I love Jump Racing But If It Was Banned Tomorrow I Would Not Miss It...

If you've been loving jump racing all your life Acey, then you will miss it definitely. We all hate to see horses getting killed and yes it's sickening, but racehorses as you well know have a great life and most wouldn't have been born if not for racing.

Every genuinely lover of the sport hates that side of the game.

Is there anything worse than a fall, a fall at speed or a horse that goes wrong....ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I still gasp when it happens.

Is it the best sport in the world....NO QUESTION.

Geuine sadness for all connected.....only problem is most like me will be backing something in the next. We move on.

More attention seeking from Acey.
Nobody likes to see fatalities

I think it's the death knell for Kempton.

Hardly the tracks fault smoky

uptheirons10 Jan 26 15:04Joined: 01 Apr 25 | Topic/replies: 5,594 | Blogger: uptheirons's blog
More attention seeking from Acey.
Nobody likes to see fatalities

So i put my opinion up and i am attention seeking?..Are you for real pal?

Horses die in flat racing also and running around a field. Thoroughbreds have a relatively weak

canon bone and a bad step or fall can be fatal. But think of the 10's of thousands of horses in

training that wouldn't have been born but for racing. What's better: a life of luxury with the risk

of injury or no life at all?

Hardly Attention seeking  Irons, just stating how he feels, I feel the same tbh.

Thanhs Glasgow.

You clearly don't love it acey - you've moaned enough on here about how you can't win at it.

No one likes seeing horses hurt, but if you are a long term punter you have to accept it will happen.

Not the point.  It would he rather perverse to accentuate the positives after today, and they want to sell this to a younger crowd?

I know one thing, tha atmosphere at kempton now will be totally ****.

Thats cause Acey the old Fart is lying loser. Done his nuts again on a Nag.
Stick to your losing Tennis tips

doesnt sound like it in background at kemp all very happy ,loud ,nothing to see next ,as lucky/jacobs  even mentioned it ?

Everyone who follows and punts on the sport are drowning in hypocrisy….myself included….

Two dead on course,how many are searching the boards for a price in the next…..

but that,s what the sports mouthpieces lydia,lucky,oily etc want yoiu to do move on from dead horses and dont be bashful about supporting the betting,drinking you can be doing

That is my point.

It in incredibly sad when it happens...

What happens 30-35 mins later......we all go again.

If we couldn't take what we saw we would collectively never come back to the sport.....BUT WE DO.

My money says Acey will be starting threads in March like a coke head on a winning streak.

IT IS AWFUL BUT GET A FECKIN GRIP

Simple truth is that we (punters) only watch and bet on this sport - we don't produce or present the sport and the risks, others do that every day as their profession.

But, we do have to recognise that we are a (small) part of it, and stop pretending that we would reduce all risks in this sport, if we want to keep on betting on it.

I agree with the OP. However, I don't love it compared to flat racing and my stakes are at best 20% on the jumps compared with the flat. It keeps me occupied in the winter months but if it went I wouldn't miss it. Too many injuries for horses and riders.

Is a horse fall over jumps worse than a horse fall on the flat then?

...and by that I do not mean likelihood, or anything visual.

Newmarket should not bet at all on NH Racing with his total lack of knowledge.
Horses die every day whilst loose in the fields

Sad as it is we have to accept it is part and parcel of the sport we love.

If you really feel so strongly about seeing such injuries happen, then the question has to indeed be why do you continue to watch and/or bet on jumps races, why not just stick to events that you find more palatable ?

Dixie nails it

See you in March acey

If we are supposed to feel somehow guilty, what of those who actually run and create this sport?

The trainers, jocks, media presenters, racecourses etc etc.

People die every day in road accidents.
Should we ban cars?

Anyone who feels strongly about fatalities walk away……

Don’t turn up tomorrow looking for a price…..

uptheirons 10 Jan 26 16:30 
People die every day in road accidents.
Should we ban cars?

What a dreadful post….

Pony…..

No sign of any bets from you Aceform

I going steady until March……Cheltenham then the flat….

uptheirons 10 Jan 26 16:30 
People die every day in road accidents.
Should we ban cars?


Nailed it imo....could not agree more

Aceform battered more than Harry Ramsden's Cod

People die in cars obviously they wont ban cars BUT I`d have a guess that if Jockeys died at the same rate as horses they would ban racing!

A ludicrous comparison,Kiddy as they don't

Of course its ludicrous. I agree! Just saying that car accidents would never cause a car ban but excessive Jockey deaths probably would.

Who knows in the "Blame Culture" society we live in

I don't get why people are having a go at acey for saying he would not miss NH racing? I doubt I would miss it much either or even the flat and seeing horses injured and killed is one reason even though I am a realist and won't give up betting because of it. It always seems there is outrage when a well known horse is killed e.g Alverton, Dawn Run , One Man , French Holly and Yorkshire Terrier.

All in different circumstances and reasons but people were affected in all cases and imo had their views of the sport altered even if they never actually walked away from the game as a result. Dawn Run died because of greed, French Holly on the gallops and Yorkshire Terrier in a 5 furlong Nursery where I benefitted backing the winner. I said to Foyles on the day that I would gladly give up any winnings if I could turn the clock back and the horse would be ok.

I backed Kalif today as I did when he fell in his first chase at Carlisle, loads blaming the jockey as usual but 500kg of living flesh is going to do what it wants despite what the jockey is trying to communicate in certain circumstances.

I will still go racing and bet but like acey, would not miss it if it was taken away. Having lost a couple through injury just running around a field it is one of the reasons myself and my wife will not go back into owning even part of a horse, just too much emotion involved. Maybe as acey alludes, getting older could be a factor, different outlook and don't forget acey worked around racehorses so is not a novice like some on here!!

People are free to indulge in NH Racing or walk away

The buzz is the answer to all tbh……like i say fatality one race and punter searching the boards for a price half an hour later…..

45 years I’ve witnessed it,never changes…..

Does anyone on here know a person who has walked away from the game because they witnessed a fatal fall….?

As I said earlier form - if we were considered hypocrites for betting, then surely people such as trainers or jockeys are far bigger ones. They may shed tears but continue to use this as their profession each day.

Exactly stu,and moderate horses receive crocodile tears or no tears,apart from the young females who are sincere towards their horse…

didnt the potters sell al, thier horses giving injuries/deaths as part of the reason, and as usual irons missing the point completely,if you dont like it walk away, the horse dont get that choice,
to quote the sports chief tv cheer leaders chamberpot and lukey and they thought they were defending it and the words were doing the game a favour like a heavyweight boxing match

THIS SPORT IS BRUTAL AND FALLS, DEATHS ARE  PART AND PARCEL OF IT 
oily bell and the lady on this morning trying to sell the sport didnt use those words,they banged on about speed dating and getting pished

not potters the elliot dispersale horses

1st time thinker is Thicker than an elephant's trunk.
Not content with wrongly criticising Cobden for KDB's fall where his stupidity beggared belief he carries on regardless.
As I asked you earlier,how could Cobden or any other jockey who has ever ridden prevent the horse taking off too early.
I await your "knowledgeable response

Always very sad when a loved animal dies.
The difference with race horse casualties is that they lose their lives forced to do something to give us pleasure.

And enough of the "they live in luxury" b@llsh@t

as he,s now used against multiple posters and it really isnt very funny, IRONS can have this one for free, its far  far funnier and if nothing else at least its a change as its his fav put down he needs  a few in the back of the book

    THICKER THAN A DOCKERS SANDWICH

AS THICK AS MINCE

   AS DIM AS THE TOC H LAMP

1st time poster • January 10, 2026 2:50 PM GMT
took of to early
thats what they pay  a jock 200 quid a ride to prevent,not just to sit there and go ooooops,what happened there

You utterly clueless cretin,1st time thinker

"Thick as mince".
The irony

acey deucy 10 Jan 26 14:57 
Maybe its an age thing but i am done with seeing brave Horses losing there lifes.

ffs was this written by an illiterate 8yr old?

Perhaps Acey might have taken lessons in grammar from 1st time thinker

Say's rico the man that thinks Madeleine McCann's parents were responsible for getting rid of her body ysdc.

rico doesnt think daft lad.

stick to what ewe know about the case..absolutely fk all.

Let's not go OT yet again on here, maybe?

I work in a industry where over 20 people DIE every day.
Hundreds more injured every day.
People live & die for no reason.
Animals the same.
We gamble on horses WINNING not dying.

It was dreadful. The visual will remain with me for a while. Maybe a delay in tv transmission could be adopted; the tv pictures are several seconds late.

But, I've virtually stopped punting. I'm still watching though. If only greyhound tracks were still available in London eg White City, Harrigay, Walthamstow, Wembley or Wimbledon. I'd go greyhound racing regularly given I'm a pensioner now.

If only you stopped posting,Implausible

Perhaps you might consider taking up knitting if that is not too stressful for you

Once heard Ruby summit up as its sad but outside the back door, and that gives the issue a lot more perspective.

If only people could see the amount of abandoned dogs/cats that are put to sleep every month after being admitted to an animal shelter,would they then call for the abolition of keeping dogs or cats as pets.
They cant keep them all that cant be rehomed.

Have you watched how they put them to sleep in parts of Aussie land ? I was hoping the weapon would backfire on the beast….

Beast,and certainly not speaking about the horse…

very hard to watch at times, but no horse is intentionally sent out to not come back


meanwhile in Spain, Portugal and some South American countries....

Indeed, other countries far worse approach to animals than UK....

Do camels ever keel-over in a S Arabia camel race? I heard it's a delicacy in the Middle Eastern countries similar to horse meat in France and doggie meat in Korea.

The concepts of animal welfare or RSPCA care in many other countries would quite literally be completely alien to them...

Freddie Gordon and Summer in Milan on the deck at Fontwell.

Very similar to Wartpol’s fall. Horse looks dead. Was twitching.

Such a sad sight......its heartbreaking

acey deucy 10 Jan 26 14:57 
Maybe its an age thing but i am done with seeing brave Horses losing there lifes.

thicker than Gemma Collins ankles  #wac

Jan 11, 2026 -- 3:35PM, STEO wrote:

Freddie Gordon and Summer in Milan on the deck at Fontwell. Very similar to Wartpol’s fall. Horse looks dead. Was twitching.

Confirmed......the horse bought the farm.

Are we going to have to endure every horse fatality with suitable hand wringing on here?
Nobody likes to see it but it is inevitable in NH Racing.

No harm in naming the fallen, Irons.

Probably right,brandy but is there any need for posters to talk of writhing on the floor?
Grief Mania imo

Cruel cruel sport,know one knows the pain they feel when you see them paying the ultimate…..

Unfortunately hypocrisy rules…..

Cash/greed…..

ITV were desperate on Saturday especially the Alice women giggling away…..

Dreadful scenes…

Give it a rest you bleating,losing Sweatie

Lol ……harsh tbh….

LOVE THE FLAT CANT STAND JUMP RACING

To be frank, bit by bit, I’m starting to lose interest in Racing, full stop.  It is on its way imo out and the nonsensical trash and mush we keep getting shovelled at us by Chamberlin’s is an ingredient in that.  Last week, the day after Ian Balding passed, Andrew had a run-of-the-mill winner and he came out with the most sycophantic pyysh, as if to convince us that fate had given him that winner on this day!  And this Love Actually choite,……..Add in the sharp practices of trainers and jockeys in an era with more visual televising and recording evidence than ever and the attraction begins to erode away.