Thoughts on this letter to the editor?

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by paisjpq

tough call....it's always hard when a person who is well spoken takes aspects of truth and twists them to suit an agenda....she's not totally wrong in what she says...and yet I would never say I agree with her either. The dark aspects of the horse racing industry exist and I guess the real message is that it in everyone's best interest to try to fix them....then letters like hers won't have a leg to stand on...until then....she ain't wrong no matter how she says it.

I guess that is the part that irritated me most as she paints a picture that all of racing is evil and cruel and no one cares. All of life has a dark side - unfortunately.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

I guess that is the part that irritated me most as she paints a picture that all of racing is evil and cruel and no one cares.

Yeah I know... that kind of thing bothers me too.

[Rudeboyelvis]

I can't imagine how any rational, thinking adult could possibly draw a coorilation between sending animals into a ring to fight for their lives and horse racing...I guess if you want to make a point, and have a forum to do so.....

The end result is that one of them comes out of it alive, albeit bruised, bloodied and tattered - and the other side of the equasion is that rarely, with respect to the amount or races run, misfortune...certainly not planned, expected, "or cheered for" results in a relative demise - keeping in mind that the later is tended to immediately by licensed, trained vetraniarians to insure the animal experiences as little suffering as possible....

Again, hard to fathom that anyone with enough brain cells to think for themselves could possibly look at this without wondering where the author got his/hers credentials