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To: Solon who wrote (49953)	3/16/2014 5:13:04 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I know lots of people who bet on horses, own horses and breed horses. Trouble is you never really know how the horse feels or if it really wants to run that day. They say if you want to ruin someone's life give them a half-intrest in a race horse... Vet, feed, farrier, transport, training and a myriad other bills to punish you and the horse for being born. I've seen enough of it to believe it is cruel and unusual punishment to equines. For every horse that runs on a racetrack ten are in a can of dog food. And the winners don't all get turned out in a pristine pasture to live their lives or reproduce either - the majority suffer the fate of the claimers and running fast only bought them a little extra time.