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Yup, just providing fodder for the "it's how you raise them" brigade.

I'm late to this discussion but to throw my 2p in the ring..... I think equestrian sports need to take a long hard look at ourselves...

Update - so I was patient and waited it out and so far so good! He’s now out on a small bare paddock all day and in at night and vet is...

You could see that is another reason for withholding prize money. If the horse is not conditioned enough to perform well but the prize...

Well, I am glad for you, you seems to have only visited nice yard where horses are turned out and ridden by nice lads in adequat tack...

Totally agree and I've said so before. Add to that not drilled in schools, no lever bits, no crank nosebands, no draw reins, no spurs...

Honestly, **** racing, don't care if that makes me a middle-aged snowflake. We have a racecourse 5 minutes drive from our house, never...

It's a shame as I don't actually think amongst all the competitive horse sports that racing is inherently flawed. Would a horse rather...

Yes, i remember one year in Pau ( France), I was leading Berryville in the big race, he broke his shoulder jumping the water jump and...

Let’s turn this around. What would the same jockey have done if he had been schooling Golden Dancer over jumps at home and the horse had...

I have been thinking this myself. Therefore only those finishing sound can be winners. Lame horses eliminated just like in endurance. I...

It’s about accountability. You do something bad, people can say you did something bad. And if enough people think what you did was bad...

Therein lies the problem. You are quite right of course, it would not be being debated quite so much, but it should be.

Tidy stable management and the basic biological needs of equids are often confused :rolleyes: