Covfefe trumps in Breeders' Cup
November 2, 2019 9:50 PM   Subscribe

Remember "covfefe"? Well, a few months after a certain U.S. President launched that famous meme, a Thoroughbred filly was purchased at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale and named by owner Jaime Roth of LNJ Foxwoods. This year Covfefe has been one of the top three-year-old fillies in North America. Today she capped a nearly flawless season when she posted a three-quarter-length victory in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita Park.
posted by e-man (14 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
SHE WILL SWIM!
posted by Pastor of Muppets at 11:07 PM on November 2, 2019


I would prefer a different reality.
posted by nestor_makhno at 11:41 PM on November 2, 2019 [20 favorites]


I'm sorry, we're fresh out of different realities. Perhaps I could interest you in a revolution?
posted by Lizard at 1:27 AM on November 3, 2019 [15 favorites]


If I was the person calling the race, I would giggle every time I said it.
posted by mightshould at 2:44 AM on November 3, 2019


If I was the person calling the race I would pronounce “ovf” like a dry heave.
posted by Meatbomb at 4:08 AM on November 3, 2019


I'm off to rescue a pupper and name him/her "Turns out there was collusion, obstruction, and corruption all along!" Look for us at Westminster next year.
posted by cmfletcher at 4:08 AM on November 3, 2019 [3 favorites]


I'd bet good money that this fact is making some QANON folks salivate.
posted by es_de_bah at 7:08 AM on November 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


I've come to suspect racehorse names are the last, desperate gasping reach for a creative outlet among the sort of people who own race horses. Well, those and boat names.

But, I've got to admit I'd bet on the offspring of Into Mischief and Antics, just on general principle.

At least it wasn't a pun.
posted by eotvos at 7:22 AM on November 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


the thing that no one really talks about w/r/t covfefe is that the covfefe tweet didn't capture the popular imagination because it was funny or stupid or whatever. it captured the popular imagination because for the hours between the covfefe tweet and the official response, we thought there was a chance, a slight but real chance, that the evil little fucker had stroked out mid-tweet and that therefore we wouldn't have to deal with him anymore.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 8:39 AM on November 3, 2019 [5 favorites]


I'm glad she survived the race. Not every horse at Santa Anita was as lucky yesterday.
posted by gladly at 8:44 AM on November 3, 2019 [4 favorites]


Yeah, I have seen several articles over the past year about horse deaths at Santa Anita. No horse should be running there.
posted by Glinn at 11:57 AM on November 3, 2019


Why keep harping about Trump making a dumb typo, the most relatable thing he did that day?

This is someone who does entirely the wrong thing constantly, on a scale unmatched in history. I can't even imagine getting things wrong on the scale he does it.
posted by w0mbat at 12:06 PM on November 3, 2019


it attracted our collective interest because we thought he was dead. the later media conversation presented it as something that attracted our collective interest because it was funny, because they cannot accept that most of us wish the man would just die already and needed to recontextualise covfefe in order to cover up for that fact.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 3:29 PM on November 3, 2019 [1 favorite]


I hoped this was about Kim and Kelly Deal's band and then I thought it was about Breeders in the dismissive sense describing humans who deign to reproduce and now I learn it's just more rich people things. Faux pastoralism FTW.
posted by aspersioncast at 5:03 AM on November 5, 2019


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