Horse racing feels a lot like college athletics.
Horse racing doesn't "feel" like anything. It might
seem like something.
The word is
seems despite all the "parrots" out there without brain one.
I even heard the vastly over-rated Dan Patrick (his middle name) Pugh, his real name, "correcting" himself a while back on his radio show beginning to say
seems and than switching to the abhorrent "fells like". Shameful.
That move doesn't make a person
seem "with it" like interjections such as hip, cool, or "right-on" do. Rather, it makes a person seem ignorant and shallow, interested in affectation instead of straight forward communication or talk. Again, they think they sound cool, but rather come across as shallow. And, instead, they sound ignorant, foolish, and annoying.
To put it another way, would you jump off a bridge because everybody else was doing it, or drink the "kool-aid" because everyone else in Jim Jones cult of the late 1970's did so? I hope not.