Two dead at Aintree already and we haven’t had the main event

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Horrible pictures of the horse with the broken back and now another one has gone. Both put down. Stop this barbaric sport

Fucking barbaric arseholes and so are the people betting and encouraging it.

As someone who used to exercise racehorses when an enthusiastic teen and young adult I firmly believe jump racing ought to be banned. Flat races are less lethal. The jump racing is just hideous.

Agree. How anyone can justify these beautiful creatures dying just for people’s enjoyment is beyond me.

Your DH sounds like he was a gentleman we need men like him.
I’m genuinely sorry he’s not here with you.

I never liked the sport. And its shouldn't be a sport at all. It's goes to dog racing aswel. I despise it.

Did the jockey win money for winning the race? Surely he won't be allowed to keep it!

(Or was this not the main money-winning race? I have never seen any horse racing and know nothing about the GN)

You bet. They die https://www.horsedeathwatch.com.

Intersting thing this year. First year I have seen the Beeb actually mention the deaths as part of the coverage

I think it’s valid. The post isn’t saying one makes the other acceptable, it’s saying that racing gets a spotlight, especially at this time of year, whereas things like factory farming are cruel each and every day but rarely get this type of attention.

Can someone please explain just how a horse can have its back broken during a race? I'm assuming the jockey wasn't overweight

guessing it fell.

Thank you. That's appreciated.

Have you seen the size of the jumps?

Fucking disgusting.

Yes I have, but never heard of a horse breaking its back

But then I'm not horsey nor follow racing

You can also be against all of those things.

@godmum56 No. The horse did not fall. He misjudged the fence and landed very awkwardly. More like a sprawl. It’s extremely unusual for this to happen - usually a horse will have strained muscles after doing this. You see similar at three day eventing. The horse did not lose his jockey.

I have to say DH and me thought he was not moving well but assumed his muscles had been strained. I could not believe the eventual injury and it’s not a standard racing injury at all.

I absolutely love horse racing and I’m not apologizing for that. The horses are bred to do this job. They are far better cared for than many horses and there are risks for any competition horse when jumping. The sport is not going anywhere and the National today has had fallers but no problems afterwards.

No one is obliged to watch. Many people understand the risk - as mountaineers understand the risk and leave their families behind. No high value, high risk sport is without casualties and horses are not people. They are bred for this job and I’m still going racing after 60 years! We should celebrate what the horse can do. It’s just amazing.

It’s brutal and the horses have no say.
but hey, it’s fun to bet and put your fancy clothes on and have a day out !

I hate Horse Racing. Making rich, unscrupulous people ricer

I understand your last paragraph to mean that the horses give informed consent to this?

They do get attention from animal activists just as horse racing does.

Either way , But puppy farming is rank whataboutary and utterly pointless.
Horse are killed on race tracks week in week out and there is no publicity. Aintree is the only time it gets headlines.

It’s sad but it happens. We’ve had a horse killed during a race. Beautiful horse he was and all. It’s a sport. There bred for it.

How do you know what posters support and what they don’t?
You’re making a huge assumption based on your own opinion.

I also don’t understand why you think people shouldn’t fight for child sex trafficking and that it shouldn’t be banned, just because there are some people that use trafficked adults.

I can't imagine casually saying "Oh I had a horse killed for my entertainment once". Are you normally a sociopath?

@HoppityBun What animal gives consent to anything? They please us and consent to do so. However horses can, and do, refuse to run and jump - yes. You can take a horse to water etc. They won’t do anything if they don’t want to.

Indeed. Golden Dancer was observed to be galloping with a broken back. He wouldn’t have been doing that if he hadn’t been enjoying it, would he! And it’s not as though he needed to be whipped to do it, either.

You don’t like animals.
You have no empathy towards them.
Thats fine (I guess) but surely we don’t make rules built on people with no empathy.

(We did in the past as we had legal cock and dog fighting, slavery etc but that was because the world was ran by psychopathic men who lacked empathy).