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Ridiculous horse racing...

  • 11-04-2015 09:56PM
    #1
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭


    Anyone else think http://www.express.co.uk/sport/horseracing/569858/Tragedy-on-Grand-National-Day-as-horse-Seedling-falls-at-hurdle-and-dies this **** is ridiculous? i dont know much about horse racing but i was watching it today and the only thing i could think of was this **** is retarded, one jocky got absoulely panned out cold after his horse took a tumble over one of many ridiculous 6ft high jumps,

    I wouldnt even call it a race because you dont win it you survive it! how they have favorites is beyond me, i dont mind racing asuch but surely certain races need to be rethought as they are just pure blaggarding and dangerous.

    Do the owners of the horses themselves not be annoyed when one of there horses gets killed? waste of a good horse on a dumb ass race..


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  • #2
    jamesoneill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭jamesoneill


    the whole horse racing thing is a mystery to me


    i don't get it


  • #3
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I gave up trying to understand it after gerry robbed shergars teeth...


  • #4
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    How many died this year?


  • #5
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    kneemos wrote: »
    How many died this year?

    0.


  • #6
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    jamesoneill wrote: »
    the whole horse racing thing is a mystery to me


    i don't get it

    A bunch of horses with little people on their backs run towards a finish line. First one there wins.


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  • #7
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    If there is even the slightest chance of people trying to enjoy themselves it should be banned


  • #8
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    They should make more interesting and give the jockeys swords and/or lances to knock off the other jockeys...then I'd watch it.


  • #9
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    All I could think of with the pic in that article....

    Horse; 'Oh look! A penny!'


  • #10
    jamesoneill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭jamesoneill


    Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »
    They should make more interesting and give the jockeys swords and/or lances to knock off the other jockeys...then I'd watch it.

    they should give the jockeys whips and let them bate the ****e out of the horses


  • #11
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,669 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Third year in a row now with no deaths.


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  • #12
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    evo2000 wrote: »
    I wouldnt even call it a race because you dont win it you survive it!

    It's basically bingo. It's an absurd spectacle. Every year horses die or get seriously hurt on one of those stupidly high hurdles.

    People lose their shit whenever there's a mention of bull-running or the like, and always seem happy to hear about someone getting gored or trodden on during it.

    I'd imagine you'd get flamed and banned rather quickly if you said you were glad to hear a jockey got killed during the National.


  • #13
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    My name is URL wrote: »
    It's basically bingo. It's an absurd spectacle. Every year horses die or get seriously hurt on one of those stupidly high hurdles.

    People lose their shit whenever there's a mention of bull-running or the like, and always seem happy to hear about someone getting gored or trodden on during it.

    I'd imagine you'd get flamed and banned rather quickly if you said you were glad to hear a jockey got killed during the National.

    Thats true double standards at its finest !

    To make it worse to go with the stupidly high hurdles the race is stupidly long!


  • #14
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    When multiple horses get killed in the race they complain...when 0 horse gets killed in the race 3 years in a row they still complain

    FFS


  • #15
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Horses are one of the best treated animals on the planet thanks to the horse racing industry.


  • #16
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    Specialun wrote: »
    When multiple horses get killed in the race they complain...when 0 horse gets killed in the race 3 years in a row they still complain

    FFS

    They were killed pointlessly tho the race itself is a joke, its stupidly long with stupidly high jumps, there needs to be a point where the courses just become ****in stupid.


  • #17
    jamesoneill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭jamesoneill


    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »
    Horses are one of the best treated animals on the planet thanks to the horse racing industry.

    tell that to shergar


  • #18
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    evo2000 wrote: »
    Thats true double standards at its finest !

    To make it worse to go with the stupidly high hurdles the race is stupidly long!

    Ah wtf

    Who would be glad if a horse died


  • #19
    Healio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,832 ✭✭✭Healio


    evo2000 wrote: »
    i dont know much about horse racing

    End of thread to be honest.


  • #20
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    evo2000 wrote: »

    I wouldnt even call it a race because you dont win it you survive it! how they have favorites is beyond me, i dont mind racing asuch but surely certain races need to be rethought as they are just pure blaggarding and dangerous.

    Do the owners of the horses themselves not be annoyed when one of there horses gets killed? waste of a good horse on a dumb ass race..

    Anyway, to give my actual answer on it. I don't like the Grand National races at all as they are crowding the racetrack and the horses are knackered at the end. However there will be casualties at hurdling and flat racing regardless with breakdowns and slips. There's no way to fully remove the chance of injury from racing and despite best intentions there will always be deaths and serious injuries. If you think it's cruel don't watch it, that's the view.


  • #21
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    evo2000 wrote: »
    They were killed pointlessly tho the race itself is a joke, its stupidly long with stupidly high jumps, there needs to be a point where the courses just become ****in stupid.


    They have adjusted the fences and the likes...there was no horse killed in the national..the horse that died was in a novice hurdle on the same card..horses die every day..its a complete non story and sensationalism by the express


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  • #22
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    Healio wrote: »
    End of thread to be honest.

    You dont have to know the ins and outs of it to know lots of 6ft high jumps over a long race, dumb as ****.


  • #23
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Eh? Wouldn't all sprot be more interesting with a genuine chance of death. If there was the potential for Wayne Rooney to be shot/blown-up/stabbed I'd be glued the the Football every week or however often they play.


  • #24
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,887 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Kovu wrote: »
    All I could think of with the pic in that article....

    Horse; 'Oh look! A penny!'

    Faceplant!


  • #25
    evo2000
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭evo2000


    Kovu wrote: »
    Anyway, to give my actual answer on it. I don't like the Grand National races at all as they are crowding the racetrack and the horses are knackered at the end. However there will be casualties at hurdling and flat racing regardless with breakdowns and slips. There's no way to fully remove the chance of injury from racing and despite best intentions there will always be deaths and serious injuries. If you think it's cruel don't watch it, that's the view.

    What ever about the flat racing thats grand see which horse is faster but the one with the hurdles i think is just flat out stupid its just asking for a jockey or horse to be killed or badly hurt.


  • #26
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    evo2000 wrote: »
    What ever about the flat racing thats grand see which horse is faster but the one with the hurdles i think is just flat out stupid its just asking for a jockey or horse to be killed or badly hurt.

    Jockey I don't actually have an issue with, like many sports they have a choice, horses, not so much.

    I was just going to comment that it wouldn't be much uin without the horses but the thought of a load of small guys running around a horse racing circuit actually seems like pretty bloody good entertainment to me.


  • #27
    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    I think if a horse has to be shot after a fall, the jockey should be shot as well.

    Just to even it up, like.


  • #28
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    evo2000 wrote: »
    What ever about the flat racing thats grand see which horse is faster but the one with the hurdles i think is just flat out stupid its just asking for a jockey or horse to be killed or badly hurt.

    Well technically that's not hurdling in the National. There are different types of jump racing, the ditches like that are not in all forms of jump racing.


  • #29
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    the chance of death makes everything more exciting


  • #30
    Berserker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,043 ✭✭✭Berserker


    realies wrote: »
    I gave up trying to understand it after gerry robbed shergars teeth...

    Allegedly ...
    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    If there is even the slightest chance of people trying to enjoy themselves it should be banned

    I blame FF, Enda and the deceased Celtic tiger for all this fun myself.

    On the topic itself, I am not a horse racing fan but the grand national really puzzles me. I know people who own race horses and it costs them an absolute fortune. Why they enter them into races like the grand national which can potentially cause serious harm to their horse is beyond me. It has something to do with the thrill of racing apparently.


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  • #31
    Mr_Muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    Horse racing is pot luck.


    I laugh when i hear people say there have a 'tip' for a horse. I swear the betting shops just make them up to get people to bet.


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