3OldPonies's latest activity

Grim🤢🤢🤢🤢 this attitude shouldnt be allowed anywhere near a horse

Why not? The jockey was in charge of the horse at the time, he should have pulled up immediately. I've been a fan of racing and horse...

Have seen another angle going into the last and possibly something has already "gone" which might explain why his back end almost...

I worked in racing for many years. I loved it. I had no real Interest in racing when I started but needed some extra money for my own...

I really, really struggle to understand how an experienced rider wouldn’t feel immediately that this was a serious injury: Any rider...

Does any of this actually matter? just because you don't think the horse looked like he was in physical distress, you can't surely...

So someone who has not even watched the race is happy to condemn those who think that the jockey should have pulled the horse up rather...

This is awful and will only lend weight in Zach Polanski's call to ban racing. He also wants to remove equestrian sport from the...

Because they are trying to protect the racing industry which employs them. This stinks. But far too many people saw what really...

Yes very telling its so impossible to defend Think it makes it even worse it was a broken back, a tendon or shoulder while awful...

I feel embarrassed that I used to watch the national. A horse half-falling should be pulled up. They should not be allowed to carry on...

Ride all you like, compete all you like, I just don't think there should be prize money - and if sports die as a result, then it was...

Comparing it to other sports that have their own respective ill's is a waste of time, two wrongs do not make a right, neither does a...

Or respect the huge privilege it is to do so and stop treating them like dispensable machines. Either works.

It was horrific however I’m always equally shocked by the event horses that slither and stumble over fences then canter away and carry...