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The horse was shot to put it out of it's misery. You don't follow horse racing because if you did you would realize that last year, I think, they tried to rehabilitate another horse that broke it leg, Barbaro. All of their efforts and no matter the amount of cash spent was not enough to make the horse comfortable enough to be put out to stud, yes that is where that term is derived from. In otherwords the owner of Barbaro tried to make that horse comfortable enough to just mate with other horses and it was still too painful for the horse that never recovered from a broken leg.
They shot the horse only because it would be more torture to the animal to try and nurse it back to health than put it out of it's misery. Plus a champion thoroughbred will not race if it is treadted poorly, on the other side of the coin a fighting dog will not fight well unless mistreated and abused. Eight Belles wasn't killed because it finished second in the Kentucky derby, like the dogs killed because they didn't fight other dogs well enough. In Micheal Vicks case the dogs were put out of their misery if they did poorly and were continually tortured if they did well, quite the opposite of horse racing.
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