fatalities at aintree

agreed

How many today, please ?

Been watching ATR. What did he say, please?

what has he said ??
there was a race on the other side

3, 4 in total.

Sorry to hear that, thanks.

to paraphrase

..in this game it happens. Its dreadful, it hurts and nothing he could say will make it better for connections. Equally, nothing he could say will stop the potential happening again.

also said iff u make the devils pact u have to expect these things.

Thanks, Facts.

Bet no-one has ever trotted out those lines before, ffs.

i'm sure graham would be the first to acknowledge, that nothing he was saying could be considered profound !

I think he's pretty sensible but it's waving the white flag a bit.

We should do something about it - not by ruining the game, but by tweaking the conditions / obstacles to minimise (you can't totally eradicate the dangers) the problems that have resulted in too many deaths today.

For example ?

Some scenes in Ireland recently and Aintree today do make one question whether jump racing is a justifiable sport, imho.

1. Don't let amateurs / unqualified pilots ride the course
2. Maintain a slow-ish surface on the National course (sorry if you own a fast ground horse)
3. Sort the fences out so that horses / jockeys pay more respect

That's top of my head. I am sure there are more / better ones.

Many of those who would have been calling for jump racing to be abolished on the grounds of horse welfare are now too occupied in saving the planet.

Fences have already been significantly modified

Facts - they've been modified so that jockey's treat them like any other fence. They aren't.

Let's turn it into a flat race on carpet - oh why we're at it let's not use horses anymore but race round at 8 mph on mobilty scooters (with crash helmets of course).

Bi
tbf - I don't think they do.
We've had all this before - and some years are worse than others. I agree its usually when the track is riding on the fast side of good.

They should find a way to have horses racing without having obstacles to jump.

Facts - they've been modified so that jockey's treat them like any other fence. They aren't.

Thats the same at cheltenham they been softened up too much

I can't think of many other sports that you can virtually guarantee some of the participants (animals) will perish. Their skeletons are not strong enough to take the pressure of falling or pounding the ground during and after the effort of jumping a fence/hurdle. No amount of modification will change that fact.

Good grief

They are destroyed because their bones dont nip together like a humans

are these horses covered by insurance whilst racing?