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*.
That does indeed sound overly cruel to the horse but then again if we look at ourselves as humans and see what horrors we are commiting against other living creatures then its nothing out of the ordinary.
If an alien race saw us doing the things that we do to animals, especially animals that we kill to eat then that alien race would probably stay as far as possible away from the human race.
Its still a tragedy though. Horse racing is definitely one of the many horrors we commit on other life.