I had an old schoolfriend who ended up to be a stable lad at Ryan Price's stables in Findon. he used to do the mucky stuff but often would ride out the horses on the gallops. he said that lots of the horses were either very bad, mad or psychotic due to the fact that the only considerations in...
I think that you are viewing The National in isolation. Most of the fences are used across the whole meeting and deaths are not uncommon. It's just that the National is watched by lots of people who are not regular racegoers who see their horse go down on live tv and not get up again and then...