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No, the UK isn't the country with the strictest rules..... Switzerland has banned the whip in flat racing, racing didn't stop and...

I guess the really big question here is - is it ok in this supposedly enlightened age to still find it acceptable that animals are being...

The rhythm here extends to the mouth-opening...

So, what is a jockeys job? To win the race, or to look after the horse they’re working? It cannot always be both.

The people choose to operate within the system though. And many many more choose to support it. Systems are not an organic phenomenon...

from the pic of the incident in post 22 I have never seen a happier looking horse. Certainly didn't look to be in any pain or distress...

Just to add to this - Zack is also on record from historical tweets as condemning use of horses in sport, and at the Olympics. As a...

I took some time to speak to an ex jump jockey at my yard this morning about this. She is horrified and cannot imagine that the jockey...

Rather than being defended he should be losing his licence and warned off all racecourses. I can barely believe that a 'top' jockey can...

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...

Yes. I think the issue here is he was ridden through it and that was wrong

Yes, the pts was inevitable either way. But I'd rather some humanity and respect was shown to the horse. I think however much...

Horrific. Jockey should be banned for life and prize money withheld/donated to ROR charity with lots of investigations to find out why...

People beliving than Paul Townend a very experience jockey didn't feel the horse wasn't right are naive, to say the slightest... Of...

In fifty or hundred years time our decendants will look at horse sport as akin to bear baiting.