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Stylo boots, husky and leg warmers showing above boots?!! Pref burgundy. Cream jods later replaced by Gorringe green cord jods🤣 Early...

In the 70's and 80's For hacking - Quilted jacket (fashionable again) cord jods or breeches, skull cap with chin cup and blue or black...

With a husky jacket for hacking. I still have my slumberdown waistcoat I got for Christmas in 1979 when I was 16, wear it every winter...

Early 70s, beige jodhs, brown jodh boots, polo t shirt for hacking. For comps, pale yellow or blue shirt, smart tie, yellow gloves...

What do you expect PT to say ? Even if he did know that things were not right beneath him, he is never ever going to admit it. whether...

Its possible that the jockey was not aware of the specifics of the horse's injury but he absolutely would have been aware of a problem...

He was ridden through it and whipped to keep going. With a broken back. So yes, those seconds might have made all the difference to...

This injury was unsurvivable, but another might be survivable. If it is the norm to chase an injured horse to the end of the race then...

Really? I don’t know what that felt like as thank god I’ve never been on it but I thought it looked bad. Im not a pro rider and...

Having watched that clip, there's no way in a million years that a jockey who has spent as many hours atop galloping horses as he has...

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

Jockeys are paid to make those split second decisions, that is exactly their skill set. If they cannot do that to protect the horse...

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

He was probably going to be pts regardless but id have rather seen him be pulled up after sprawling, than whipped 3 times during a drive...

Christ 🥴