To tell you all that. Horses don’t want to be drugged up and whipped to provide betting opportunities for people.
You should join PETA (if you haven’t already) and go over to DU.
THEY ARE HEAVILY TESTED FOR ALL SORTS OF DRUGS.
You CLEARLY have never been around horses in your entire life. They LOVE racing, and the nonsense you spew about being drugged up and whipped is just silly. First, they are tested for every drug combination known to man. Secondly, it is a twelve hundred pound animal. Just as a toddler can't hurt an adult with their teddy bear, you cannot significantly injure a horse with a small leather strap. Nor do they want to. The jockeys love and adore their horses, and would never want to harm them. To a horse, it is a pinch on the ass from a lover, not a two by four by an angry Amish person.
Thoroughbreds LOVE freakin’ racing. They know they are epic track gladiators and revel in the challenge. Our off-track, Watson, kicked azz on dirt and is a spectacular family member. Our prior before him, Mickey, didn’t make the cut for the track, but was ridden in training by a triple crown jockey and went on to glory in Hunter-Jumper and Dressage (FTR - not their competition names). He passed at 29 closing out retirement life with long trail walks with the wife sprinkled with occasional charging/chasing off overly bold coyotes.
Granted, there is a vast quantity of people who suck at horses, including a lot who seem to know their crap on the face of it. If you “get” the underlying relationship that you are engaging with a prey animal that MUST be confident that you are not going to “get us eaten” you will forging a bond with an animal that will carry you into battle if called upon.