Is horse racing more humane than dog or rooster fights?
The other answerer has to be kidding, right? the horses make money for people, thus they force them to run, and drug them also! They abuse them and use them up. There are not enough regulations with this so called “sport.” One horse in every 22 races suffers an injury that prevents him/her from finishing a race. Care for a single racehorse can cost as much as $50,000 per year. So even winners, when they get older are killed a lot of the time, very few don’t. 58 racehorses a year approx. are sent for meat slaughter… and of course there’s insurance fraud, where the horses are injured on purpose to collect on them. They usually get killed. “There are trainers pumping horses full of illegal drugs every day,” says the former Churchill Downs public relations director. Which drugs are legal varies from state to state, with Kentucky holding the reputation as the most lenient state. The New York Sun explained that because “thoroughbreds are bred for flashy speed and to look good in the sales
