I mean when a horse dies at the first hurdle it’s hard not to think they might have a point

    Have to agree. Those horses are just being used and despatched for the fun of toffs.
    I used to love the national but just find it a bit sick nowadays.

    I’d rather watch rhouses and smallman getting bullwhipped and rode around like in Deliverance.
    Not cruel at all.and a great sport.

    benson I’m in agreement - it’s pitiful that everyone involved in horse racing is parroting the same shit.

        I know what, let’s ban absolutely everything that’s fun.

          I’ve been campaigning for years for the jockeys to have a sharp piece of metal added to the end of their whip and also for them to wear those wild west-esque heel-spurs.

          Id also be open to them sporting both whilst riding the horses as well.

          Would be more interesting if they had to put the jockey down with the horse. Nothing gruesome, no public hanging or anything, just behind the screens with a bolt gun, like the horse.

          Is there a pointless, shitty left-wing bandwagon Amps won’t jump on nowadays?

          Amps won’t rest till every single Tory is dead.

          Take the jeopardy of death out of the national and you’re left with is somthing approximating mortorsport, which is shit.