The Horse Death Toll at Churchill Downs #shortsyoutube
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February 7, 2026
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they are horses that are stained with steroids
It breaks my heart seing this. I hope one day the earth will be free from abuse
People who do this should read Black Beauty by Anne Sewells,it made me cry so hard man,why?why spoil good horses,like I hate how Totilas was forced to rollkur,horses are animals too☹
I hate horse riding and racing but I love horses
Horse abuse
This sport needs to come to an end. This is a man-made sport. This isn’t a sport from God. This is a man-made sport. This is some person some person who has no regard for the life’s of these animals, and if any horse owner wants to say that they love their horse no you don’t when you participate in these type of sports you don’t love your animal, cause you take a chance of these animals getting hurt and having to be put down the horse has to pay for the ridiculous decisions that people make and I’m sorry. I’m gonna say a person who has invented this sport which only intern causes damage to animals so in a way it’s animal abuse, and those that participate in this should be ashamed of themselves and those that put their horses in this should be ashamed of themselves, but of course, I know that at the end of our lives are our lives will testify against us for every single word or every single action we did so when you’re standing in front of God, you will not be able to get out of abusing his animal or being a contributor to abusing the animals cause let me explain something to everybody in this comment section those that like this video or support this video by liking it. You’re actually keeping Churchill Downs going if people stop purchasing tickets if people stop going to the races and stop supporting this. The sport would die out because nobody would wanna do it anymoreand I’m not trying to say anybody’s a moron out of being mean I’m saying this because it’s just horrible that these horses have to pay for humans decisions it’s disgusting. It’s sad and it should never happen and trust me. I’m not judging anybody. I promise you I’m not but when you do stupid things you win stupid prizes so stop supporting this kind of stuff don’t like the video because that supports the channel don’t purchase tickets. Don’t go to see this stuff because it supports the sport you want it to stop be the change.
Disguisting
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People don’t realize if the racing ends the horses cease to exist they are bred for this and people support their families from it
Human kind is still not kind even after do much knowledge acquired
The Kentucky Derby should be banned from professional sports forever because of horses getting injured and the jockey whipping the horse to run faster
Dnt start the protest shit when u hrve brvin srndwiches rnd milk in u coffee x
Is thrt horse ok he look as if he is ryffering
How come y'all eat Cabbages, Carrots, And other Vegetables but not Dandelions, Lotus, or rose's? 🥀🥀
I have a retired race horse at 4 years old.. we actually got him a fyew days ago . When we got him he was SO so scared and I watched the sky news race he was in and the guy riding was just whipping and whipping him continuously and my heart literally sank . He’s the most lovely horse ever
Queen Elizabeth II absolutely Loved watching these races and participated with a lot of the behind the scenes activities for them.
For all the horses who didn’t make it bc of this we love you all you didn’t deserve to be ended this way😢😢
It's sad. I live here in Kentucky too, I've never been to a Horse Race though
They should be in prison
They don't take good care but some do
I do horse racing and this is the bad bits and i hate you saying that my sport is bad
WARNING:
So human ….man gives a shit about man only. Meaning himself. He doesn't even care about his fellow man.
Yes horses are treated like shit people need to stop going and supporting this. I don't understand how these people can sleep and not have a heavy heart. Disgusting
Poor babies.❤😢
Shut the fuck up dumb bitch we race for a reason that is rare
No matter your view on of its abuse or not surely no matter your opinion tho the one where the horses leg is basically flailing the wrong way as it’s so badly broken and the jockey jumps off and just walks away, there was no one there yet to help. Why would you do that , at least comfort the thing that’s wining stuff so you can get paid 😤
Don’t worry it may be abuse sometimes But There’s a rider that really cares about there horse (Voyage bubble: rider:J McDonald
Edit 1: J McDonald stands for James McDonald
This is so sad to watch . This should be stopped .
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Start learning not attacking improve welfare
I’m pro horse racing and pro equine welfare . Stewards need to improve the rules
Yes horse racing there problems yet you don’t the solutions
🤬 outrageous! shocking! how can they be so evil to the horses!!!!!😡😠
I am not trying to start a war. This is my own opinion. It is only abusive if the jockey rides abusively the horse is falling are usually due to the ground's fault, and it not being tilt or drug correctly and their ankles, breaking or typically due to that in the pictures everyone post of blood coming out of their noses it is because some horses have a condition where when they are running it is something to do with their heart starts pumping too much blood, and it will go into their lungs, and those horses usually are on something called Lasix that prevents that from happening, but some people choose not to spend the money to do it and also some not all racehorses really enjoy their job.
I cant❤
This hurts me. I hate cruel people.
This industry is so disgusting!!
You are definitely a vegan
All ”horse sports” are nothing but animal abuse.
Read on to see how it started
horse racing, sport of running horses at speed, mainly Thoroughbreds with a rider astride or Standardbreds with the horse pulling a conveyance with a driver. These two kinds of racing are called racing on the flat and harness racing, respectively. Some races on the flat—such as steeplechase, point-to-point, and hurdle races—involve jumping. This article is confined to Thoroughbred horse racing on the flat without jumps. Racing on the flat with horses other than Thoroughbreds is described in the article quarter-horse racing.Horse racing is one of the oldest of all sports, and its basic concept has underover the centuries. It developed from a primitive contest of speed or stamina between two horses into a spectacle involving large fields of runners, sophisticated electronic monitoring equipment, and immense sums of money, but its essential feature has always been the same: the horse that finishes first is the winner. In the modern era, horse racing developed from a diversion of the leisure class into a huge public entertainment business. By the first decades of the 21st century, however, the sport’s popularity had shrunk considerably.Knowledge of the first horse race is lost in prehistory. Both four-hitch chariot and mounted (bareback) races were held in the Olympic Games of Greece over the period 700–40 bce. Horse racing, both chariots and of mounted riders, was a well-organized public entertainment in the Roman Empire. The history of organized racing in other ancient civilizations is not very firmly established. Presumably, organized racing began in such countries as China, Persia, Arabia, and other countries of the Middle East and in North Africa, where horsemanship early became highly developed. Thence came to the Arabian, Barb, and Turk horses that contributed to the earliest European racing. Such horses became familiar to Europeans during the Crusades (11th–13th century ce), from which they brought those horses back.Racing in medieval England began when horses for sale were ridden in competition by professional riders to display the horses’ speed to buyers. During the reign of Richard the Lionheart (1189–99), the first known racing purse was offered, £40, for a race run over a 3-mile (4.8-km) course with knights as riders. In the 16th century, Henry VIII imported horses from Italy and Spain (presumably Barbs) and established studs at several locations. In the 17th century, James I sponsored meetings in England. His successor, Charles I, had a stud of 139 horses when he died in 1649.Charles II (reigned 1660–85) became known as “the father of the English turf” and inaugurated the King’s Plates, races for which prizes were awarded to the winners. His articles for these races were the earliest national racing rules. The horses raced were six years old and carried 168 pounds (76 kg), and the winner was the first to win two 4-mile (6.4-km) heats. The patronage of Charles II established Newmarket as the headquarters of English racing.The earliest races were match races between two or at most three horses, the owners providing the purse, a simple wager. An owner who withdrew commonly forfeited half the purse, later the whole purse, and bets also came under the same “play or pay” rule. Agreements were recorded by disinterested third parties, who came to be called keepers of the match book. One such keeper at Newmarket in England, John Cheny, began publishing An Historical List of All Horse-Matches Run (1729), a consolidation of match books at various racing centres, and this work was continued annually with varying titles, until in 1773 James Weatherby established it as the Racing Calendar, which was continued thereafter by his family.By the mid-18th century the demand for more public racing had produced open events with larger fields of runners. Eligibility rules were developed based on the age, sex, birthplace, and previous performance of horses and the qualifications of riders. Races were created in which owners were the riders (gentlemen riders), in which the field was restricted geographically to a township or county, and in which only horses that had not won more than a certain amount were entered. An act of the British Parliament of 1740 provided that horses entered had to be the bona fide property of the owners, thus preventing “ringers,” a superior horse entered fraudulently against inferior horses; horses had to be certified as to age; and there were penalties for rough riding.Contemporary accounts identified riders (in England called jockeys—if professional—from the second half of the 17th century and later in French racing), but their names were not at first officially recorded. Only the names of winning trainers and riders were at first recorded in the Racing Calendar, but by the late 1850s, all were named. This neglect of the riders is partly explained in that when races consisted of 4-mile heats, with the winning of two heats needed for victory, the individual rider’s judgment and skill were not so vital. As dash racing (one heat) became the rule, a few yards in a race gained importance, and, consequently, so did the rider’s skill and judgment in coaxing that advantage from his mount.All horse racing on the flat except quarter-horse racing involves Thoroughbred horses. Thoroughbreds evolved from a mixture of Arab, Turk, and Barb horses with native English stock. Private studbooks had existed from the early 17th century, but they were not invariably reliable. In 1791, Weatherby published introductions to a General Stud Book, the pedigrees being based on earlier Racing Calendars and sales papers. After a few years of revision, it was updated annually. All Thoroughbreds are said to descend from three “Oriental” stallions (the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Barb, and the Byerly Turk, all brought to Great Britain, 1690–1730) and from 43 “royal” mares (those imported by Charles II). The preeminence of English racing and hence of the General Stud Book from 1791 provided a standard for judging a horse’s breeding (and thereby, at least to some degree, its racing qualities). In France the Stud Book Française (beginning in 1838) originally included two classifications: Orientale (Arab, Turk, and Barb) and Anglais (mixtures according to the English pattern), but these were later reduced to one class, chevaux de pur sang Anglais (“horses of pure English blood”). The American Stud Book dates from 1897 and includes foals from Canada, Puerto Rico, and parts of Mexico, as well as from the United States.The long-standing reciprocity among studbooks of various countries was broken in 1913 by the Jersey Act passed by the English Jockey Club, which disqualified many Thoroughbred horses bred outside England or Ireland. The purpose of the act was ostensibly to protect the British Thoroughbred from infusions of North American (mainly U.S.) sprinting blood. After a rash of victories in prestigious English races by French horses with “tainted” American ancestry in the 1940s, the Jersey Act was rescinded in 1949.The original King’s Plates were standardized races—all were for six-year-old horses carrying 168 pounds at 4-mile heats, a horse having to win two heats to be adjudged the winner. Beginning in 1751, five-year-olds carrying 140 pounds (63.5 kg) and four-year-olds carrying 126 pounds (57 kg) were admitted to the King’s Plates, and heats were reduced to 2 miles (3.2 km). Other racing for four-year-olds was well established by then, and a race for three-year-olds carrying 112 pounds (51 kg) in one 3-mile (4.8-km) heat was run in 1731. Heat racing for four-year-olds continued in the United States until the 1860s. By that time, heat racing had long since been overshadowed in Europe by dash racing, a “dash” being any race decided by only one heat, regardless of its distance.
I totally agree the cruelty must stop