Horse racing in cities?

[Kyng]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/47323015

Racehorses running down the streets at iconic global locations such as Sydney Harbour Bridge or Fifth Avenue in New York...

It might sound implausible, but the man spearheading the project has told BBC Sport he hopes agreements for the first such race meetings, on a special artificial surface, will be in place by the end of next month.

He is Peter Phillips, the Queen's eldest grandson, and here he outlines details of racing, safety, crowd and betting plans for the 'City Racing' project and how racing's best-known supporter is following the idea...

Phillips, who is 14th in line to the throne, has been working on the proposals for five years since staging an equestrian event on a similar surface on Horse Guards Parade in London.

He says that leg of the Global Champions Tour demonstrated how safe 'pop-up' conditions for horses in a competitive environment could be installed and removed within three days.

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Okay, whose idea was this? Those horses would just look very out of place galloping down The Mall or along the Champs-Élysées - and besides, it'd cause a heck of a lot of disruption, closing all those roads . 

As far as I'm concerned, street racing should be left to motorsport.

[Detective Osprey]

Disgusting. :|

[Lurkerish Allsorts]

I agree with Birds but for different reasons...all that horse manure that will need to be cleaned up in such a large area. One only needs to take a trip to farm land or a Place like Mackinac Island (where cars outside of Police/Fire/EMS are banned) to see..I mean smell how great that will be. City folks are also known to not be able to tolerate it, to the point when they move in to farm land because its "in" then sue the farmers in the area for the smells.

Heck where my family farm is there are no large commercial animal farms nearby (mostly grains, corn and, hay), but some farmers still have some farm animals, and still you can smell it, and I could easily see some "city slicker" who decides to move in and just suing all the old owned for generation family farmers in the area for the smells.

[Altair]

Disgusting. :|

As a strong animal lover, I agree with this 100%.