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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...

Why not? The jockey was in charge of the horse at the time, he should have pulled up immediately. I've been a fan of racing and horse...

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

I’m also quite alarmed that anyone wouldn't think the horse looked particularly off with a literal broken back 🫠

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...

I don't know but it might make a huge difference to the way racing is viewed and the way that other horses would be treated...

I'm not especially interested in racing any more but I really, truly think you are wrong. Gold Dancer landed very, very badly and in a...

I’m not sure that anyone thinks the outcome would have been different, but you ARE defending the jockey without watching the race. I...

Your idea might well have made the jockey more miraculously aware he was riding a seriously injured horse and pull him up PDQ if he knew...

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...

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...

I wore the same as you in that era. In the 1980’s, when I was a child/teenager and didn’t have a pony and rarely rode, I did have a...

I’ve just clocked Red Rum’s grave to the left of the finish post, I knew it was there but just hadn’t noticed it before.