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No, none of the things you mentioned would be better. But what would be better is if breeders would breed toward an animal with more substantial bones in their legs.

I love horse racing, but the fact is that we are breeding in a horse that is bound to break down under the same circumstances a thoroughbred is put through. Horse racing would be better served to develop and animal that isn't suseptable to these kinds of injuries. The development of synthetic tracks has helped, but it's not the final answer.

Hey dummy, the point isn't that Eight Belles was a beautiful horse bred and trained for racing...It was that it is barbaric to just kill horses because they won't be able to race.  My father loved the track, and I went with him....But I didn't get the draw.  Sure, gambling is fun, and horses are beautiful, but the murdering of animals because they no longer fit into "the plan" is demented.

Plowing a field?  Dog food?  You're a class A idiot...THE POINT IS THEY MURDER THE HORSES.  DUMMY!