Letter+To+The+Editor

To Whom It May Concern,

Horses are beautiful, strong, majestic and yet, these compelling, peaceful beasts are forced to face horrifying circumstances. These awful circumstances include Horse Racing, Jumps Racing, Horse Diving, Horse Battling, Lion and Tiger Riding On Horse, Horse Soring and Drugging Horses. All of these, in some way, shape or form, injure horses. H orses are forced to participate in inhumane events all the time. Horses get serious injuries. Those injurys can and will most likely lead to death. Most of the events are risks for the rider also. Horses dont have a choice on whether they want to participate in the events. They don't have a choice whether they want to risk their lives. That is why using horses for entertainment needs to stop. Horses don't have a voice but we do. In our opinion, using horses in entertainment is unacceptable. Spreading awareness to help save horses who are used in entertainment, is the purpose in this letter.

Furthermore, horses are used in entertainment all around the world. They are also killed because of entertainment use all around the world. Horses entertained us humans for many years, and how do we repay them? By killing them! Horses race to entertain us, jump to entertain us, dive to entertain us and battle to entertain us. In each one of these activities horses can die. Usually in every race 1 or 2 horses die. When they battle, they battle till their death. The making of movies and t.v shows all cause horses to die. Just recently a new series called Luck was canceled because 3 horses died in the making. Horses die because we want to watch them run around in circles. Is it really that amusing? Is it really worth horses dying? If horses continue to be used in entertainment someday there will be no more horses. If that day comes would you still think it was worth watching all those horses die while you sat there and did nothing?

Lets not forget, drug use rates are becoming far too high. Drugs are mainly used to help horses win a race or help them perform better. Some drugs are very risky to use because it could end up being a health concern for the horse. When race day comes, most owners don't think about the side effects, they just want their horse to cross the finish line first. Once horses get exhausted, owners inject them with a special drug so they can get one more race out of them. The rule is you may use drugs during training but not on race day. Since so many new drugs are being invented it is very hard to tell the owner has used drugs on race day. Some of the health issues related to drug use include, bleeding in the lungs, stomach ulcers, inflammatory airway disease. Almost all drugs, result in disease, injury, and pulmonary bleeding.

On the positive side, people may be thinking that some people make a living off owning a racehorse, or a Tennessee Walker, for that matter. We are using these poor horses as money makers. Running these horses to death just so the owner can make money off them, is just horrible. All you can see is the money makers being killed, while the money receivers are just spending their money on something they don't need. At every horse race you can see a betting window where thousands of people place bets on which horse they believe is going to win. If that specific horse wins the race, the better receives exactly how much he bet on that horse. Sometimes people bet over one hundred dollars. You may think it's a nice way to make a few extra bucks, but really, all their doing is betting on which horses will die the day after the race.

We believe that we can one day stop all of these events altogether. This means no more horses would have to die because they were abused and neglected by their owners because of racing, getting drugged, diving, or battling. We hope you consider helping us take a stand and to definitely do something about using horses in entertainment and decreasing the amount of deaths brought on by this severe topic. Besides, horses were born to run, born to play, so let's end the slaughter, end the pain and work together to save the lives of these silent sufferers.

 Sincerely,

 Cassie, Katrina, Lindsay, Sheridyn, Stefanie