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Persuasive Essay On Horse Racing

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It was a sunny Sunday afternoon at Gulfstream Horse Race Track on January 14, 2016 and all of the 30,000 fans were ecstatic to see the race. All the horses were in the Starting Gate ready to take off, and the Jockeys were ready to race as well. The person starting the race cocked his gun and shot it directly in the air; the race was on. It seemed like every fan was cheering and screaming for their horse when all of the sudden, horse number seven, Chief Warrior, went down. The people who had Chief Warrior were yelling at the horse “Get up Horse, I have a ton of money on the line here”, There was a pair of medics who came running, swiftly down to the scene of the injury; one of the medics went to the horse, and the other pair of medics went to the jockey. Surprisingly, the horse and the jockey had the same injury, which was a broken leg. The medic for the jockey put him in the medical truck and he was going to the hospital. All the people in Gulfstream gasped as the broken leg. Just because a horse breaks its leg, it’s not okay to kill him. A horse can heal from a broken leg just like a human being can. It is just astonishing how bad horses in horse racing are treated. Horseracing is very cruel to animals; it needs to stop because horses are racing at too young of an age and it is hard on the horses’ body, horses are getting badly drugged to produce better, and horses who race are dying at incredibly fast rates.
Horse racing is a sport that has been around since the

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