First fatality at Aintree

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/apr/04/battlefront-dies-grand-national-meeting

 

Oh look who was riding it too.

 

I thought that too!

 

Sickening.

 

0.2% of fatalities!
More have been put in Tesco's burger's!
Fact.

 

So heart attack right?, not that it could have happened just running at home or owt. over sensationalism by the media.

 

What have they oversensationalised? I found it to be quite factual. Also, you truly believe the horse would have just happened to have a heart attack today stood calmly in a field?

 

nobody ever thought my grandad would have a heart attack and die stood calmly in the post office waiting for his first pension. But he did.

 

Yes, but was your grandad at the fittest he had ever been in his life (as I presume the horse was)? Oh course it can happen to anyone, anywhere but the likelihood of it happening to this horse is slim. Horses aren't prone to heart attacks like humans are unless they already have a disease of the heart. As this is a race horse I presume it undergoes many health checks and it wouldn't be a race horse if it suffered from heart conditions.

 

the same health checks that professional footie players are supposed to have.Unfortunatley its very hard to predict a heart attack in any form of life.

The article seems to blame the fences at aintree, more race horses die from flat racing than jump racing apparently.

 

Professional football players are human though yes?

 

Push any creature beyond it's physical capabilities and you can pretty much predict a negative reaction.

 

Walsh in defence of the National....

'Sure, it’s a dangerous sport but every night, all over the world, a lot of horses are left out in fields starving.
‘These horses are so well looked after. Better than some children, to be honest with you.
‘I don’t read the criticism because it’s not worth it. At the end of the day it would be a lot worse if it had been two jockeys who lost their lives. I think everyone should remember that.’

‘I hope to God there are no accidents this year, but these things happen, and they’re horses at the end of the day.'


There have been stronger arguments posted on here. Looked after better than some children? Well, I should bloody think so, for how many children do you have to pay a million quid for a cup of their Dad's spunnk?

 

I totally understand all the comments but way the article is wrote, its as if its just a problem at aintree, which it isnt.

it would be interesting to see how many other horses have a heart attack,or die through there sport this weekend but wont get a mention. but IF and personally i hope not any others pass at aintree how much will be written in the press about how barbaric the Grand National and the aintree fences are.

 

Remind me to not let her near my kids if I ever have any. I bet she's top of everybody's babysitting list.

 

Katie Walsh really is thick. Her comments were pathetic at best, and karma pretty much did for her today.

Having said that, the fences themselves passed with flying colours. Half(ish) the field completed the course, and there were no injuries caused by the fences themselves. Hopefully this continues throughout the meeting, but I'm worried the ground will be riding too quick come 4 oclock on Saturday.

The death of a horse is tragic as ever, but a heart attack could have happened at any time to anyone.

On a side note, I'm wondering how many papers have got sweeps for the National and free bets on the Saturday, but in the same publication will tell us how barbaric it is the next morning.

 

Would you, though?

 

Leonna Mayor is better. Can't post an image because I'm a bit thick, but she was in Zoo Mag this week.

 

If the National Hunt community regard the death of a horse as "tragic" why do they allow it to happen time and time again? Let these fantastic animals run and compete, just keep them fcking safe. What is wrong with these morons? Do they have a hard on for dead race horses? Is that it? Do they have a death perversion?