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Big Blue Marble

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2. Good to see these facts get the publicity they need.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 01:38 PM

Jul 2016

This is a dark sport indeed. Most people only see the excitement and the glamour.
These a sport where a few make money off the suffering of many beautiful animals.
The price is far to high to pay. Boycott horse racing, please.

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Hundreds of racehorses die at the track each year. Their deaths may be preventable. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2016 OP

past time to quite using animals for sports, entertainment, war and police work. KG Jul 2016 #1

Good to see these facts get the publicity they need. Big Blue Marble Jul 2016 #2

I see it gone in 25 years yeoman6987 Jul 2016 #4

That is my hope as well. Big Blue Marble Jul 2016 #5

Their deaths are easily preventable; stop racing them (nt) LongtimeAZDem Jul 2016 #3

If you let the racetracks have casinos with no tie to horse or dog racing 1939 Jul 2016 #6

Horse racing is barbaric Calculating Jul 2016 #7