I don't think I'll go to any anymore and I live in a city that has a famous racetrack.
2006-07-19 22:37:38 · 16 answers · asked by Blah Blah Blah 4 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
The PROBLEM I have with Thoroughbred racing is these animals are racing as 2 year olds, and a horses' bones are not hard(mature) until they are at least 3-4 years old. This is why you see these youngsters breaking legs during races, why they're broken down by the time they're 6.
Yes, if they're bred to it, some horses love to race. However, in a natural state, horses are grazers, they meander, they like to stand. They walk, they eat, they don't run as a general rule. Watch horses at liberty sometime. They're rather quiet. (Yes, youngsters play, all little ones play)
Race horses are athletes, and they are usually very well treated. But, like anything else, there are good people and bad people in racing. Some horses are treated poorly.
Personally, I haven't watched racing since that ill-fated match race with a beautiful filly named Ruffian. I refuse. I don't want to see any more horses go down with life-threatening fractures so some rich guy can make a little more money.
2006-07-20 13:02:41 · answer #1 · answered by Suzette R 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Okay truthfully, think that thoroughbred racing is one of the only sports that has as much intencity between horses and people.I have 6 off the track race horses because they were too old too race without getting hurt or too win anymore. I mean really do you think a thoroughbred would race if they were being abused or not taken care of? I dont, thoroughbreds are athletes that have a heart and a mind that is set on the finish line and accomplishing what ever you put in front of them. And if they didnt want to win they wouldnt race they wouldnt even come out of the gate. Some of the horses even break their own legs just trying so hard to win and be the best, it is not the owners or the trainers that are making them hurt themselves, and if they didnt try like this and we pushed them then it would be cruel. But theyare doing this and racing by themselves and and if they did not want to win they wouldnt. Racing is everybit of humane and one of the only sports that jockey and horse can connect and make the outsome what ever the two agree on. Horse racing is humane....
2006-07-21 17:17:16 · answer #2 · answered by captian obvious 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some races seem better than others. Look at Barbaro the horse that broke its leg in the Kentucky Derby. How much money do you think theyve spent on him?He's a racer and has the very best of everything.Then there are the races that do not have million dollar prizes and so you have people who dont care. There are good and bad in everything I think it is a moral issue and its up to you to decide if you want to participate. Horses do love to race. And race horses or thoroughbreds are built to race, their hearts are bigger and their bodies are built to run. I think people should speak up if you see someone hurting their animals. Thats why we have the ASPCA. and Humane society.
2006-07-20 07:04:19 · answer #3 · answered by crazymomma_jos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I worked on a breeding training racing farm and at the track.
Most of the horses there are treated very very well.
They are well fed and get great vet care. They are top flight athletes and are treated like one.
They race until they no longer have a productive career and are then retired. Some go stand as a stud others are broodmares and many are taken and sold into new homes where they are re-trained and go on to have a second career as a riding horse.
I have an OTTB who is now a great trail horse. He loves his second home. He still loves to run and when I turn him out to pasture he will still run as fast as he can go and make a couple of laps around the pasture. They run because they love to run.
2006-07-20 08:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by tlctreecare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
horse RACES are humane as the Jockey Club can keep an eye on whats going on during the race to make sure that an animal is being abused. Is it the time that the horse is off the track that is what worries me. The Jockey Clubs eye can only wander so far.
2006-07-20 21:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not a fan of horse racing. I don't think they treat the animals like they deserve to be treated. They are raced to exhaustion, and then thrown away when they get "old" or not as fast as they used to...
Also, I have seen retired race horses that had scars from where the jockey whips made them bleed. It's just a cruel sport, and they could be doing more constructive things with their time...
2006-07-20 05:43:59 · answer #6 · answered by bellelvsbeast 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like it. So many wonderful horses are ruined by racing. The ways that ppl train them can be horrendous. My horse is off the track and he is a crazy nut and I have to get rid of him (long, terrible story that goes along with him) and it's racing that did it to him.
2006-07-20 17:51:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like horse racing but that's my opinion. I was raised in a suburb and worked in a city. As to how the horses like racing I don't speak horse so they don't tell me how they feel.
2006-07-20 06:16:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horse and racer should work as a one good team. If they do - than they get success. Also, in this case, horse get the pleasure from it's own work (like a sportsman), and, even more trying to do it better, not like a sorta race-car. Horse has it's own mind and we shouldn't forget this fact.
2006-07-20 05:50:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like horse races. For the record every horse sport has a few people who mistreat their horses and give the sport a bad name.
For every 98% who don't mistreat the horses the 2% do and they give the sport a bad name
2006-07-20 09:10:24 · answer #10 · answered by Natalie Rose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋