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Originally Posted by transplant99
Ridiculous.
Horses break down all the time in many facets of their existance. Ive seen horses go down just loping along in a field...they are somewhat fragile creatures when it comes to their ankles/legs.
As for Eight Belles, I have NEVER heard of a horse breaking/displacing BOTH ankles at once and especially after just galloping out to wind down after a race.
Ahh to be the judge and jury about something you have no idea about.
These animals WANT to run...they are BRED to run....they LOVE to run. It's a fast paced sport with very large athletes...so yes sometimes tragedy strikes. The horses are pampered and made part of families....so yeah I guess the natural outcome is to kust want to be able to bet on them..."just so they can die". Preposterous.
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Looks to me like Vicks dogs were bred to fight, and wanted to fight. It's a different scale of severety but I don't understand how human breeding and shaping of animal behavior can justify anything. So they were bred to run ... so what? I just think it's sickening that people can just shrug their shoulders and go ahh, tragedy strikes what are you going to do ... I mean, they were bred to run ... and people do need stuff to bet on right?!