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Perhaps in circumstances like this,if a horse falls there should be automatic disqualification. It removes the responsibility from the...

perhaps it needs something along the lines of endurance, not proposing to give them 30 mins to fiddle it past but say 10 mins in the...

Imagine saying it about any other sport. Football but you're not allowed to say they should have passed the ball sooner unless you've...

I really thought we were passed this ridiculous type of comment. A world where you can only have an opinion if you are at the ‘top’ of...

There's plenty of blame to go around. I'm also perfectly happy to blame the riders for being the kind of people who are prepared to do...

Only thing to watch is albumin can affect biotin uptake so if your dog is on onychotin or other nail/foot pad supplement they are...

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

Indeed. I watched my beautiful TB trot across the field to me looking good. Tacked up, got on, walked 4 steps and got off. He'd had a...

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...

Lessons are not the easiest way to get back into riding. Quiet hacks slowly increasing in speed and duration are kinder to your body...

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

All the stories today stem from a 2018 tweet by Zack criticising the national. It’s just trying to shift attention from what he’s...

I am glad to see you write that. It’s impossible for anything to be said nowadays without a bit of far right propaganda. Sadly Reform...