I think it is very inhumane. About 4.5-5 years ago I moved to Florida, I was mostly homeless (lived in my van) could not find a job for the life except at a greyhound racing track. I only lasted 4 days, I just could not handle it anymore. I worked with the dogs, gettting them ready for their race. This was the one I worked at not sure how the other ones are cared for but here is my story:

The dogs are housed in small homeade chicken wire/wood crates, stacked on top of one another, they can not even stand fully in them (granted some have homes not sure what the conditions are there, but some practically live at the track). They are NOT anxious at all to come out of the crate & when they see their vest most cower & look so pittiful (nothing at all like how a sled dog gets excited when they see their harness). Then we take them out to a sand yard about 10 feet by 10 feet to potty in (this is where all the dogs go potty, ussually about 5-12 in the area trying to potty at the same time while their *handler* was with them holding the lesh). Many of the other handlers would whip them with leashes just for the he** of it, they would almost litterally drag them around as most greyhounds there just did not want to race. Some dogs would be limping but were still forced to race. There was this one cute brindle male that was my favorite, I let him out to potty on my first day there, his urine was pure blood! I spoke to the vet right away, he said "don't worry about that, he's been peeing pure blood for over 2 years now" exact words!! There was another there that had an eye infection, I went to the vet again right away he said "oh yeah, he was born like that, we keep him well fit & built & just clean up his eyes before any betters see him, they always think he's gonna be a winner, but he can't see well, so he makes us lots of money, we hide him for a little while, change his name so no one catches on" Now this dog was 2 & it was puss coming from his eye, born like that!! Maybe but duh its not a non treatable disease, some antibiotics at least should of cleared it up. Many dogs had scabs, itchy dry skin, dirty ears possibly mites. Fleas, oh my it was terrible. They never treated any dogs there they just cover up the problems. Before they race dogs with dull coats you would have to spraythem with who knows what it was, an unlabeled bottle filled with some greasy stuff you sprayed on the coats to make them shiny. It smelled horrible. And every dog there always had some kind of conconction in their food, weather it was powder, liquid or pills. Everything was unabeled so who knows what the heck it was.
The list goes on & on, this disgusted me so bad & it still bothers me. I really do hope & pray that they have cleaned up their act since then.
I kept on him (the vet), the management & other supervisiors the whole time I was there about all the conditions that were going on & no one was willing to even budge one bit, not even any sympothy in their soul or voice.
And the AKC office was right in the track I couldn't believe they would treat the dogs like this especially since the akc is right there.