[Amun-Ra]

You are all making my point for me. Its true that there are injuries like this in every sport and the difference is we are human and still live after the injury, and yes some do die but not from broken ankles or legs like these horses have to, according to horse experts that is. Yes Dale Sr. did die in that crash but he was also traveling at a much faster speed than the horse and the horse didnt hit a wall did it. There is a big difference in people getting hurt and horses getting hurt while racing, and its like I said before, we still get to live afterward. There havent been too many cases of a horse not getting put down after an injury like Eight Belles suffered or any other horse that broke just one leg or ankle or whatever. Simply put, I hate horse racing for the main reason that I believe it is cruelty to the horse and no one can tell me that the horse enjoys doing what it does, unless that person is a "Horse Whisperer" like Robert Redford was in the movie and can actually talk to horses and know what they are thinking. Give me a break, no pun intended.

Are you really serious when you say that a horse doesn't like to run? Have you ever seen horses in a wide open field? Crazy as this sounds, they actually run, together...:eek: I know it is hard to believe.
Horses get put down all the time and it is not just race horses. If a horse sustains and injury like this, it is almost always put down.