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Sheridyn's Horses in Entertainment Page!


 * Horses in Entertainment Tagxedo **

Horrible Pictures

A discarded ex-racehorse awaits being killed for dog meat at Melbourne knackery. Diving horse.


 * Facts **
 * HBO series 'Luck' canceled because 3 horses died in the making
 * in the past 14 weeks at New York’s Aqueduct Horse Track 16 horses have lost their lives
 * over 50 horses have died in the Calgary Stampede since 1986
 * drug use happens often in horse racing because trainers will do anything to help their horses win no matter how in may effect the horse later on
 * the rule for horse racing is that you can use drugs in training but not the real day
 * since so many new drugs are being invented it is very hard to detect them in a horse if the trainer has used drugs on race day
 * common drugs are anabolic steriods, etorphine, narcotic analgesics, caffeine, beta blockers, butazolidin, bicarb, blue magic


 * Editorial **

Dying for the pleasure of humans. Health being a secondary concern. That is not the way to live. I will not stand by and let it happen. We need to stop having horses as our entertainment. It's wrong and deadly. Horses are drugged to go faster and killed just because we wanted to watch them run in circles. Do you believe this is okay, because I surely don't?

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?

Would you like to poked and prodded? Have random liquids injected into you. Would you like to be dumped in a Cooley to die after you were drugged so you could run faster? Horses have no choice. Humans have control of them and don't treat them with any respect. Horse racing is the most common piece of entertainment that includes use of drugs. When training of the horse occurs you are allowed to drug it and there will be no punishment towards the trainer. When it comes to race day though drug use is not permitted. Even though drug use is not permitted lots of trainers still use it on race day. At the tracks there is someone that checks the horses for signs that they are drugged but with all of the new drugs being invented they can't really be sure if the horse is drugged or not. The most common drugs that are used are anabolic steriods, etorphine, narcotic analgesics, caffeine, beta blockers, butazolidin, bicarb and blue magic. After the horse is drugged so it can run one last race the trainer usually dumps it in a Cooley to die. A Cooley is a giant dirt pit where the horse is left to suffer with no food or water and it can not get out. Would you want to live that kind of a life?

Some people might argue that horses being in Entertainment provide many jobs for people. They provide people with money to help with their family. Just because it creates jobs though does not make it right. The people that work at the track don't really care about the horses safety all they care about is the money they get. It sickens me. Knowing these people are killing innocent horses so they can have money do buy something they probably don't even need. Even if they needed it that bad I'm sure there are lots of places that would hire them. They don't have to kill horses to make a living.

Now do you see why this topic is such a big concern? People are killing helpless horses for no reason and we are sitting around doing nothing about it! Well I say not anymore. We need to stop having horses as our entertainment. They are dying because of us. Do you really want to be the cause of horses going extinct because if we keep this up we all now that's what is going to happen in the end. We need to stand up for what we believe in and stop using horses to entertain us!