Quote Originally Posted by Flopsy View Post
Call me a party pooper but I know of no other sport where two of the participants can be fatally injured and yet there is barely a word said about it, except for the fact that it caused disruption for the first time ever as two of the jumps couldn't be jumped second time round.

I've always found horse racing to be quite barbaric in that respect. The horses are the real athletes in the race and yet their deaths during the race goes unnoticed :thunbdown:

I still remember Alverton who won the Arkle Challenge Tropy in 1978 and the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1979 (beating two great horses Tied Cottage and Aldaniti) and broke his neck at Bechers Brook in 1979. I couldn't understand why the owner would enter such a great horse in the lottery that is the National :angry: