Horse Racing!!
Hey crazy cool kids and adults!!
Welcome to the Amazing Blog of Florida, if you are new here, my name is Kaylee and I am your author! Today we are going to talk about horse racing as presented in chapter seventeen. In the chapter, Captain Hendry saw Tobias' horse and it gave him the chills. Seeing the horse made him in the mood for a horse race, but we never got the inside of what a horse race is… that is what I am here for.
Horse races are not just about the big hats and cute outfits, it states in “What is a Horse race?”, “ A horse race is a sporting event in which horses compete for the best time around a track. Horse races may be run on the flat or over a course of jumps, and on turf, sand, or synthetic materials.” In the article we get an idea of how the race is set up and how it changes due to the terrain that is presented. During the race, you can only have certain horses and ways they run. The horses that are presented in the races are “ thoroughbreds, standardbreds and quarter horses”. You can find these certain horses being bred all over the world. During the race, the difficulty is presented by the length, slope, and jumps. At the end of the race, the rider and horse get a prize, but the horse is the one that holds the title, not the person. In the article it states “ In all cases, the owner of the winning horse is awarded a purse which consists of a cash prize and a trophy.”
With this comes the different views, some are not on board and some are all for it. After reading the article and the novel some people do criticize. The ones that do see it as overbreeding and corrupted in the industry. But the ones that do see it as the “sport of kings”.
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