Posted to The Age (4/11/2014) on 5/11/2014 at 1:48 AM (Not published by newspaper)
Commenting on "Melbourne Cup becomes story of Red Cadeaux and Admire Rakti"
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horseracing/melbourne-cup-becomes-story-of-red-cadeaux-and-admire-rakti-20141104-11gtb3.html
Humans can't speak horse language, even if the horse has one. It is illogical to say that horses enjoy racing or otherwise, because they can't tell us so.
Animals used in circus performance are a thing of the past, but horse racing is getting bigger as a money making event. Is it double standard? In my opinion, it is. There is no difference between animals performing in a big tent and horses racing on race tracks.
In racing, the jockeys whip the horses to "make" them go faster. It is cruel, and only in epic theatre movies of Egyptian pharaoh dynasties that I see slaves being whipped. It is the avoidance of further pain that makes the horses run faster, and the riders' intense whipping is a testimony of the latent greedy, sadist and aggressive nature of the jockeys.
To put horses under intense pressure in races definitely will cause distress to them. Races are not day-to-day event, and many successful ones are trained for hours each day, transported to different places, live in strange and foreign environment, run on different track, etc when they participate in big race carnivals. If a human is subject to that kind of unreasonable treatment, he/ she will be applying for stress leave and claim Work Cover compensation.
It is time to rethink about horse racing. Let's something to correct it.
Commenting on "Melbourne Cup becomes story of Red Cadeaux and Admire Rakti"
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horseracing/melbourne-cup-becomes-story-of-red-cadeaux-and-admire-rakti-20141104-11gtb3.html
Humans can't speak horse language, even if the horse has one. It is illogical to say that horses enjoy racing or otherwise, because they can't tell us so.
Animals used in circus performance are a thing of the past, but horse racing is getting bigger as a money making event. Is it double standard? In my opinion, it is. There is no difference between animals performing in a big tent and horses racing on race tracks.
In racing, the jockeys whip the horses to "make" them go faster. It is cruel, and only in epic theatre movies of Egyptian pharaoh dynasties that I see slaves being whipped. It is the avoidance of further pain that makes the horses run faster, and the riders' intense whipping is a testimony of the latent greedy, sadist and aggressive nature of the jockeys.
To put horses under intense pressure in races definitely will cause distress to them. Races are not day-to-day event, and many successful ones are trained for hours each day, transported to different places, live in strange and foreign environment, run on different track, etc when they participate in big race carnivals. If a human is subject to that kind of unreasonable treatment, he/ she will be applying for stress leave and claim Work Cover compensation.
It is time to rethink about horse racing. Let's something to correct it.
