The petition

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Wow. Okay.

I want to preface this by saying that part of trying to be a good person is, to me, doing whatever it is in your power to make something better. Even if it's close to nothing... the thought of it, the feeling behind it... that counts or should count. Some small thing.

A name of a forgotten, never-known horse and a mention that they are gone is all I can do.

It's smaller than small... it is nothing. It is absolutely nothing.

It doesn't matter if it's a 4k claimer... I will try to pay tribute in my own nothing way - a last time they are named and where they died - on a little nothing thread on the internet.

It's all I can do.

That said, at least give me a little credit here for not being a complete moron.

Equestrian games are bloodsports, no different from bullfights, rodeos or hunting. Any "sport" that involves an unwilling participant is no sport at all, it's torture, murder, exploitation and slavery.


In general I hate bullies and I hate crap like this because people who don't know any better believe this stuff.

You seem like a nice guy and so it hurts my feelings a tiny bit that you presume to know whether or not I'm in any kind of denial and assume that I probably am.

Bad things happen, I know.

This though? This is bullshit.

"Equestrian games are bloodsports, no different from bullfights, rodeos or hunting. Any "sport" that involves an unwilling participant is no sport at all, it's torture, murder, exploitation and slavery."

I would have to agree with you that this statement is a little over the top. I didn't say that I agree with everything that these people say. I was simply saying that horseracing is a cruel sport in general.