Parrotperson
Well-Known Member
it needs to stop now
also a quick decision about pts of injured horses would never have anything to do with the fact they need to clear the course for the next race, would it?
some of those jockeys are appalling riders, and the likes of gordon elliot will bring the castle tumbling down in the end
to send out the best and fittest horses in races and 4 die is proof enough and all taking part from grooms to vets should examine their part in enabling this barbarism to continue
Absolutely no. They will wave the field round a fence if they're treating horse or jockey. And the next race is delayed (or even cancelled as happened last week when an amateur rider was badly injured and they carted him off to hospital in an air ambulance so they cancelled the next race) until the situation has been resolved. I've seen delays of over an hour if the vets are treating a horse. They tell the stewards what to do. the stewards don't say "sorry shoot it we need to carry on racing".