Recent content by Honeylight

Does anyone remember the horse ambulance at Aintree in the 1960-1970s? It was pulled by shire horses. Things have improved since then, horses were left dead at the side of the jumps, there are photographs in books. I remember Channel 4 and John Francome zooming into a to a damaged horse at...

My thoughts about today's race: I am one of the older members, I remember Arkle running and I remember the Duchess of Westminster refused to run his at Aintree. I can't help thinking that the the delay could have added to the death of Hill Sixteen...

The sun aspect and the omitting all the jumps on on side is really getting to me. I just turned it off in the end. One of the runners at Exeter nearly collided with the wings of one of jumps they were omitting. I have seen whole fields snaking between the jumps like gymkhana courses. Can someone...

It looked like a double bridle to me, and the tack failed rather than the bit.

I'm just taking the facts. She will be difficult to find mates and she is a masculine mare....

She's a fabulous racemare but I imagine she will be a poor producer at the paddocks, and that is why I think they have allowed her run at five. She is bred 2X3 to Sadlers Well plus an additional line to Northern Dancer and an extra one to his sire Nearctic. She is also a big masculine type and...

I think I read that an elderly person nearly died at the same time as they couldn't get through in an ambulance.

The image is still seen in books and there are several detailed images on Google including one of him dead after the runners had been by. They would find it difficult to obtain these images now. I am not 100% of what is correct though.....hiding everything behind screens and cutting footage on...

I have been attacked by friends for watching racing and especially at this time of the year, when the fluffies crawl out of the Lush soap bars... Did anyone look at the Horsemart Facebook over the last week? They were running a poll on the Grand National. Initially it was fairly close but it...

Well what I was meaning was there was probably no obvious reason.

I have been trying to defend our sport on the Guardian comments board all week. Many of the posters are obviously very ignorant about horses in general, like saying they are "beaten to death" and "tortured with metal in their mouth and their tongues tied down". Many of these people are the vegan...

It was just the recording on the Virgin box that I set up for terrestrial racing. Were you able to find the race on something?

Poor horse; a freak accident. Perhaps reins need to be looked at, this shouldn't have needed to happen, they need to be made to break with force.

I watched the replay this morning and it is difficult to see what actually happened as he was obscured by other horses. What I did notice was that he didn't actually come down with a rotational fall, more badly interfered with, he could have been bashed by the other faller. The reins were...

I was watching the race on the TV and my partner was in the room, so I didn't rewind to see what happened, he would have gone on all night about me being morbid if I had, but I did notice something strange about the position of one of the loose horse's heads not long before the incident. My...