I haven't read through this entire thread, so forgive me if I sound ignorant.

While I do know that there are inhumane races, it is my opinion that there are more humane ones than there are inhumane. If anyone here watches the lure chasing events on Top Dogs, they can see how well taken care of the sighthounds are. They do interviews with the owners and they seem like they generally love their dogs and just compete to have fun. While there are LOTS of inhumane ones, when I think of those, I think of the races on the real tracks with the electric rabbit and the dogs being kept in cages all of the time and looking unhealthy, with lots of them belonging to only one owner, and with people bidding money and the prize being a huge cash prize. When I see the humane races (like on Top Dogs), I see that most of the dogs are owned by individual owners, they are in top condition with good health, they don't run on real tracks but on a grassy field, the prize is usually small, and usually not cash but a trophy, and the owners are always smiling and happy and they laugh when their dog runs of the course to go play.

I think what most people on this thread are talking about are the "real" racing events where people bid on the dogs. I don't like the idea of those types of events at all. But I love to watch the humane sighthound events and see how much fun everyone has.