npage123
Well-Known Member
They've started talking about the Grand National in the media and I'm sure for those working in the horse-racing industry, they're probably already counting the days to the big race.
I personally have stopped watching the Grand National because I've seen a view too many poor horses breaking their legs (not only in that particular race). I'm more interested in seeing the walking up before-hand and how they treat the horses afterwards.
To be honest, I don't know much about racing at all, but feel that the horses become exhausted fairly early on in the race, but regardless of that, the organisers put in some jumps that are just too enormous, and I think there's no need to ask an already exhausted horse to jump every one of those big ones till the very end.
Are there people that maybe work with National Hunt horses who feel that it's necessary to have the jumps to such a high degree of difficulty, in order to really separate the wheat from the chaff? Is it really necessary to have the jumps so massively big in order to determine which horse should be crowned the winner?
I personally have stopped watching the Grand National because I've seen a view too many poor horses breaking their legs (not only in that particular race). I'm more interested in seeing the walking up before-hand and how they treat the horses afterwards.
To be honest, I don't know much about racing at all, but feel that the horses become exhausted fairly early on in the race, but regardless of that, the organisers put in some jumps that are just too enormous, and I think there's no need to ask an already exhausted horse to jump every one of those big ones till the very end.
Are there people that maybe work with National Hunt horses who feel that it's necessary to have the jumps to such a high degree of difficulty, in order to really separate the wheat from the chaff? Is it really necessary to have the jumps so massively big in order to determine which horse should be crowned the winner?