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Joal Taylor
16 years ago
Ow :*(
Dermot McGuire
16 years ago
thank you. sickening isn’t it
Evan Beaver
16 years ago
Christ, I hadn’t been following this story. I didn’t realise the poor bugger died during the race! I’d figured it was just another one of those ‘humane destructions’. You know, when all 4 legs break after a race and they shoot them at the track.
No good at all.
Venise Alstergren
16 years ago
FD: Thank you, thank you, thank you. If this doesn’t get through peoples’ heads nothing will. It’s called sport.
Wonderful, harrowing, all those things. Five out of five First Dog.
Greg Angelo
16 years ago
This disgusting sport is a blight on a civilised community and the cretins who support it ought to have their legs broken and be shot. From a risk management perspective, there is a significant risk in each race of a horse being seriously injured or killed. We banned cockfighting and bear baiting sometime ago as these were regarded as uncivilised sports. Why do we continue with this appalling pattern of death and injury in the name of so-called “sport”.
The racing community all around the world is prepared to subject these beautiful horses to significant risk to satisfy some fundamental urge which I suspect is some vicarious pleasure from seeing death or injury not unlike the Romans watching gladiators butcher each other for pleasure.
Ow :*(
thank you. sickening isn’t it
Christ, I hadn’t been following this story. I didn’t realise the poor bugger died during the race! I’d figured it was just another one of those ‘humane destructions’. You know, when all 4 legs break after a race and they shoot them at the track.
No good at all.
FD: Thank you, thank you, thank you. If this doesn’t get through peoples’ heads nothing will. It’s called sport.
Wonderful, harrowing, all those things. Five out of five First Dog.
This disgusting sport is a blight on a civilised community and the cretins who support it ought to have their legs broken and be shot. From a risk management perspective, there is a significant risk in each race of a horse being seriously injured or killed. We banned cockfighting and bear baiting sometime ago as these were regarded as uncivilised sports. Why do we continue with this appalling pattern of death and injury in the name of so-called “sport”.
The racing community all around the world is prepared to subject these beautiful horses to significant risk to satisfy some fundamental urge which I suspect is some vicarious pleasure from seeing death or injury not unlike the Romans watching gladiators butcher each other for pleasure.