The sport have failed to keep up with other sports like volley, basketball, soccer, tennis and others, the truth is horse racing isn't modern type of gambling and the competition already outpace many attempts of horse racing bets companies.
We all love horse racing, in the 90s I prefer watching movies that have horses in them, that's why I get so much love for cowboy movies, Clint Eastwood for example, people like OP still believes that horse racing rocks, that's no lie, today, many people believe that horse racing can be saved if bring into the modern age but sadly, many believe it's still too old fashioned, and this my friend is where I belong.
Moreover horse racing is no longer a trend and there are only a few countries that have this type of sport and quite a few countries also prohibit horse racing because they think it is very torturous to animals.
Due to the increasingly rapid development of the times it seems difficult for horse racing to grow again and be loved by many people again like it was a few years ago when it was still in the 90s.
I agree with you, because mainly things when it comes to how to train horses, you can simply stick to the rules of those who do that type of sport, but what you say is real, now things can be seen from In other ways, people do not like horses so now they are much more focused on protecting animals and the trend is then these types of things that we as people should also see, this like cockfighting are things that They have ceased to exist, which is why organizations now try to protect these types of animals and of course animals in extinction much more so, for this reason you always have to put things in context.
Animals at the world level are very protected, I don't really understand why the mistreatment towards horses is, but to be in a competition I imagined that the training was like training an athlete with his diet, with his different vitamins, but I never imagined that for That the horses that performed had to be so mistreated were things that I really didn't know, when I found out I am obviously one of those who support not animal abuse because things shouldn't be like that either, the animals need to take care of themselves, but in the case of bettors must understand that things cannot be that way either.
There is a big problem with the cockfight, but that is much stronger because things there last Until one of the two animals dies , so it seems to me that it is a practice of betting that is too high, I don't agree, the truth is never I have been to a cockfight, and in horse races I know that they still put them on and bet, but the truth is I don't know in which countries they do them, and if it is legal in those countries, but I am curious, because it is difficult , there are many to bet and well things tend to be quite Difficult Because the possibilities are many.