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What is it like to watch a misguided individual taking control of a racehorse and subjecting it to rigorous and often harmful treatments—such as radical treatments, infestation with parasites for increased agitation, administration of sedatives to induce unconsciousness, thereby endangering its health—and subsequently blaming the horse for failure and laziness because it succumbs to sleep or injuries well before reaching the finish line?
When the world's leading trainer consistently explains that inflicting harm on the horse is unacceptable under any circumstances, it is perplexing that this misguided trainer would believe a certain so-called 'horse' expert and owner of competing racehorses' assertions that harming one's own horse will motivate it to run faster; and that debilitating the horse, rendering it unconscious, will make it win races.
Because such abusive and unethical practices tend to result in detrimental outcomes, not positive results for the current horse and any subsequent horses.
Believe it or not, the root of the problem does not lie with the racehorse but with the ill-informed and reckless trainer.
If such methods were applied to children, it would be classified as severe child abuse.
What parent believes that physically assaulting their child, inflicting inflictions, and resorting to drugs that induce sleepiness, distractibility, and impaired concentration will lead to improvements in behavior or academic performance?
After those abusive practices drive children away or cause lasting harm, what reason do the abusers have to believe that genuine secrets or understanding were ever uncovered due to their continued harmful conduct?
How many races must be lost or remain unfinished, and how many racehorses injured and harmed, before this misguided trainer and other like-minded individuals recognize the error of their ways?
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