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SteamboatsTough call – steeplechase ban
Steeplechase and hurdle racing in the Australian state of Victoria will be abolished in 2010, prompted by the deaths of 20 horses in two years. The decision follows a comprehensive review of the sport and has been welcomed by animal welfare groups.
However, members of the racing industry have reacted with anger, calling it “unbelievable” and “appalling”.
The loathing with which most people view animal rights activists and the unpopularity of the ban-happy leftists who’d ban anything they don’t like would surely have a good libertarian demanding that they take their effing hands off our horseracing.
However, I’m afraid I must remain silent on this one. The thought of horses being crippled and put down is a bit too much to take. Am I getting soft?
Keep the human steeplechasing though – what we do to ourselves is another matter.
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Although watching this sport is a great eenjoyment for me, I can suffer the loss of it for the sake of the animals. It’s dangerous, nay deadly, and one can tell that some of the horses are frightened when they have to make almost impossble jumps at breakneck angles.
If more people died or were crippled from this sport than horses they’d stop it in a heartbeat!
Animals have to be protected for they don’t have their own voices and when they do defend themselves the only way they can they are put down for being aggressive.
I am against the hunt too.
In fact, I think there should be tougher laws on anyone who abuses any animals. I will gladly be executioner. No salary required.
And my dad was a professional jockey so I should be baised the other way.
By remaining silent on this topic James, might you be considered as ’sitting on the fence’?
Undoubtedly.
We slaughter and eat cows, sheep and pigs, don’t we? Animals which are of rather higher intelligence and more sociable than horses. Well, apart from sheep. And murderous cows.
Well yeah, it does come down to higher/lower, if we’re going to be honest. Cows, yes. Never forget the cows.
Perhaps it will shock horse racing into making it a safer sport for horses.
Perhaps the jockeys can carry the horses.