I was spending some time with my friends parents and there was not only a huge party but all of them placed p2p bets on the horse racing. They asked me to come over as well, the ending was deeply sad and essential to cover : The horse died after winning of a heart attack.
The horse was presenting signs of heart attack on the camera but no one was actually even giving it a second thought and at the end when it was the last lap, all the horses got whipped excessively hard as well. That gets me to my point "why do you support horse racing?" This is honestly far to cruel to continue.
According the this site:
https://www.horsedeathwatch.com/background.php they have seen more than 2000 deaths in around 5500 days. Most of the horses die during the match as well, they also have instances where they are exploited using drugs (doping).
Are you aware that most of the horses go through slaughter as well? Some of them have very bad injuries making them not even the least bit useful for the business therefore they are killed without second thought. I do hope people would get more aware and try and steer away from *horse racing*.
Horse racing has faced such problems for decades and not much has changed since then, only the top racehorses receive good treatment while the rest receive awful treatment, and that is not even the worst part as there have been cases where the owners of racehorses which had great potential but failed to win kill the racehorse to receive the insurance money, this seems to have been the case in the death of Alydar which is considered to be the best racehorse to never win a championship, so without a doubt a great reform is needed but so far I do not see too much interest on doing so.