Horse racing = Multi-death industry

To hell with horse racing. It's too heartbreaking. Too many brave and beautiful horses - and jockeys - are killed and crippled by it so that rich men can get even richer.

It's hardly surprising, given that racehorses are first ridden at a year old; a 3-y-o's running in the Belmont is the equivalent of a ten-y-o human's running the Boston Marathon. It's surprising there aren't more breakdowns.

Since Barbaro died I haven't watched any races or read any articles about racing and have no intention of doing so ever again. I've simply had it.

I gave up on baseball when it became steroidal and simultaneously expensive and cheap; I can give up racing. The fact that so much of racing is fixed just increases my disgust.