The usual fuck wit horsey set trying to justify the unjustifiable.
Race horses do not live like kings, they lead short unnatural lives. Way too expensive to be allowed out in fields to do horse stuff.
Horses are not inherantly fragile, the species would have died out millenia ago in that case. Thoroughbreds though are chronically inbred, again due to the actions of the horsey fuckwit franternity. They are skeletally unsound, the hearts and lungs are to large for the small rib cage, the feet are too small............I could go on and on. Do you think its normal for healthy young animals to keel over and die with amazing regularity? Athletes somebody said? I wonder how many human athletes will just drop down dead during the olympics? It happens to these horses because chronic frailty is bred into them to get the perfect racing physiology.
Horses do not love to race, that is a human concept. they do not by nature run to the point of collapse and hurle themselves at impossible large obstacles. to suggest that they do is fatuous.
They run beause they are herd dwelling prey animals, and the safest thing to do is to stay with the herd when something is chasing them. They are bolting and panic stricken, they are being beaten. They are not fucking racing. Why do they do it? Again because as social animals , and bless them, not too bright, it is in their nature to be trainable and amenable.
Horses die in fields, therefore that justifies the risk of steeplechasing? What the fuck kind of argument is that? Children get hurt in gardens, so hey, I may as well buy mine a chain saw for christmas because they will get injured anyway right?
Horseracing over produces thousands of horses every year in the hope of prodcing a winner. That becomes less and less likely the more inbred they become. The failures, or the old or the injured do not go into happy retirement or new homes. do not imagine that they do or be told that they do. The country is over run with unwanted horses as it is, without bringing broken down race horses into the mix. Statistics show that every year 50% of horses that leave racing are "unaccounted for" a year later. Anyone who claims differently is lying, those are the facts.
If members of the public were to knowingly put their pet dogs into situations where they had a high risk of death or serious injury, they would be prosecuted. Instead by some bizarre reasoning, when it is done to horses, it is televised as an entertainment and we are told that the carnage is glorious.
Please inform yourselves about these horrors. Do not be patronised and sneered at by the so called horse LOVERS who seek to justify this, by suggesting that people who abhor this are just ignorant about horses.
I am not ignorant in the least about horses, but as a true horse lover I will not be told that brutality and cruelty is anything other than what it is.
Please please read the links below, they are horrible, but they are the reality.
www.horsedeathwatch.com/
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