Download e-book for iPad: The Global Horseracing Industry: Social, Economic, by Phil McManus,Glenn Albrecht,Raewyn Graham

Horseracing, thoroughbred breeding and playing on racing are worldwide industries worthy a number of hundred billion money. also they are industries dealing with critical demanding situations, from the increase of other kinds of relaxation playing to issues in regards to the moral remedy of animals in all equestrian activities. This publication deals a broad-ranging exam of the modern horseracing undefined, from geographical, financial, social, moral and environmental perspectives.

The e-book attracts on in-depth, mixed-method study into the racing and breeding industries within the US, Australia, the united kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, and comprises comparative fabric on different key racing centres, resembling eire, Singapore and Hong Kong. It explores the industrial constitution of the worldwide racing enterprise, together with comparisons with different significant overseas recreation companies and different equestrian activities. It examines the social and cultural roots of the game via its organization with, and impression on, rural locations, groups and environments from Kentucky to Newmarket – highlighting racing’s specific mix of culture and clinical and technological innovation. The ebook additionally explores the moral concerns on the center of horseracing, from copy to using the whip, and the inescapable rigidity among the pony as an instrumentally worthy commodity and the pony as an intrinsically invaluable animal with wishes and pursuits.

The worldwide Horseracing Industry concludes by means of contemplating replacement futures for this significant overseas activities enterprise. The e-book is illuminating interpreting for anyone with an curiosity in game, company, cultural geography, animal stories, or environmental studies.