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You nailed it.
But many people do not care about it. They just want to have fun and money at the same time. I am not sure what goes on in the mind of horse owners. Do they really have soft heart? I doubt that.

Let alone horses, considering cock, spiders, and dogs, if they just want to make fun, they will make everyone fight just to make something to bet on. Maybe they cannot resist the old habits they have and don't care about the animals after all. When I saw the no-choice in the eyes of those animals, I translate them as cruelty and those people involved in this somehow don't have any hospitality towards those animals when they lose the game.

Romans used dogs, lions and tigers in their games and had a lot of fun watching either people slay these beasts or people being eaten. We crave blood and cruelty, that's why in many countries animal abuse still isn't punished. It's common especially in countries where animals are considered to be working machines that we're supposed to bend to our will and throw away, because god or whatever prophet said so. I'm against animal abuse of any kind, but there's a thin line between making a horse perform for the audience (jumping, parades) and racing. Should we ban all activities that involve animals, like dog agility contests and such?

But horse racing is an entirely different matter.

Somehow I agree with this since it matters on how the owner handle those horses on their stables and most provably they give proper nutrition to their racing horses because if they didn't so that for sure they will lose if they want to race the horses they have. Maybe their are some cases that horses die in the race but I think this is kinda normal knowing this horses are engaging on what they call sports.