Peta, its not just the horse that is risking its live IT IS THE RIDER ASWELL!!!! You people take thing way too far!!! I love animals but /i also love horse racing because A: I love horses and B: I love racing, don't take those things away from poeple!! WE also can die too! And if the horse wins, the horse gets rewarded aswell as the owners and trainers!! I agree with the one guest who posted this:

"They are only doing what is right for the animals that are beaten, abused and used and cannot speak for themselves."

WHEN did ANYONE say that Eight Belles was beaten or abused? Hmm ... no one did, making that statement completely irrelevant to this conversation. I think PETA is completely out of line. Horse racing has been a tradition for many centuries. A bunch of animal worshippers are NOT going to put an end to this wonderful sport. Animals die. End of discussion. If a horse in the wild was running and broke its ankles, we simply would call it nature, but if the horse was in a race, PETA jumps on its case. Yet another discrepancy in society

All animals die, but eight belles and other race horses can die in pride like Barbaro or Ruffian aswell as Eight Belles. This sport has ;asted long and for centuries, don't end it for us now, I wish to become a jocky someday and if you take horse racing away you are taking peoples dreams away and jobs away!!! So just SHUT UP and focuse on other problems. Eight Belles was not abused, she was well treated and you could tell by her coat and the speed she ran at. So leave us ALONE!!!