Grand National

[boyla]

Andre
The absence of horse racing, would mean a absence of horses who participate.
If a thousand horses do not race, which is considered cruel, they would not be allowed to survive and reproduce.
They would be eaten or kill as pests.

Is it cruel to race a horse, or to deny it a existence.
By banishing horse racing you are not saving a horse, you are condemning its genetic survival.
Any existence(life) is better than none at all.

[Andre]

Andre
The absence of horse racing, would mean a absence of horses who participate.
If a thousand horses do not race, which is considered cruel, they would not be allowed to survive and reproduce.
They would be eaten or kill as pests.

Is it cruel to race a horse, or to deny it a existence.
By banishing horse racing you are not saving a horse, you are condemning its genetic survival.
Any existence(life) is better than none at all.

I agree mate, And to most it sounds like an over emotional "leave the animals alone" thing but it isnt.

Racing is fine theres risks but its fine..

They dont all steeple chase.there are probably 30 events for horses of all sorts of makes and models.Theres loads of other single events and even team events and sports on horse back so we arent going to start eating them all.

Show jumping is one thing,endurance is another and racing another but to do both a race and a jump at a gallop and to change gait at a gallop isnt natural, thus the damage.


Straight racing is fine, straight hurdles not so bad, but to place a water trough lower than the track level immediately after a hurdle is just plain stupid,thats why they have shot guns and vets at each turn.

Race horses are more flighty than say a quarter horse or endurance horse or a show jumper,they are on high tech go fast food, so they go into shock even faster than normal (which is very fast anyway) and die or fuck themselves up further aside from the broken leg thing.