[ComfortEagle]

Thats true but at least the PEOPLE that are injured get to live afterward!

I don't think you understand that a leg injury to horse is basically like taking their life away.

Eight Belles broke both ankles and would not have been able to stand up at all, ever. One break was coming through the skin it was so bad. You can't just keep a horse sitting on it's butt for the rest of it's life, it wants to get up, but can't and will feel nothing but pain the rest of it's life. That's why they had to put her down.

For you to say that the owners and trainers don't care about the horses is crazy. Race horses are some of the best treated animals around. The quality of attention, training, and diet that they get is beyond what most animals will see in their entire lives.


Things like this happen...in all sports. A horse can blow a leg out just like an Olympic sprinter. Yes, the outcomes may be different, but that's because horses are different than people. Humans can recover much better and much differently than horses. As one man said, horses are million dollar bodies on 2 cent legs. Will people ever stop horse racing? Doubtful, the sport will evolve like all other sports over time and maybe one day we will figure out how to stop things like this from happening, but to say that the owners and trainers of horses who have to be put down, don't care about their animals is ridiculous.