy racinos. More often than not, this ends badly \u2013 for most, slaughter, for others, simply being run into the ground, with each successive \u201cconnection\u201d trying to suck one last dime from the increasingly spent horse. The recently deceased 9-year-old Ike Walker (below) is a prime example of the latter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/armoryoftherevolution.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2238.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51378\" src=\"https:\/\/armoryoftherevolution.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_2238.jpg?w=700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ike was made by Buck Pond Farm in January 2012. Like the chattel he was, Ike was peddled for $125,000 at a Keeneland yearling sale. First raced at two (of course) in July 2014, Ike would spend the first five years or so of his \u201ccareer\u201d running at what are considered some of the best tracks in America \u2013 Arlington, Keeneland, Churchill, Oaklawn, Del Mar, Santa Anita. 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