Where do you live? I’d love to submit your comments to the Humane Society so they can take those animals away from you. Then when you’ve paid your fines for animal cruelty, you can go buy a mechanical bull to wrestle with. I hope you break your neck. Who gives a shit if people have been wrestling horses for centuries? If you really think great civilizations were built because of horse wrestling, then you are far too ignorant to be commenting on what empathetic people have to say. It’s people like you that are the reason why hundreds of thousands of seals are still being clubbed to death for their fur, or why the second most intelligent species, Tursiops truncatus, otherwise known as the bottlenose dolphin, is still being kept in captivity to do pointless tricks in too-small tanks for ignorant cunts like you and your bastard husband, or why entire pods of pilot whales are slaughtered annually in the Faroe Islands, including pregnant females whose unborn calves are cut from their wombs, or why 20,000 dolphins are annually slaughtered for food and captured for entertainment in Japan, or why 90% of shark populations have been wiped out because of shark fining, or why bull fighting, which continues to be one of the most disgusting and cruel practices of modern society, is still in existence. People like you who have no sense of empathy towards any living thing other than human beings make me hate the world and hate my own species. I hope your horse kicks you in the head and turns you into a comatose vegetable so your husband has to change your shitty underwear every day, you senseless, hateful bitch.

are yall serious?
GO TO HELL! why dont yall “grow a pair” and shut the fuck up! no one here wants to read yalls nasty rude comments! i love how yall said get a life and stop bitching, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING???!!!! goes for you to Chris Simmons, yall are sitting here bitching about us caring??? really? grow up! since it looks like yall never did.

YALLS COMMENTS ARE NOT NEEDED!!!!
GO TO HELL!!!!

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and brittany, i disagree with you very much! weapons? yeah our hands and strength can be counted as a weapon. if it can hurt someone or something it can be counted as one! there is no “prety gd” about that at all! now i agree with horse racing business, it is very cruel.

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2nd The horses are not pets, they are horsestock, but in most of Galicia they run free allthe year and once a year people meet the horses to cut their hair and mark them.

3rd In the Curros (places to do the Rapa das Bestas) horses are not marked with red irons. The horse traditionaly is marked with a pierce in the ear.

4th The horsehair is cutted to clean the horse from parasites such ticks and fleas. A too long hear is not hygienic and confortable for animals.

5th If the hoof is too long, the people cut it like we do with our nails. Those horses are not using horsheshoes.

6th After the Rapa das bestas, the horse goes back to the mountain and there lives like a wild animal until next year when estays for 1/2 day or less down the mountains, in the village. The work of rapa takes normally 2 or 3 days, because there are many animals free in the mountain and they are token in groups.

7th The horses are not rided because they estay wild. Once a year all the community meets to make this work all toguether. Those horses are owned for everyone in the Galician commonwealth countryside system.

8th This is not animal wrestling or a joy of suffering. Before make an opinion think about the alternatives to keep horse lifestock in a more natural way. Things can be done better, but this is not evil. If you wash your cat or your puppy, you have enough with two hands. If you want to take a wilde horse to cut their hear you need two or more men.

9th We have all the information before talk. I think this not must be done as a show for tourists, because then we can see thinks like in the 3rd picture (a guy jumping over a group of horses). I think in America and in most of western Europe, those works where done in a simmilar way no many centuries ago. But a guy jumping over the horses like in the 2th picture shows what could have been the begining of the rodeos, so, a traditional work that becomes an stupid show.

10th I think those horses enjoy more their lifes as free animals in the Galician mountains that those we see in the horse races or those ones with a saddle and a heavy rider over them many days during the year. Please be objective and make an opinion with knowledge of the context.