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 British Horseracing Authority (BHA) recently announced a change in the use of the …
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 steps. Of course, it is the English language. English speakers shouldn’t forget that …
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 near exhaustion. Dr. Desmond Morris provides his reasons as to why horses race. …
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. For example, the great Classic race, the Derby, was run in record time …
NEWS AND COMMENT-TASMANIA: The news is that PETA is using the Australian state of Tasmania to establish that whipping a horse during a race is a form of animal cruelty and should be banned. It seems that they’ve chosen Tasmania because they have good animal …
Dr Desmond Morris says that when a racehorse loses a race the trainer and the jockey have to find fancy reasons as to why it happened other than the fact that the horse is not a fast runner in order to ensure that the horse’s …
We can start the answer by checking out the Guinness World Record which is 43.97 mph (70.76 km/h) over 2 furlongs. The horse was a thoroughbred racehorse named Winning Brew, a two-year-old filly. The world record occurred at the Penn National Racecourse, Grant Bill, Pennsylvania, …
