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Quote from: Yucky on October 01, 2024, 02:24:25 AM

Quote from: stompix on September 29, 2024, 04:53:22 PM

It's a festival charity event, that has been held for a decade already, and they don't have just ducks they have piglet racing too, it's a kid show, and obviously no gambling on it.
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If you say it's for charity and it's even a children's activity and that no harm is brought to the animals and the vets and the animal regulatory bodies are all around in case an animal gets hurt, then I guess it's one event I'd consider attending to see how it works. But, I'm a bit curious to see the ducks run or walk because they walk slowly and in a funny manner. I'm not familiar with such racing.

I left a link there on what those races are, the video is actually from where the screenshot was taken.
Here is another one:
https://www.tiktok.com/@vincent_zs/video/7283072654435765506

The UK is full of those events, it's just a small gated track probably less than 50 meters with or without small obstacles and the ducks are let loose from their cages with somebody walking behind them to encourage them to go on, there are no whips or other things, it's farms animals and they are used to being guided by humans to either food or their shelter so they just go and follow the track.
There are plenty of other activities at those rural fairs, I'm quite amazed by people being amazed at their existence, they've been around for ages, one of the funniest but also boring happening around her is the carrot finding competition where some rabbits are released in a pen and the first one getting to a hidden carrot is the winner.

Quote from: Yucky on October 01, 2024, 02:24:25 AM

Although, I'm still curious as to why it's an animal for charity, couldn't it have been something else?

It doesn't always have to be for a charity but most are, the way it works is that everyone gets a ticket for $x and the "winner" gets a toy or plushie, I don't recall a single event like this nor in my town or somewhere else when it was real betting with odds and stuff like this, first you would need a gambling license for it and nobody would go through all that trouble.

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Everyone who organizes any kind of race has a big imagination. We have seen many races; it is quite exciting, as long as it does not violate someone's rights and freedom. In order not to create a separate topic on the diversity of races, I will also add a race that has become very popular in the world recently. It is called the "crawling baby race."
A really cute spectacle, but I would like these entertainments not to turn into some kind of business for making money.

https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/human-interest/toddler-crawling-race-goes-viral-597526.html

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I remember watching a pig race and other animal race but never watch a duck race. I remember also that there’s a start up project before that involves rat race that let you bet live on rat that enter through the tunnel and meet the finish line with the food. The project didn’t last long but the concept is odd same as this kind of race.

Regardless, human is always gullible when it comes to animal racing but so far horse racing is always the best to watch live.

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Quote from: TheUltraElite on October 01, 2024, 05:59:47 AM

Hilarious to see how much humans are willing to do just to get an excuse to place a bet and watch the game unfold.

I have seen monkey fights and cock fights, horse racing and human (duh) racing. Grin

Locate any chance based event and it can be the new place to bet on, like how many building are going to get broken in a hurricane and so on. All these exemplify the need for the human mind for the dopamine rush from gambling.

When reading this thread it really made me curious to know more about the details since its really hilarious to know that there's something betting option like this exist.

I don't see this happening in my country and here are some gamblers think about new way to spend their money with. Those things you mentioned is pretty common but Duck racing its really rare. Imagine who the hell would ever think that its really possible to bet on duck race.

Maybe the coordinator of that game if they call it like that got inspired on horse racing and they think about other think just to make it unique and new to their eyes.

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Hilarious to see how much humans are willing to do just to get an excuse to place a bet and watch the game unfold.

I have seen monkey fights and cock fights, horse racing and human (duh) racing. Grin

Locate any chance based event and it can be the new place to bet on, like how many building are going to get broken in a hurricane and so on. All these exemplify the need for the human mind for the dopamine rush from gambling.

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This is good news for ducks—the luckiest ones won’t be eaten anymore Grin

. Well, personally I’ve never seen this before, but when it comes to the gambling industry, I suppose anything is possible. Ducks, chickens, anything that moves. I guess speed isn’t as important as the entertainment it provides to gamblers...Just seeing a duck walking makes me laugh, so imagine we bet on them.. what a funny idea Cheesy

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The betting and prediction market has been growing so fast recently that I'm not at all surprised that someone is having a duck race. I recently looked at what bets can be placed on Polymarket and was very surprised at the wide variety of bets. So don't be too surprised if you see an offer to bet on a tiger, bear or kangaroo race next year. I am sure that if someone launches such races, there will be interested bettors.

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Quote from: Sandra_hakeem on September 29, 2024, 03:58:38 PM

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Hm, ducks, and what about cockroach racing which is very popular in Australia and involves a bunch of local bets on its outcomes. Different nations invented a variety of betting events like those hoarse/duck/cockroach/you-name-it racing to make either money or fun (^{or both)} because ^{(as I suspect)} there is some kind of gene in human genome which makes the betting to be a part of people existence.

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Quote from: sompitonov on October 01, 2024, 03:48:28 AM

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We see that this is not a big deal but not for other people especially if they are in the animal protection programs. They will tells to that people who use animal to gambling that is not ethics.
That makes them gambling using animal in a secret place without any interfere from people who don't like gambling using animal. Well, animal competition does exist but that depends on what people reaction to that.
People who gambling like that finds an exciting experience using animal such as dogs, chicken, or other animals.

I like gambling, but to be honest I don't want to bet on anything involving animals. I prefer various sports in which athletes compete even without my bet to check who is stronger, faster or has better technique and experience than the opponent. In animal races or fights, of course, there is a factor of unpredictability, but for me it looks primitive. However, I know that for some people, for example, cockfights were part of the culture, their entertainment after hard and exhausting days of work in the fields, when they wanted to experience a little fun and excitement. But this was earlier, now bookmakers offer a huge number of sports and events for betting.

Isnt duck racing a light version of a real competition. Compared to dog fights, you dont need to specially train your duck to make it angry; you need to keep it hungry so it would see opponent as food. Anger and hunger wont help in running. You need to beat your duck to make it run faster. Doubt that ducks can be even trained (like animals are beaten in circus to train tricks) to do something special. One thing a person can do is to run behind ducks, as if he is trying to catch them. That might stimulate them to run faster. Can this be considered as frightening them on purpose and it causes them stress and health problems?

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Quote from: traderethereum on October 01, 2024, 03:07:50 AM

We see that this is not a big deal but not for other people especially if they are in the animal protection programs. They will tells to that people who use animal to gambling that is not ethics.
That makes them gambling using animal in a secret place without any interfere from people who don't like gambling using animal. Well, animal competition does exist but that depends on what people reaction to that.
People who gambling like that finds an exciting experience using animal such as dogs, chicken, or other animals.

I like gambling, but to be honest I don't want to bet on anything involving animals. I prefer various sports in which athletes compete even without my bet to check who is stronger, faster or has better technique and experience than the opponent. In animal races or fights, of course, there is a factor of unpredictability, but for me it looks primitive. However, I know that for some people, for example, cockfights were part of the culture, their entertainment after hard and exhausting days of work in the fields, when they wanted to experience a little fun and excitement. But this was earlier, now bookmakers offer a huge number of sports and events for betting.

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Quote from: Agbamoni on September 30, 2024, 06:27:36 AM

I don't see any big deal using animals for sports games because if we humans can do sports then they can as well partake in sports activities. The only addition to it is that people do bet on them. But what is the fun of the game if we don't have our favorite side to win and other losing side. That is why it's called sports and gambling is involve in sports so that gamblers will have fun or profit out of it.

Animal competition does exist in a lot of countries. Even those countries that it was bound in, people still practice the gambling and animal sports secretly.

We see that this is not a big deal but not for other people especially if they are in the animal protection programs. They will tells to that people who use animal to gambling that is not ethics.
That makes them gambling using animal in a secret place without any interfere from people who don't like gambling using animal. Well, animal competition does exist but that depends on what people reaction to that.
People who gambling like that finds an exciting experience using animal such as dogs, chicken, or other animals.

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Quote from: stompix on September 29, 2024, 04:53:22 PM

Quote from: Sandra_hakeem on September 29, 2024, 03:58:38 PM

* Do you think it's a fair game for the gamblers and the organizers as well?

It's a festival charity event, that has been held for a decade already, and they don't have just ducks they have piglet racing too, it's a kid show, and obviously no gambling on it.
There are plenty of other, Dock Dogs, and rabbit shows.

As I said, nothing special for the US and parts of England/Ireland , the fair from which the video was taken is in Door county, over 100 years old festival with nearly the same stuff, just a little altered.
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Quote from: sunsilk on September 29, 2024, 04:21:30 PM

It's fun but you'd see the animal welfare organizations will be dismayed by such races being organized.

There is no harm to the animals, they just make one quick turn and that's it, the fair has been going for 150 years, and it's just a kid show, they have a vet in place, it's mandatory by law on any farm fair or expo.

If you say it's for charity and it's even a children's activity and that no harm is brought to the animals and the vets and the animal regulatory bodies are all around in case an animal gets hurt, then I guess it's one event I'd consider attending to see how it works. But, I'm a bit curious to see the ducks run or walk because they walk slowly and in a funny manner. I'm not familiar with such racing.

If these animals are not being restricted from going to their natural habitat or treated poorly, then having such charity organizations once in a while for whatever reason, the organization may not be so bad. As long as the animals are being treated properly. Although, I'm still curious as to why it's an animal for charity, couldn't it have been something else? All the same, thanks for enlightening us about the race and how animals are being taken care of.

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Quote from: Strongkored on September 30, 2024, 11:37:50 PM

I saw it was funny (I searched on YouTube) and I didn't even get any adrenaline out when I watched it because of its funny behavior.

Whether it is fair or not for gamblers and organizers is not the main thing in my opinion because if the aim is purely for gambling they will make other bets, for example cockfighting, horse racing, and the betting system is made by The organizer is known to the bettors so this should be fair.

For me this also looks like a fun activity only. Duck racing has only entertaining purpose. I feel like they are organized on a fairies, or traveling circus or amusement park have them. This isnt gambling. Same as throwing darts into balloons in amusement park would be called gambling, because there are elements of lack, random and money are involved during getting the prize. But the thing I like that duck racing - I believe duck get no harm during race, or training or preparation for the race. It is not the same as cock or dog fighting.

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Quote from: Sandra_hakeem on September 29, 2024, 03:58:38 PM

Well, I've been doing alot of reading in the past days.. During one of my expeditions, I stumbled on a video -- The competition between ducks ( not the rubber or simulated ones) -- a real duck!
* Has anyone found an interest in stopping by the fields where these games are initiated before?
* How was your xperience?

This is the first time I've heard of such an activity. I find this type of gambling funny. I usually don't like the exploitation of animals, especially such cruel ones where they use fighting cocks.
They suffer for the sake of human vices, and this is unacceptable. But these goose races are funny and fun, because these animals do not suffer in this case. I would love to attend such an event, because it seems to me that if you drink beer and watch it with friends, you can have fun

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I saw it was funny (I searched on YouTube) and I didn't even get any adrenaline out when I watched it because of its funny behavior.

Whether it is fair or not for gamblers and organizers is not the main thing in my opinion because if the aim is purely for gambling they will make other bets, for example cockfighting, horse racing, and the betting system is made by The organizer is known to the bettors so this should be fair.

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Quote from: salad daging on September 30, 2024, 09:14:13 AM

Maybe it's a rural festival and they're not aiming to gamble, they're just having fun with the festival.

Interested in coming to this field, but not the purpose of betting but just want to see the action.
So far there has been no experience in my country of anything like this.
Yeah it seems like a fair game for gamblers because it will depend on luck, we don't know which duck is the fastest, maybe for me this is fair.

This type of racing was common in the village side is my opinion and he way of looking forward of winning using this game was unique one.Most of the people will just watch this type gambling and enjoy by watching.But the gamblers who use their money in any form of gambling will have the real fun compared to the other people.If you watch you just predict and just have fun.But if you predict after the money you earned and used for the betting,the real fun you will enjoy because of the money earning by the prediction in the game.

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This isn't surprising considering we have seen or heard about a sport where people have sex and others make bets on which team will win, lol. The world is going crazy these days, you will be surprised by the kind of sports and games they are coming up with. I have seen slap competitions being held on international levels, I mean, are we running out of proper sports and games which is why we are relying on such things?

I wonder if people make bets on such games and sports only to waste their money. Some might do it only for fun but for gains, I don't think so. There are so many legit and good sports out there, sports where you can do analysis and make your bets on logics instead of going with your gut feelings and because you find a participant cute.

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Quote from: tread93 on September 29, 2024, 09:20:00 PM

This is quacktastic lmfao wow this takes the cake for all the posts on here today 😂. Where can I sign up and make my first duck race bet? This would be so funny to watch I’m sure I am truly laughing hysterically right now lol.

Duck racing, eh? I assume if I searched on Youtube I'd find an example of this stuff in action, but for the life of me I can't wrap my head around it. It seems to me like it'd be trying to get cats to race--you just can't train certain animals to do certain things, like run around a track in competition with each other.

Aside from that, having a winged creature engage in a foot race....yeah, there's a big part of me that doesn't think that's cool. Not like I'm a PETA member, but I'm not a fan of using animals for entertainment or gambling purposes in a way that's unnatural to them or harms them. That said, I haven't read this whole thread nor looked into the ethical concerns surrounding duck races. If those thoughts weren't whizzing around in my head, I'd join tread93 in laughing 'til my face turned blue.

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Not really animal centric but go sub to redbulls YT. They do crazy (and weird) sports out there and I wouldn't doubt it if Red bull all of a sudden decided to start some sort of competition with those types of activities. It's just weird... and entertaining at the same time lol.

Quote from: adultcrypto on September 30, 2024, 07:16:55 AM

This is more of entertainment than gambling. I have seen a couple of those funny events and what I like most is the fun the people derived from those events. I have even see one involving babies crawling, where the winning is usually the first to move from one end to the other. It is usually more of fun than the gambling, maybe this is where gambling for fun really come in. Animals can actually be trained to be competitive so predicting the outcome of their even could be easy judging from their past records.

Well you've seen people betting on who's the next president, who's going to win the miss universe, and the like, why not watch ducks racing each other? Grin

. Animals being competitive isn't anything new, just that there are a lot of trainers for the most common animals like dogs and horses. And yeah, there's probably a lot less variance in them competing compared to human sports.

We can not compare human sport with animal although it can be fun seeing docks racing and how intelligent they could be to make sure that they come the first position individually. Animal sports is all fun and we should endeavor to watch them race because their are lots of things we can learn about them. Animals are wonderful creatures and seeing their agility and focus in competitions can be really impressive and I urge everyone to give it a try at least watch their sports if we don't have access to it on TV, we can check on YouTube or other sport websites.

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Quote from: Sandra_hakeem on September 29, 2024, 03:58:38 PM

Well, I've been doing alot of reading in the past days.. During one of my expeditions, I stumbled on a video -- The competition between ducks ( not the rubber or simulated ones) -- a real duck!
* Has anyone found an interest in stopping by the fields where these games are initiated before?
* How was your xperience?
* Do you think it's a fair game for the gamblers and the organizers as well? More illustrations on the picture below:

We do have several animals that had been involved on these kind of racing.
Dogs and Pigs (For sure there would be others too)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmgpCD9JA2E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEX787opZvE

*Totally depends on a certain individual and for me then it wont really be that a bad idea or thing for you to consider out on making up some bet.
*I have dont it before but as we can see on which there were people who are really that betting on it, so it must be fun.
*When it comes to fairness then as long those animals are on the same condition or state when it comes to health and other factors which to be the same
then it could really be said that it is really just that fair enough.

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