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Randy Janssen

Therefore, a ban on mangana and cola, is incompatible with fairness, especially when you consider the danger inherent with other equestrian events like steeplechase, cross country, thoroughbred racing, bull dogging, calf roping and even team roping. Why should Mexican traditions suffer, while other events that are equally and in some cases more dangerous to horses and steers be allowed to go unmolested? If you want to read a more complete discussion of this issue, go to my web page:

you will see that leg injuries are part of the danger of all equestrian events. If you look at these videos, you will see that rodeo is just as dangerous to horse and other livestock as charreada, steeplechases cross country and racing.

This is the letter I am sending to all of the State Legislatures and the Federal Congress. If you have any comments, please let me know, so any improvements can be made.

It appears that Humane Society has focused its repeated assault on Mexican Traditions by requesting a ban on mangana and cola. They claim that horses are repeatedly crippled and broken in these events, even though they have no empirical evidence to support this. While it is true, that on very infrequent occasions a horse can be hurt in either event, it is nothing compared to the repeated and serious injury suffered by horses in steeplechase, cross country and thoroughbred racing. If you look at this video: