Anyone watching the Grand National?

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Just put it on to see protesters being dragged off the track. Feel bad for the horses in the ring, it looks warm and there's so many people about.

So you wouldn't mind being thrashed with a padded whip then?

Activists achieved nothing I assume?

Yes, racing horses hard on the hottest day of the year so far, and watch the morons try to blame the protesters for any injuries and fatalities.

Activists on the M57 too.

Great - we agree each other are twats

There seems to be a very common theme of hypocrisy amongst modern protesters.

Absolutely fuck all. Would never have guessed 🙄

We always have a flutter, always have from being a child, think we got second and third, mine fell grr! It's tame compared to how it used to be, the fences were lowered years ago.

All they managed to do was stress out a load of horses

What do you suggest they do then? The first thing that needs to happen is a raising of awareness surely? Making the horses wait to race is not ideal but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the rest of their shitty lives.

You're happy that a horse died? Fuck me, that's horrific.

I do wonder how long horse racing would last if the same amount of riders died as horses.

A horse died?

Depends on the discipline but racing is the worst culprit for starting horses way too young and keeping them in unnatural management regimes. There is then the issue of the thousands of unwanted ex-racers every year and what happens to them. Only a tiny % are re-trained and re-homed so what happens to the rest? Shipped off to the continent as live exports 😡😡😡
Racing needs to have a long hard look at itself but it won't while ££ is king.

Of all the animals killed in this country, what percentage are racehorses?

Not at all - they are part of a growing momentum. The ban on fox hunting and other ‘sports’ involving animal cruelty came after many, many years of activism remember. Hopefully the same thing will happen in time here too.

They are raising awareness. The first necessary step before any kind of change.

Hope not but just said the green screens were for the jockey.

What "change"? Banning horse racing? Never going to happen.

Why does that matter? Just because other things are cruel, doesn't mean you can't care about this too.

Raising awareness to millions of racing fans that there is an issue.

Lots of people will disagree with them but they will know it’s controversial. Some will decide that it’s no longer something they want to support.

If a sport or activity risks losing social licence it is more likely to take a look at itself and make changes. This has already happened in racing with safer course design, stricter rules about whips etc.

Did you see how much whipping went in towards the end 😞 oh but they love it

The fox hunters thought that too - it generated too much money and was too much part of the rural way of life. Now look at it.

Yes there is way more cruel things going on with animals. Farming is mostly cruel, especially pigs and chickens. But this is high profile, that's why they're there

So I suppose the protesters spend the other 364 days of the year protesting outside abattoirs, butchers shops, fish and chip shops, McDonalds and the like? They don't just protest the Grand National because it's high profile and gets them lots of twitter likes?