I saw that yeah, I don't know if it was anything to do with it but I do know in the race after one of the ITV hosts found a broken horse-shoe in front of a jump fence. I have no idea if any of these things are connected but it does seem oddly coincidental.
Six horses die at the Cheltenham Festival - Should Horseracing be banned?
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Something obviously wasn’t right with it and it’s hard not to connect it to the problems it was having pre-race. They were all praising how calm it was too.
Very strange for sure
Maybe it is a good idea to stop putting horses in situations where they face a higher risk of injuries, like unnecessarily jumping over things at high speed.
Ban Show Jumping as well.
Equestrian in general pointless, poor horses don't want to be dancing.
Equestrian in general pointless, poor horses don't want to be dancing.
Absolutely nothing to do with it . Replacing a shoe doesn't lead to breaking a leg ten mins later .
It took a jump and unfortunately missed his step and landed badly . The incidents had nothing to do with each other
Depends if it was put on right doesn’t it?
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If 1 in 475 school children were going to die due to horrific injuries in a non-optional sporting event, & many more would be injured to life-altering levels, I'm pretty sure we'd not be saying "oh it's just a small number, peasant. Don't get so sentimental."
I think if he really cares about these animals he'd consider 202 unnecessary deaths 202 too many.
Horses have run without shoes and this isn't a rare event for a horse to lose its shoe before a race .
Look what happened is tragic and yes it's cruel I felt sick all day after it and no I didn't have money on it .
However to suggest it's the fault of the guy who reshoed it or the owners for letting the horse continue to run is unfair
The horse was checked and it's just a sad accident
I’m not saying it was that guys fault. It’s not his choice if the horse should run but clearly something wasn’t right. I can’t believe it was a coincidence that it should break the same leg. It was an obviously an accident and I’m sure all involved regret racing it.
I’m not saying it should be banned by the way but I can see why people would.
I have heard he hurt his leg last week but I can't believe he would have passed all the checks if he had had a problem before today and after his shoe was fixed
Not at a meeting like Cheltenham at least
Sorry what? I must have missed the /s
If the races are banned... then perhaps most of these horses will be killed. These are not wild horses, they were bred for a specific purpose. They are expensive to maintain.
If they weren't racing they wouldn't be breaking their legs.
Racehorses are bred to race nothing else
Sure, they are bred to race but many of those bred to race don’t always end up racing. Some go on to Polo, Showing, Dressage and Eventing. Some are just used for breeding and general horse riding by people.
That's a very small percentage when you look at the numbers. Not to mention that these animals are treated better than fecking humans.
Meh... Brexit... Potential food shortages... Bring on the steak tartare it's a win win
That may be because he is counting all of the runners in the flat races too. If he counted just the hurdles races, which are the main cause of injuries/deaths, the stats might look quite different.
They also state that 1 in 35 horses who start the season will be dead by the end of it.
All animal based sports to be banned.
So.... stop breeding them to race? Human beings were once bred for specific reasons too. It's not an argument. They weren't put here on this planet for that reason, we decided that they should fit that role.
So its like a pony hunger games then
You have to be a veggie to think animals dying for entertainment is cruel? Not sure that argument has legs
I'd say to people who are appalled by this should make it known that they wont give there money to a bookmaker who participates in horse racing. The best way to make change is to hurt the people making money out of it in their pocket.
Yeah that's not what he's saying
There would be racing even if there were no bookies taking bets on it. Many countries do not permit gambling but have a sizeable racing industry.
Bookies in this country now make much of their profits from other forms of betting such as football and casino style gambling machines.
He's saying, so what, a bit of collateral damage, it comes with the territory, deal with it.
And do what with them?
Tory austerity has literally killed tens of thousands of people.
What's that got to do with horse racing?
