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I follow a lot of racing SM posts and I can say that only Bonny and a very few deranged punters think there was nothing wrong in what...

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...

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...

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

I also thought i was posting on this thread The horse was clearly "wrong" after the fence, and a jockey of PT experience should have...

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.

Dressage is saintly in comparison to racing.

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

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...

Fact is the horse broke his back during the race and was whipped to the finish line Is that unemotional and factual enough for you...

He was definitely wrong behind and given the jockey is a professional should have felt it. Would he have carried on if he wasn't...

OMG! That's horrendous. :mad: 💔

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