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While horse racing antis will claim that the reason a horse is euthanised with a broken leg is a financial...
If you see a horse with a nose bleed after a race (which is, fortunately, uncommon), it’s likely to be...
One of the main arguments against horse racing is the use of the whip. It’s a contentious issue with an...
Whether they’re racing for $15 million or $15,000 in prizemoney, thoroughbred racehorses are given a high standard of care and...
Racehorses are athletes. Logically no athlete is going to perform at their peak unless they are fit, healthy, and happy....
It is absolute on all the data sets that the training and racing of two-year-old thoroughbreds has no ill effect...
Horses are physically built to gallop, and gallop fast. They have long, slender limbs attached to large bodies of muscle,...
There are plenty of good reasons to house racehorses in stables, and none of them are to make it more...
Racing has a principle of ‘drug free’ racing. Under the rules of Australian racing, no horse is allowed to run...
Fortunately, it is very rare that a horse will die on track in Australia, and, of course, we’re trying to...
It is true that horse racing relies on the thoroughbred racehorse; without the horse, there is no horse racing or...
