Horse Racing is Cruel but Exciting
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Horse racing is an incredible sport to watch. The races seem to go by in a second and the unpredictable can always happen. It’ll take you a while to understand exactly how the races work — often the start seems like a mess that’s unfair to horses pointing the wrong way — but you’ll quickly realize that it is a very good competition that has come to deserve the title of “The Sport of Kings.”
There is also something that exists underneath all the glamor of race day and the power of the horses. Horses can be seriously injured when racing, pushing their bodies to the very limits of endurance. By forcing them to jump high obstacles such as hedges and across water jumps, the horses stand a chance of serious injury. Horses will not be given the chance to recover should they suffer from a terrible fall as a lame horse will lose all of its ability to walk and will likely never recover. It is for this reason that the vet who is in charge of the horse’s well being at each race will sometimes have to take a decision to put the horse down by shooting it. This is of course not a decision taken lightly. Horses can often be worth many tens of thousands of dollars, so just like how you’d compare truck insurance owners will likely take insurance out to protect their investment.
But horse racing is an incredible spectacle. Horses, long used for combat are incredibly strong creatures that must be admired. And there are well looked after and seem to enjoy the races. Owners take every precaution to keep the horses safe — from buying horsebox insurance to ensuring that the horse has enough training — and attempt to make the chance of a horse fatality as low as possible.
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