First of all, fuck PETA.

If every member of PETA caught fire, I wouldn't piss on them to put them out.

It does seem as though, lately, there has been a marked increase in the number of horses having to be put down. I don't know whay this is, but I've heard people comment on two things: track surface and horseshoes.

If changes to the track surface can help alleviate the problem, I'm all for it. If racing them without horseshoes helps, I'm all for it.

I don't know a lot about horses. I've ridden in the past, and will ride in the future, but those horses belong to people who know a Helluva' lot more about them than I do.

But, again, as far as PETA is concerned, I wouldn't give them, or what they want, a penny's worth of consideration...