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Your idea might well have made the jockey more miraculously aware he was riding a seriously injured horse and pull him up PDQ if he knew...

I was watching the racing this afternoon and saw this race. The horse landed oddly and moved off differently to how it had been moving...

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...

This! The leap from describing condemning whipping a seriously injured horse to the line after he went down with his back end as...

I could be wrong as I have not studied data but my impression is eventing is better than this. I cannot believe any event rider would...

If the only two options are treating them as tools with which to earn money and fame, or not riding them at all, then yes, I agree, we...

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...

Let’s just digest this nugget from the BHA. "After reviewing the footage, The Director of Equine, Safety, and Welfare explained that...

Yep the picture FO has posted is the one I was referring to. How can you guarantee even if he feels fine, there's not something going on...

I'm sorry. I should have fact checked what I wrote before posting but my point stands; incidentally, though, there is this photo. Why...

Doesn’t change the outcome tho, does it?

Why is this your take away??

Doesnt matter in the slightest does it though? But carry on defending this abhorrent abuse of a living, breathing animal whose already...

This just epitomises why I abhor racing If a horse falls it should be in the rules that it be pulled up immediately if the jockey is...