IS HORSE RACING CRUEL?
MY concern with the horse races is that the animals have no choice in the matter.
They talk about and compare race horses with human athletes. There will be injuries and deaths occasionally.
Human athletes choose to be in sports and collect benefits from it. Horses have no choice, forced into a sport for the benefit of owners and the betting shops.
It seems that money, as usual, comes before the animal.
- M. Zoetemeyer, via Facebook
HOW many have died in the drought?
- N. Owens-Place, via Facebook
IT is cruel. Ban it.
- K. Maree, via Facebook
STOP flogging the guts out of defenceless animals. Flip a coin if you must gamble.
- V. Petersen, via Facebook
WHIPPING a horse is animal cruelty. It is as simple as that.
- L. Mahaffy, via Facebook
The study assessed the area struck and the visual impact of whip use on horses and included a total of 350 rider-horse interactions, of which 109 were clear, behind the saddle impacts. Two observers, working independently, found the following:
- The whip caused a visual indentation on the horse in 83 per cent of impacts
- The unpadded section of the whip made contact on 64 per cent of impacts
- At least 28 examples of apparent breaches of whip rules were found
- More than 75 per cent of the time the whip struck the horse in the abdomen (or flank)
Most jockeys observed used a backhand whip action, possibly to avoid being penalised. At the time of the study, the Australian whip rules maintained a focus solely on forehand action.
- D. Chaffin, via Facebook
AND no one cares about all the people killed on the roads. Let’s ban cars get real.
- T. Hulme, via Facebook
MY only opinion is I don’t agree with the early starting of racehorses before maturity. Accidents happen. Horses have this ability to injure themselves doing little in a paddock every day.
- K. Gordon, via Facebook
IT is our nation’s shame.
- R. Jones, via Facebook
CONSTRUCTION HOMES GUTTED BY THIEVES
IT may be time to get a security guard. These estates are in the middle of nowhere.
- L. Payne, via Facebook
SAD: It is up to communities to look after their own. We will continue to do so.
- T. Alby, via Facebook
