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No BlueHammer85, I don't think you've turned into a 'lefty woke'. I love my horse racing, yet don't really care for the Grand National. My issue is with people spouting out that it's cruel and horses are forcibly whipped to compete. The Grand National is without doubt a challenging event, but...

You paint a picture that the fate of all race horses is to race and then die on the race course racing for our entertainment. The official figures are 0.2/0.3% of all races......jumps, flat and AW. Is there an element of physicality, absolutely there is, but there is also the same in running a...

Spot on Grassland. Remove any challenge and competition from life and still have an entitlement to the rewards. I have no problem with improvement in safety, it's a requirement, but it's not possible to have a clinical, totally safe sport. Improvements have been made in motor sport and...

Heartless.

Why didn't you just pick it up and take it out, sort of, "here kitty, kitty!" style..........then use the hockey stick? :) It's a beautiful evening, isn't it? Same tomorrow, but make the most of it, rain and sleet forecast for next week apparently.

At the cottage? Pop down, rifle or shotgun, your choice. ☺ Missus down in Hamilton for a lacrosse game, lay out on the deck enjoying the beautiful evening, getting dark, music playing loud and not a fucking miserable mosquito in sight!!! Awesome!!!!

While I commend you on taking a stance on perceived cruelty in horse racing, albeit from what I consider a naïve perspective. What I don't quite understand is that while you appear to be very engaged with stopping animal cruelty, why are you not out confronting the numerous dog fighting events...

It's not the fences per se, steeplechase 'regulation' fences are not as big, with hurdles being smaller still and the flat has no fences at all, yet none are immune to fatalities. An awful lot has been done in racing, not just the Grand National, to make it safer by relocating fences, making...

I can see your point of view Worsleyweb and although I love jumps racing, any fatalities are always a downer for me. I'd go back to the question I put earlier, 10 years living a pretty good life, compared to not being born at all. Although I like jumps racing, I'm actually not that enamored...

Are those just 'on racecourse' fatalities, or race horses overall. When you watched the race today, how many horses refused to start? This year how many refused to jump a fence? Don't tell me that horses are made to jump a fence, because if they don't want to, they won't. That's why the...

That's your choice and although I would disagree with your particular choice, it wouldn't be mine. I don't see where my arguments are 'straw man', but perhaps you could elaborate as it appears to be your main line of defence.

While I would wholeheartedly agree with you regarding Gordon Elliot and that photograph, there is no evidence at all to suggest that his horses do not get the very best care available. I have no problem with you having an opinion on horse racing, but at least have some factual base to argue...

I was expecting a response like that. You are quite correct, humans do choose. These horses wouldn't get the opportunity enjoy life at all if it wasn't for racing, so I'd be interested to know what your answer would be to this question. What would your choice be if you were offered the option...

But it's not a straw man argument is it, it's a reality. I can't say that horse racing is perfect (I'm only considering UK racing here), but great efforts have been made to make it safer. Perhaps you should ask Corach Rambler if he enjoys being alive, because without racing he wouldn't have...

I put it down to the quality of my English blood, much different to this diluted Canadian stuff. I was bitten by a horse fly and my arm looked like a big angry red balloon, but thankfully they're not really an issue here. Mosquitoes on the other hand.............bastards!!!!!! They'll love...

It does work, but then you stink of vinegar. They ruin beautiful summer evenings here and always take a shine to me. I don't suffer as badly as I first did, but I still get the itching from many of them. After Bite is my go too.......there are tubes out on the deck, in the garage, in the...

If you'd followed the thread, you'd realize that I am certainly not a hunt supporter, but I do have an understanding of it.

No, no, no.........I seem to be bothering the anti-foxhunters.

Fishing!! You mean dragging those defenceless little fish out of the water by a hook in their mouth. Shame on you! :)

OK Sonny, it's quite apparent that you have never been near a hunt and only know what you do from social media etc, which of course as we all know, is accurate and perfectly true. You have a very emotional, ill-informed vision of a gang of riders screaming hysterically and frothing at the mouth...