This is a video and words from a tweet by Animal Welfare Watch. The words sum up the incident better than I can and I repeat them together with the video above. …
Racehorse trainer losses his temper and abuses a young horse at a racetrack Read More »
The sound track to this Twitter video is inappropriate which gives it a sick quality. Perhaps that is why it was added. To juxtapose the horror visuals and the music. Personally, I’d …
Time for horse racing to be banned like any other abusive animal exploitation Read More »
This article briefly touches on the change in rules regarding jockeys whipping their horse to speed them up. I also touch on whipping racehorses generally and its effectiveness. Change in rules The …
Jockeys whipping racehorses. Why? Change in rules (UK). Read More »
Remarkably the evolution of the word ‘jockey’ to identify a professional horse rider took just 4 major steps according to my source excluding the ancient source. And they are pretty clean, identifiable …
Infographic on ‘Why do we call professional riders jockeys?’ Read More »
It was hot, very hot at the Ascot races not long ago (30+ degrees Celsius). The horses were racing as usual. And somebody picked up the fact that one horse developed a …
Racehorse develops nosebleed (epistaxis) on scorching day at Ascot Read More »
What motivates a horse to run in a race? It’s unnatural for a racing horse to race. That sounds peculiar but it is unnatural for horses to gallop over long distances to …
NEWS AND COMMMENT, IRELAND: There is an interesting video on Twitter of a horse race at Punchestown on Saturday last in which Ted Walsh called a horse that refused to jump a …
Ted Walsh called a horse that refused a jump a “dirty rotten cowardly so and so” Read More »
It seems that the refinement of the racehorse through selective breeding has reached a ceiling because they are not getting any quicker. In fact, many of today’s records are 50 years old. …
