Agggggggggggggggghhh I can't watch!!!!

Have the TV on but only sneaking the occasional peek. Never know how I feel about it. People I know had a horse killed at Aintree yesterday.
 
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Have the TV on but only sneaking the occasional peek. Never know how I feel about it. People I know had a horse killed at Aintree yesterday.

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Which horse died yesterday?
 
They all looked okay - I managed to force myself to watch! All the horses I saw fall seemed to all get up
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In the high grass (or something like that) and another...both looked instant though as horses didnt even twitch after falls.

Having looked back at the GN fallers today all seemed to get up after the falls - not so sure about the jockeys though!
 
I haven't watched it now for a few years, I get so upset when they fall, getting soft in my old age, I think its barbarick (sp) and all in the name of money
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Bloody hell. I refuse to watch it for the very reason a horse is killed almost every single year at this horrific race. Looks like this year is no different. Another horses life totally wasted.
 
tell me about it,..

I studied it at college, `the ethics of horse racing` i.e EIPH (Exercised induced pulmonary hemmoraging - if ive spelt that right!), druggings, theft, gambling, insurance claims, age of racing, the amount going in and coming out of racers, which led to the slaughter of horses...

The amount of videos I had to watch, one of the most disturbing:

Three falling at a fence, all got up, and then the one in the back snapped his leg below his stifle..it was just swinging,..

...the horse slaughter was the worst,..thats the day I became a veggie

I got an A for the project though!

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But....if they weren't there racing, they wouldn't be around at all. It's a bit like farm animals, if people don't eat them, then nobody would bother keeping them.

Also think these are the top end of the game racers. They will probably have a good retirement. The horses doing the low-budget stuff have a much harder time when they stop racing.
 
Ilove watching the National - always have. And Id give anything for a chance to jump round the track. Got to walk it 2years as McCain was training a horse my neighbour bred and I went over with them.

Its obviously not nice to see horses die at any races - but every track has its problems from time to time. Rememeber Cheltenham '06, Wincanton '06, Sedgefield is under investigation too and well, dirt tracks have very high incidences of breakdowns. It happens in every equine discipline though incidence seems to increase with increasd intensity of the discipline.
Someone (possibly in another post?) said, that fewer horses die eventing and/or fewer sustain serious injuries that are life or career threatening. I would suggest that if a study were to be conducted on percentages of horses destroyed/fatally injured or sustaining chronic injuries during eventing training or competition - there would not be a massive difference between thepercentage that die/injured eventing and racing. Its public perception that skews things up.
 
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