Sorry Palladion, no rudeness was intended. But your post did seem to me to imply (as did one or two others) that racing should be banned. I can't quote figures but I understand horses fall and are killed running flat races too. I'm absolutely no way applauding the death of horses and in my opening post I described such deaths as horrendous.
But I think we have to accept that falls and occasional deaths are inevitably part of racing - it's not intended to be anodyne, it's meant to be exciting. F1 drivers sometimes kill themselves but we don't ban that as a sport. And for those who want to do something positive about equine cruelty, try supporting those organisations which campaign against the gross overloading and overworking of donkeys in the Middle East - now there really is cruelty for you.
Tony.
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