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Out of interest, why do you think they should be looked at carefully? You've admitted that you don't follow the sport so how is it that you think the practices of a wide range of people and businesses need to be looked at? Just interested as to why all of a sudden race clubs, owners...

I wasn't referring to you. More to the people who spread all the untruths and demonize the people who work in the industry. There's just sections of people out there who swallow all of the bullshit put out there buy hypocrites like the RSPCA.

I see a lot more horses dying in flat races than in jumps racing. So from where I sit that is just as dangerous to the animals as a whole. You must understand that people who watch and follow the sport yearly have to take umbrage at the opinions of people who don't even follow the sport but...

The point is if it was all about the animals welfare and it not dying then the protests and gnashing of teeth need not be directed at just jumps racing but ALL forms of interaction with horses. We don't need to ride horses in this day and age. It's purely a selfish human pursuit surely? So why...

Do you understand the statistics you're reading though? To understand them you'd have to understand the amount of races held and the size of the fields. Without that understanding those statistics are meaninglessness. If I collated those statistics to 48 races times an avg of 6 starters per...

The mathematics is simple if you understand how many horse races occur each day,week,month,year. Which it seems you don't if you don't follow the sport. Do you realise that the total amount of jumps races is 48 for the whole year? The total amount of flat races held per week is at an avg of...

That is called misleading. Going by those statistics several hundred more flat horses die each year in races because the amount of horses that start in flat races compared to jumps races is tens of thousands times more. Do you even realise how few jumps races happen and what the size of the...

It's called following the sport. How would you know what happens in the sport if you don't follow it?

I provided examples of horses dying in paddocks as a very common occurrence. You made excuses for why it happens with your bias attached to your reasoning rather than anything actually related to the horses themselves. You really can't take the high ground on what horses should and shouldn't...

The RSPCA are a joke. They put down more healthy animals than any other organisation in the nation. Hypocrisy rules supreme with them.

Really? Me thinks you don't know a lot about horses other than what you read on those stupid biased sites. Thoroughbreds are always going to be more prone to injuries no matter where they are because they are finer in build and overall more skittish in nature than a standard bred horse...

It's not actually barbaric. If it was barbaric the horses wouldn't be schooled, trained, fed. Plenty of horses are schooled for jumps racing and fail. Those lucky sods get to be sent off to the knackery. Does this call for banning jumps also extend to children's pony clubs who also jump horses?

I follow horse racing here. You'd be surprised at how many horses are put down from injuries sustained while not racing. here's a few examples. Even an equestrian one. Echo Of Light put down after paddock accident | the-racehorse.com Martino Alonso put down following paddock accident |...

And higher unemployment.

Any use of a horse potentially can lead to their death. From pulling carts to local pony clubs for kids to equestrian events, to polo to running around in a paddock. More horses die from accidents in their own paddocks than die from jumps racing.

Without jumps racing the need for horses would diminish further and you'd have to cull thousands upon thousands of horses anyway. Either way you'll end up with dead horses.