Caledonia
Well-Known Member
Well, I can say that I have spent 20+ years watching show jumping. That probably equates to thousands of hours worth of sport. I can count on one hand the number of horses I have seen suffer fatal injuries (Sir Arkay, GG Barock, Pikap, and Hickstead). More horses than that died during the last Cheltenham Festival. Go figure!!
Now here's the difference, EVERY race is filmed, and archived.
However, you haven't watched these fifty racehorses die, have you? You've lifted that as a stat from a site. So by that token, your argument about watching show jumping is irrelevant, because you don't know what happened in the thousands of rounds that you have never seen, and will never see, because there is no record.