Re: Horse Racing and Gambling on it should be banned

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*.

Perhaps it makes sense to ban horse racing. I feel very sorry for the horses.

Unlike athletes - people, they cannot receive benefits in the form of monetary incentives. Nobody asks horses if they want to compete or not. In fact, they are being exploited by force. In fact, there is animal cruelty. It's not fair.

Exactly. If horses have free will and intelligence enough to avoid becoming a pawn for entertainment, they'd do it in a heartbeat. No incentives for racing horses after they won the game. Perhaps a few days/weeks of rest in their stables and then it's race time/practice time again. Oftentimes this is not even the case. If the horse wins the race, shortly after they will train it again to 'harden' the poor animal. It's cruel, and people who organize and enjoy this race should realize it.

As long money is involved or simply money talks then majority wont really be minding about those animal condition whether they do need some rest or some curing or something like that after a
race but instead they do really mind on how to make it even more better for the next race which is really indeed harsh.Is there something we can do about it? None.
Its their horses, therefore they do have the full rights on what they would gonna do into it.