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I too agree that he looked off at the second last jump. I suspect the injury occurred there and that was the reason for the near fall at...

Christ 🥴

Have seen another angle going into the last and possibly something has already "gone" which might explain why his back end almost...

I worked in racing for many years. I loved it. I had no real Interest in racing when I started but needed some extra money for my own...

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...

I wonder what the vets who were there will think about the state of the horse after the incident as it carried on after, and what they...

Yes although I chopped off their name as it wasn’t meant to be about them personally but that there need to be higher standards enforced...

I broke my hand once out hunting, it was in pieces, and the only reason I knew something was wrong was I couldn’t pull the reins. When I...

I follow a lot of racing SM posts and I can say that only Bonny and a very few deranged punters think there was nothing wrong in what...

The value of a racehorse is only what it may win or breed The value of a hack is immeasurable joy it may give to its rider

To me that is a fall, its a splat, if that happened to a horse i was working with i would immediately immobilize it to evaluate if it...

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...

This! The leap from describing condemning whipping a seriously injured horse to the line after he went down with his back end as...

I could be wrong as I have not studied data but my impression is eventing is better than this. I cannot believe any event rider would...

If the only two options are treating them as tools with which to earn money and fame, or not riding them at all, then yes, I agree, we...