Vlad n U 2
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Do you ever read other people's posts or do you just come in and post absolutely whatever.
Yeah, I think it'd be very difficult to succeed without having respect for the animals.
the fact that even the successful horses have essentially no life ahead of them.
Barbaric sport. Sooner we stop giving a shit the better. I just find it hilarious when people who wouldn't cross the road to watch a horse race at any other time of the year suddenly decide to spend heaps of money on clothes and/or bets for a couple of days a year.
Why do you say this? Aside from the ones who die from the injuries the successful ones tend to be looked after from what I know. And even the ones who don't make a lot of money, I'm pretty sure they don't just shoot them.
Jeez, can you imagine if people wore their fascinators for the rest of the year? It's ridiculous enough that we find such accessorising socially acceptable for an entire day.
Charlotte knows shit-tonnes more about this than I do, but from what she's told me race horses are basically pushed to within an inch of their life and basically can't do a whole lot of anything beyond for most of their life. They don't get to properly develop physically. Keep in mind that they only have a very narrow window in their youth to race and then have 15, 20 years ahead of them. You know how if AFL players are pushed too hard, too fast in their teenage years before their body finishes growing, they're basically broken before they even reach adulthood? Same applies to horses, except unlike AFL players race horses are pushed from pretty much day one.