Society/Culture Horse racing is cruel

[FIGJAM]

Is horse racing any less cruel or sad?

Yes and it's a chalk and cheese comparison.

I'd happily see greyhound racing banned in Australia, but think horse racing is well-regulated and the animals, are on the whole, well-looked after.

There of course will be some bad eggs out there looking after the horses, but then there are arseholes out there looking after human athletes too (eg. systematic doping to various Olympic teams and the Essendon FC). It's a perennial fight, but not worth banning sport over.

 

[Gough]

Racing is just like the church and sexual abuse when it comes to cruelty. Every time a case is exposed we hear all about bad eggs and how it's all in the past and won't happen again, until it does.

 

[Cuzz09]

Ban nurses coz a couple of randoms bash elderly patients



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[FIGJAM]

Life has bad shit happen in it within every field of human endeavour, often as a result of horrible decisions by humans and that ain't gonna change anytime soon.

Racing Australia have an excellent program of traceability, vetting, drug testing and prosecution of perpetrators. You can't attain perfection, but you can strive for it and I believe they are doing their best.

 

[iBeng]

Its weird to me that its still considered not animal abuse to quite literally abuse the life of animals for the sake of gambling.

 

[Cuzz09]

I think they could definitely just do a quick fix and ban the whip at least.

Or only use it to direct the horse not get it going.

If you can't get the horse going with hands n heels maybe it's a slow horse/not great jockey

Also the jumps can probably go too.



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[tandino]

Just out of interest, what does this matter? Seems you’re looking to generalise.

Christ alive it was 7 1/2 years ago. Who knows.

The point sort of speaks for itself, doesn't it?