grand national

[Boro]

Who mentioned banning anything? I haven't!

That's another problem, if people don't like something they all get on the "Ban Wagon".

If an F1 driver dies on the circuit, they find out why and make it safer.

If a footballer dies of a heart attack on the pitch, they call for more heart screening.

You can make things safer without having to ban it.

In two the last 2 Grand Nationals, 4 horses have died!

They NEED to make it safer.

 

[Rock-climby-Dave]

Why do they NEED to make it safer?

so that those who do not watch or partake in the event in any way are not offended?

Dangerous things are often more exciting to both partake in and watch.

Why should the non-initiated start altering things for those that it is their hobby or passion?

 

[Boro]

Because of the word "Choice".

If you choose to take part in a dangerous sport, then you should know the risks and make a choice.

Horses don't choose to be flogged and ridden to death.

It's our responsibility as "intelligent" people to make the right decisions of behalf of these animals.

Horse racing happens every weekend, why does the Grand National need to be so extreme and dangerous?

If two horses died every time there was a horse race, it would be banned or made safer.

Just because it only happens once a year doesn't make it right!

 

[BaggyPants]

If you read the link I posted, you will see it is not just the Grand National. Over 800 horses have been killed in the last five years, which is one every two and a bit days. In comparison, only 9 horses died in road accidents in the the whole of 2010. There have been over twice that number killed in racing in the last month.

 

[Rock-climby-Dave]

Just done some quick reading and it appears that they HAVE made it safer - Google and Wikipedia are your friend.

and on choice:

153,583 Attended last years race

8.8 Million watched it on telly. (in the UK alone)

The vast majority of those people - if not all - chose to watch it

We are not aware as to whether the horses - 40 of them -chose to run or not.

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

I agree with you, Boro.

Killing a horse because it broke it's leg or fell over, or whatever is just wrong on so many levels and I would never under any circumstances have anything to do with it, or killing any other animal for any other reason, for that matter.

However, I get everyone else's point of view as well, cows, pigs, chickens etc are all bred for food so that we don't have to go out and hunt them, we've adapted as a species to make things easier for ourselves, it's just the natural course of things.

Horses are bred to be used for racing, riding and numerous other reasons, they aren't bred to live happy lives or produce another product, so once they become incapable of fulfilling their role, all they're doing is costing the owner money, so they put them down, which is horrifically cruel, horrible and unnecessary, they could donate the horse to a little girl who'd love a horse or something like that, it doesn't have to die because it broke its leg, legs can mend, it's truly ridiculous.

But as you say, money is the driving force, currency is everything and if anything is causing you to have negative cash flow, you're going to do something about it and killing a horse, unfortunately, is the most cost effective way of ending the negative cash flow.

 

[joshcowin]

Ed the problem with horses is that you cant recover a broken leg.and if you tried you would most likely get put inside as it causes more harm than good

 

[M_P]

That's the way I see it, if they just put horses down because it cost them money, surely something would be done about it.

As far as I see it, killing the horse would be the kindest thing to do as you cant fix a horses broken leg.

I don't think they would simply kill a horse without a good reason, there would be no point, unless it's the mot humane course of action to take.

Like dogs, you can't just have your dog put down because you don't want it anymore, there has to be a good enough reason.

 

[joshcowin]

Speaking of dogs just think of all the happy dogs after the grand national.pedigree are loving it.

 

[TPI]

i don`t get the joke?

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

Dog food is often made of horse meat, Craig lol. Pedigree is a dog food company.

 

[TPI]

oh i thought it was made out of cow meat hmm learn thing`s at night aswell it seem`s