bonny
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CPTrayes.
your posts are ace! thoughtful, obviously researched and considered, and totally reasonable and polite.
I agree with much of what you write
are you related ?
Who struggles with watching racing due to fatalities?
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Anna
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I watch the races sometimes on TV but i don't really watch them.
Equilibrium Ireland
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If you hate racing you'll never see any good. Kind of like me and hunting. I know most of you take exceptional care of your hunters. It's just something I have no time for.
Being kept in a stall nearly 24/7, no not ideal but they got worked and were out other times. I've seen worse inflicted on normal everyday horse owners. My first few years living here I seriously wondered if anyone knew how to clean a stall. But saying all racehorses have stable vices or even most is wrong. At home the haynets hung outside the stable door within easy reach and always fed at the door. Like I said very very few horses had vices. We also had a turnout pen as well. There were no excuses for not having something looked at by a vet.
I've been on many racehorses and ex racehorses. I think your stereotype is not the norm but you will never believe that. But most of the time you won't tell a TB this is the way we're going to do this. If people are those kind of riders get a more cold type of horse. Even my warmbloods out of TB mares are the same. In no way are they difficult, but they aren't spur and push rides. Exactly my type of ride. Always underneath you with a brain. I admit I really have no time for horses that aren't quick thinkers nor push rides. So I stick with TB's and mostly TB's.
If you don't like racing don't watch. Think they're always mistreated, take a look around at some normal horses owned by people who just want a horse. I've seen worse. I've seen ruined horses in the hands of wannabes who never get a second chance. They're casualties too.
Terri
Being kept in a stall nearly 24/7, no not ideal but they got worked and were out other times. I've seen worse inflicted on normal everyday horse owners. My first few years living here I seriously wondered if anyone knew how to clean a stall. But saying all racehorses have stable vices or even most is wrong. At home the haynets hung outside the stable door within easy reach and always fed at the door. Like I said very very few horses had vices. We also had a turnout pen as well. There were no excuses for not having something looked at by a vet.
I've been on many racehorses and ex racehorses. I think your stereotype is not the norm but you will never believe that. But most of the time you won't tell a TB this is the way we're going to do this. If people are those kind of riders get a more cold type of horse. Even my warmbloods out of TB mares are the same. In no way are they difficult, but they aren't spur and push rides. Exactly my type of ride. Always underneath you with a brain. I admit I really have no time for horses that aren't quick thinkers nor push rides. So I stick with TB's and mostly TB's.
If you don't like racing don't watch. Think they're always mistreated, take a look around at some normal horses owned by people who just want a horse. I've seen worse. I've seen ruined horses in the hands of wannabes who never get a second chance. They're casualties too.
Terri
cptrayes
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you just dont get it, do you?
it is not the absolute number which die it,s the proportiion which is the issue
at some proportion the risk is too high and for me two per cent on the courseand a probable extra two per cent once back home is too high