Off Topic Grand National

How do you know I'm not her?!

 

You do have a point
I wish I hadn't text Trump the other day calling him a big wuss now!

 

...and violin bow strings

 

There's a few jockeys I would happily shoot. Greville ****ing starkey

 

And how would I get my antique sofa re-stuffed?

 

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What helps pay for their retirement?

 

Did someone say you was?

 

I quite enjoy a flutter on the horses.

I'm okay with us going right back to nature though, as we could still put bets on which one gets eaten by the wolves or bears.

 

Barbaric race that should be banned but it wont because mugs like you lot insist on having a bet as you foolishly think potentially winning £100 would improve your increasingly futile existence.

 

An interesting read that offers a few facts that can be considered.

Some horses jump without a rider, some don't.

Do you believe a horse enjoys being ridden and racing? (With it's inherent risks)

You made a remark on the Grand National thread, why are you being so precious because you were questioned about it?

 

I think it was Martin Clunes that did an interesting series about horses, looking at their selective breeding right from the very early days when man first started to utilise animals.

Part of that looked at horse racing, and the argument was that the horses ran quickly and this was completely natural.

In nature, the slowest in a running herd was generally the target of predators, and anything on the horses back was trying to eat it. There only real defence from predators is to leg it.

I think it was someone on here that described horse racing as looking like a load of midgets trying to pull the heads off horses.

 

That is as daft as vegetarians who miss the point that if everyone else stopped eating neat a lot of those animals wouldn't be happily frolicking in the fields as there would be no need for them. Even worse if we went vegan as there would be no need for milk producing ones either.
As Fez said, who would feed them, water them and look after them. Unless you see horses, along with cows, sheep, Bull etc wandering freely and happily coexisting with people on the motorways, in shopping centres, in the middle of cities, on housing estates...

The barbaric sport of bullfighting is a completely different thing, as anyone with a bit of sense would know and belongs in the same group of objectionable pastimes as fox hunting, hare coursing etc...

 

Same as now
Some paid by owners that used to race them, some get taken by people who like to keep horses but don't want to ride them

 

Not sure why you think I'm precious about it
I've given my opinion on whether I'll be betting on it or not
I won't

If you ask me a question I'll usually answer it, unless it's boring

 

What's your view on setting limits on the size of fences? (Which is the thing I did suggest)

 

Went to the races today in Sydney to watch the best mare in the world win her 17th consecutive race. Odds of 10-1 0n. The next race the Group 1 Sydney Cup saw a bad fall of 2 horses causing the race to be stopped. Jockeys were only slightly injured but 1 horse was put down and the future of the other is in doubt.

Death is around me at the moment. Yesterday on my daily walk I was hailed by a cyclist who had noticed the prone body of one of my neighbours motionless on his roof as he rode by. Climbing up we found him deceased.
Often spoke to him on my walks. He was in his late sixties.

 

If you knew some of the stuff I had imagined , you will be really glad that you aren't