IN response to Dr Campbell's letter (October 18) it is widely recognised foxes are encouraged to breed for the pleasure of the hunts.
If foxes are hunted to extinction the rabbit population will increase and munch farmers' crops.
Hounds are injured and killed when they stray on to roads and railway lines. Children's pets, especially cats, have been savaged by out-of-control hounds. What an example to set children.
Horses are not only injured and destroyed in the Grand National. In incidents at York races, one at a Sunday meeting last month and one at the last Saturday meeting in October, two horses were injured and destroyed.
I realise that if it wasn't for racing the beautiful Arab horses would not be bred. I just wish the courses and conditions could be made safer for riders and horses.
Ms S Stockton,
Bishopthorpe Road,
York.
Updated: 11:03 Saturday, October 25, 2003
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