17/11/2025
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DEAR TROLLS, HERE ARE THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS YOU ARE PROBABLY ABOUT TO ASK US AND THE STATEMENTS YOU ARE ABOUT TO MAKE -
"THOROUGHBREDS ARE BORN TO RACE"
No, they have been selectively bred to race, because humans chose racing for them. This selective breeding has left them more susceptible to illness and injury. So many young horses collapse and die during or post race or training. Most bleed from the lungs or finish races lame. Their fragile legs snap in two or shatter just clipping a fence or another horses hoof. They don't have a natural desire to race. There is a huge difference between animals naturally evolving and humans selectively breeding.
"HORSES LOVE TO JUMP"
Then why do horses have to be taught to jump fences? Why do so many horses avoid the jumps once they lose their jockey? Why aren't they constantly jumping out of their paddocks? Why aren't wild horses constantly looking for things to jump over? Why do so many horses clip fences? Why do so many horses fall at fences?
"HORSES LOVE TO RUN"
There is a huge difference between horses running and playing in the wild or open fields to horses racing. Horses might enjoy running when they want, where they want, at a speed they want, for as long as they want, but that doesn't mean running at high speeds over long distances is natural, normal or fun for them. The only time a horse would naturally do this is if they were scared or in danger. If they are born to run at high speeds over long distances, why do they bleed in the lungs when they are forced to do it?
"HORSES CAN JUST AS EASILY DIE IN A PADDOCK OR STABLE"
You cannot compare a horse having an unavoidable accident, or getting an unpreventable illness, to a horse purposefully being entered into a dangerous race that everyone but the horse knows has a very real chance of injuring and killing them. At least 969 horses have been raced to their deaths in the UK and Ireland in the last 2 years ( hundreds more have died in training ), how many have died in paddocks and what did they die of?. Jockey Brian Hughes has raced 60 horses to their deaths so far in his career, do you think those 60 horses would have died if they were in well kept paddocks, just being allowed to be horses?
"RACEHORSES ARE TREATED LIKE ROYALTY"
Firstly, they want to be treated like HORSES not humans and not royalty.
Keeping a herd animal alone in a stable, no matter how clean that stable is, for 23 hours a day is cruel.
Feeding racehorses an unnatural diet to fuel them for racing, leaving them more prone to colic and gastric ulcers is not treating them well.
93% of racehorses have gastric ulcers due to their unnatural diet and stress.
Using invasive and painful equipment on horses to dominate and control them is not treating them well.
Forcing them to risk their lives in dangerous races, pushing them so hard their lungs bleed is not love.
"HORSE WELFARE COMES FIRST IN RACING"
Forcing horses to flat race from 2 and jump from 3, even though they are not mature mentally or physically until they are at least 6 years old, their bones not even fully fused until this time, isn't them being treated well. It is putting the sport before their wellbeing.
Using invasive, painful and damaging equipment on them to dominate and control them, risking their lives on courses you know are dangerous and gruelling, is not putting the horse first.
"THE WHIP DOESN'T HURT"
If the whip doesn't hurt why have some countries banned it's use?
If the whip doesn't hurt, why are there rules restricting it's use? Why do some horses have welt marks after the race?
If the whip doesn't hurt how has science proved it does?
A horses skin is just as sensitive as ours. Have you seen them twitch when a fly lands on them? The whole point of the whip is to cause pain, to push the horse into running faster. Usually at the end of a race when the horse is already exhausted.
The whip DOES hurt, and the rules are just for show. If jockeys break the rules they get a few days suspension and no fine. Jockeys have even admitted they wouldn't break the rules if punishments were harsher.
"YOU CAN'T FORCE HORSES TO DO ANYTHING THEY DON'T WANT TO DO"
Sadly, yes you can. Remember seeing them jump through fire in circuses? Seeing them used in bullfighting? Being forced to 'dance'? Many horses in racing have learned helplessness, they are smart and work out it's easier to obey than suffer pain. What do you think all the invasive and painful equipment used on them is for? You have seen eight handlers literally drag horses into starting gates right? Using blindfolds, pulling their tails, mane and ears.
"IF HORSES DON'T LOVE RACING WHY DO THEY CONTINUE RUNNING WHEN THE JOCKEY FALLS OFF"
Because they are herd animals. When one horse runs they all run. They feel safer in a group. Even when a horse is injured they will often desperately try to stay with the herd to feel safe.
"YOU SHOULD VISIT A RACING YARD"
You mean when they have open days, so they can give a false, shiny, happy, controlled representation of how the horses are treated? But many people who oppose racing used to work in racing, we have already seen the truth.
"YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HORSES OR RACING"
Thousands of people who have horses oppose racing. Many of those who oppose racing used to work in the industry, but had to leave after they saw how horses are really treated. Stop assuming we have no experience or knowledge of horses, equine behaviour or horse racing.
"WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO RACEHORSES IF RACING GOT BANNED, DO YOU WANT TO SEE THEM ALL CULLED AND EXTINCT?"
What about all the horses who die every year while racing ( At least 969 in the UK and Ireland in the last two years )
What about the thousands of foals from the 14,000 bred by the UK and Irish racing industry every year that don't 'make the grade' and never see a racecourse?
What about the 7,000 that retire from racing just in the UK every year?
What about the racehorses that end up in slaughterhouses every year? ( Around 4,000 between 2019 and 2021, 1,165 in 2022, 1,603 in 2023 and 1,185 in 2024)
What about the racehorses left to rot on trainers land or that just 'disappear'?
If the racing industry breed them, they should be responsible for them for life. But if racing ended it wouldn't happen overnight. It would be a slow process. They would just stop breeding them.
Racing ending would be good for horses, not bad. The overbreeding would end, the thousands looking for homes every year would end, the slaughters would end and the suffering and deaths in racing would end. There might be less thoroughbreds in the world, but the ones still here wouldn't be subjected to the misery of racing.
And the racing industry using the threat of slaughtering all their horses if they are no longer allowed to risk their lives on racecourses, shows just how little they actually care.
WE DON'T EXPECT YOU TO JUST BLINDLY BELIEVE ANYTHING WE SAY. JUST STOP BLINDLY BELIEVING THE RACING INDUSTRY. DO YOUR OWN, INDEPENDENT RESEARCH.
