Support The Horses - Say the Pippins - Ban The Whip

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As staunch believers in animal welfare and animal rights, we thoroughly support Animal Aid in their feelings towards the incredibly popular Cheltenham Festival in the UK. Horses are frequently run to death for the sake of entertainment and big money gambling.

Lots of wages are paid and many people make money on the back of gambling. It is a super huge business and provides a lot of men and women with jobs. As does racing itself and all the people who work with the horses themselves and at the events and the racecourse.

I myself once worked in a betting shop - a bookies - quite some time ago now and it got packed on race days. I always found it a bit sleazy though.

I also once worked in a casino and again it was awful watching people keep gambling when they had no hope of retrieving their losses. I did myself no favours with the management when I began to hint at certain customers that they should reign things in a bit - but I couldn't stand watching them throwing their money away - it was truly ghastly and I'm glad I tried to help them.

So - there will be many posing young women of questionable virtue in scanty outfits, with rears to rival the horses, as well as would be 'gents' and 'toffs'  (said in Charles Dickens vernacular) in coat hanger jackets with hair transplants and suits freshly out of mothballs for the Cheltenham Festival events.

Not one of them appears to care for the true welfare of the horses  - only of being seen on TV or snapped for the papers. Well some of us do care and there are more voices than one would think.