People claim that you just can't ban horse racing - there are too many people making a living out of raising, training, riding, and shooting horses to do that.
Ending an industry by government fiat is always tricky, hence I make the following transitional suggestions:
* the ultimate goal: a racing industry based on human ridden, robotic horses, powered by rechargeable batteries (to be charged from solar farms on former horse stud land)
* transitional provisions:
a. University engineering schools to develop courses devoted to robot horses, and their rechargeable batteries (the entire economy will benefit from the latter).
b. Race meetings to immediately move to having half of all races run with jockeys and trainers in pantomime horses until sufficient robotic horses start to come on track.
c. All retired thoroughbred horses to be housed in spare bedrooms of the breeders. That should solve the over-breeding issue.
I think this is a wise and reasonable suggestion. If there was a way retired horses could shoot injured pantomime horses I would try to factor that in too, but I am a realist.
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