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« Reply #105 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 09:42:37 » |
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They should make the fences higher
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« Reply #106 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:09:22 » |
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making the fences smaller encourages higher speeds, and its going too fast that causes the accidents. make the jumps bigger and the horses will hit them slower. can't they just reduce the number of horses running aswell to stop all the congestion and whatnot
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« Reply #107 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:19:35 » |
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I think it's making the animals do things they aren't designed to do that causes the accidents
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« Reply #108 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:20:52 » |
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What were they designed to do though? Just live in a field
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« Reply #109 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:24:03 » |
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I think it's making the animals do things they aren't designed to do that causes the accidents
Are you suggesting that horses are not designed to run, gallop and jump over stuff? |
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« Reply #110 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:25:05 » |
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in the wild don't they all run about happy as larry in their herds, effectively what they're doing when they race
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« Reply #111 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:28:06 » |
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Are you suggesting that horses are not designed to run, gallop and jump over stuff?
40 horses 3 die in a single 10 minute event. Yeah, they're really engineered for it aren't they? Do that in nature and they'd be extinct in weeks. |
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« Reply #112 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:28:58 » |
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Dogs dont live in houses birds dont hve fucking mirrors in front of them and donkeys dont live on the beach. Where do we stop then
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« Reply #113 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:30:15 » |
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Something I read this morning is that a horse's heartrate can increase 10 fold during a race. Not sure if this is true, but the article did imply that the horse was not really designed for this and was a major factor in the high instance of heart attacks in the minutes following a race. I shouldn't really put stuff like this forward, I know, without checking it out first. But it's made me think, that's for sure.
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« Reply #114 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:31:11 » |
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Something I read this morning is that a horse's heartrate can increase 10 fold during a race. Not sure if this is true, but the article did imply that the horse was not really designed for this and was a major factor in the high instance of heart attacks in the minutes following a race. I shouldn't really put stuff like this forward, I know, without checking it out first. But it's made me think, that's for sure.
Apparently the winner was in critical condition after the race due to exhaustion. |
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« Reply #115 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:38:52 » |
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does anyone else find it funny how these days people seem to be more appalled by injuries to animals then they are for human death and suffering, i suppose people see animals as being unable to defend themselves or make a choice about what they are doing. Theres a jockey in critical condition after a race on saturday, but he's hardly been mentioned by the press because of the deaths of the horses, though you could argue he chose to ride and knew the risks, whereas the horses are made to run  |
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« Reply #116 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:40:13 » |
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40 horses
I didn't realise that horses in the wild were solitary animals, I always assumed that they were social animals who formed large groups better known as herds. |
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« Reply #117 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:43:23 » |
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I didn't realise that horses in the wild were solitary animals, I always assumed that they were social animals who formed large groups better known as herds.
Did you deliberately miss the point? |
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« Reply #118 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 10:44:24 » |
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Monkeys on Shetlands jumping people,problem solved.
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« Reply #119 on: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 12:08:44 » |
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I think it's making the animals do things they aren't designed to do that causes the accidents
Designed? Wasn't the modern domesticated horse bred entirely for work? I'm sure it must be quite different from the wild horses of whatever BC. |
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