These

demands from the PETA wackos demonstrates what their true agenda is:

1) No racing or training for a thoroughbred until it turns 3 years old. The organization contends the animals' legs aren't fully developed until then.

2) No more racing on dirt tracks. The group says the synthetic surfaces now used at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., and at California tracks are far safer and result in fewer equine breakdowns and fatalities.

3) Cap the number of times a horse races each year.

4) Ban whipping. PETA says that when jockeys flail horses with a riding crop the animals can be forced beyond their physical limits.

This is based on lies. Most of these horses are lightly raced, certainly far less raced than in the days of Secretariat, much less than the days of Citation or Whirlaway. And horses were MORE fit then.

The spokesperson is also full of shit. Eight Belles was finished racing and was being eased when she fell, not running at top speed. That's what made her collapse so freakish.