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Using a whip in a horserace is not cruel but racing must explain why. The British Horseracing Authority's chief vet highlights why the sport needs to win its case on the burning issue of the moment. Racing's leaders have to convince the general public that using the whip is not cruel.
They were kind-hearted and rarely did anything that was cruel. Supposingââ It was cruel to excite and upset her just for that; it made the pain worse. The contrasts were so cruel that they scorched the eyes of the soul. Those who bring them on us seem captious, thoughtless, cruel. He is cruel, and the very incarnation of selfishness, he said. If he had been guilty, what was that to the cruel world so ready to punish, so ready to do worse! I did not know how cruel they were, or I would have come long ago. Judge what a cruel wound for the heart of that poor shepherd! It's just cruel the way that poor old horse has been neglected.