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Originally Posted by For My Coby  I love the way you "direct".  
JMO and says nothing about this particular horse's owners and handlers:
I have very limited experience in horse racing. Did go to a few with my father in law. The "theory" behind racing, to me, seems genuine. These horses love to run. They are bred for that characteristic. Many of them are most likely happiest when running. Many of them (but like with all animals, not all) are well cared for.
But I do have experience with drag racing and other forms of racing. Like in all sports, the living organism - competition - creates the environment. Car racers work night and day to figure out how to make their cars go faster, be more powerful, or how to come up with a "secret" (legal and safe or not) to trump the other racers. The problem that I have with horse and dog races (aside from the obvious concern of what happens to them after their careers) is that humans are making those decisions and program changes not on a high performance machine - but on a living breathing animal.
So while maybe the concept of animal racing may be fine for many of those animals that revel in it, in this day and age, perhaps we as a human race have tarnished it to a point that it isn't right. |
Too late to edit, so just let me add:
After reading some of Sugar's Mom's additional info regarding the laws and such, perhaps my last sentence shouldn't be that "it isn't right" but that it needs even more attention. I am not well-versed in the sport, so I don't want to mis- or over-speak. But I have always worried about the "human" and sometimes flawed components of all animal sports.