Grand National

[Bostik Bailey]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/articles/c3v614gk1g4o

 

despicable actions here to flog a horse to death just so the billionaire bookies can keep fleecing the poor. In any other sport with this death rate for competitions there would be a massive outcry.

 

[graveyard johnny]

I started a thread on this a while ago if u can find it?

[JohnM]

When is it?

[Wolford6]

These horses are bred for it; they love to jump and race. Cruel? ... I don't think so. If you did away with jump racing and point-to-point racing, very few people would breed those beautiful horses. We'd be left with flat racing riding Arab horses. Nowadays, the population of Shire Horses is in severe decline ... probably the same for Clydesdales, Suffolk Punches and Cleveland Bays.These horses put a monumental effort into building our empire and the industrial revolution.

Most Greyounds and Hunting Hounds have to be put down when they age because they are not really suitable for homing in domestic properties. The Senedd is currently banning greyhound racing in Wales.

These horses and dogs have a fantastic life when they are alive. Not like the supermarket chickens that people munch every day. Male lambs probably live for a maximum of two years before butchery and male pigs  less than a year.  

When shooting birds was a pre-war feature of the moorland above my home village in Wales, gamekeepers shot crows, magpies and foxes. There was thus a large range of bird breeds across the valleys. Nowadays; just a huge proliferation of crows, magpies and red kites that are absolute killing machines. 

Incidentally, I have never been rabbiting, shooting or, as an adult, ridden a horse. I don't bet either.

Townie hypocrites should keep their sneck out of country pursuits.

 

Edited April 13 by Wolford6

[The Phantom Horseman]

On 11/04/2026 at 15:11, Bostik Bailey said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/articles/c3v614gk1g4o

 

despicable actions here to flog a horse to death just so the billionaire bookies can keep fleecing the poor. 

 

There should be no problem with people wanting to question welfare aspects of horseracing and indeed any sort of sport, but this sort of ridiculous, emotive claptrap reads like the poster has just half-read a headline in The Sun.