Race Horse Deaths

If the sport didn't exist they wouldn't be bred in the first place, if animal lovers had their way in that it's wrong to kill animals full stop, there would be far less animals in the world, it's an obvious contradiction.

There would be far more antelope in the world if there weren't any lions, should all the lions be killed?

That horse died because it was forced to jump over a large fence in amongst a crowd of 39 other horses

No other reason

The amount of cruelty created by pet culture is probably the worst offender of any animal industry and yet animal rights activists have nothing to say because they probably all have dogs trapped at home.

The fences at the national don't need to be as big as they are, it's purely for entertainment value.

If horses didn't want to run then they wouldn't run.

They are bred for it and love it.

In fact most of the horses are cared for better than humans.

All these activists should protest outside halting sites where real animal cruelty takes place.

Although they wouldn't have the balls to do that.

Not all of them. Only the best of the best.

It's correct to say that a horse will be in too much pain after a leg break. It would be inhumane to try and out them out in a field after that. Yet we breed them to race knowing full well the injuries that can be caused.

I'd certainly advocate the removal of the jump season if it lessened injuries and deaths. It would be interesting to see the difference in the stats between the jumps and the flat. The Horse crowd won't want you to know that though.

I find it 'weird' people are concerned about these horses, yet think it is better if they never existed, which would be an inevitable consequence of banning horse racing for many of the horses.

So people keep making this argument because it hasn't been refuted.

Looking at the life of horse races, I haven't seen anyone produce anything to counter the point that their lives are worse than 'natural' lives, that their lives are so bad non existence would be better.

Horses in their natural habitat are prey animals. What's their mortality rate when they were being preyed upon by bears, wolves, cougars etc?

I'm comparing race horses lives and deaths with their natural environment.

If you have specific proposals for how to make horse racing safer for the horses, that is one thing, but I'm pointing out the inevitable consequences of any significant bans on horse racing - less such horses.