Hippies try and wreck Grand National

[Ymx]

Mr Incredible
Our power
Born by the sea
Cape Gentleman

Are the family picks

[fishfoodie]

Hopefully the only injuries today are to the protestors !

[fishfoodie]

Now hopefully we have a starter who doesn't fuck about over a few yards advantage, when the race is over miles

[fishfoodie]

Messiest in years. Well done protesters

Yep. Instead of marshalls focused on looking after the horses welfare, by getting the loose horses out of the race, they were watching for dickheads gluing themselves to things.

The 1st fence remains the worst, because too many horses arriving too fast.

[C69]

Well I won £50

[Ymx]

Grand National 2023 full result – the finishers and the fallers

Finished

Corach Rambler (8/1 fav)
Vanillier (20/1)
Gaillard Du Mesnil (10/1)
Noble Yeats (10/1)
The Big Dog (12/1)
Born By The Sea (50/1)
Roi Mage (33/1)
Mister Coffey (33/1)
A Wave Of The Sea (66/1)
Le Milos (12/1)
Our Power (25/1)
Enjoy D'allen (50/1)
Fortescue (100/1)
Carefully Selected (50/1)
Minella Trump (50/1)
Francky Du Berlais (125/1)
Ain't That A Shame (10/1)



Did not finish

Fury Road (33/1) - fell
Darasso (100/1) - unseated rider
Lifetime Ambition (33/1) - unseated rider
Gabbys Cross (50/1) - unseated rider
Sam Brown (66/1) - fell
Dunboyne (50/1)
Galvin (22/1) - unseated rider
Velvet Elvis (33/1)
Delta Work (11/1) - unseated rider
Eva's Oskar (50/1) - unseated rider
Mr Incredible (14/1) - unseated rider
The Big Breakaway (40/1) - fell
Longhouse Poet (20/1) - unseated rider
Hill Sixteen (80/1) - fell
Recite A Prayer (80/1) - unseated rider
Cape Gentleman (66/1)
Coko Beach (25/1)
Back On The Lash (20/1)
Diol Ker (100/1) - unseated rider
Any Second Now (12/1)
Capodanno (16/1)
Cloudy Glen (80/1) - unseated rider


Did not start

Escaria Ten (withdrawn)

[Ymx]

17 finished
22 dnf
1 non start

Just 42.5% finished

[fishfoodie]

The best news is the bookies took an absolute pumping

[Margin__Walker]

I'm with the hippies on this one.

Shit sport that kills horses, and did so again today. Fine if you're in to that, but it's not for me

[fishfoodie]

I'm with the hippies on this one.

Shit sport that kills horses, and did so again today. Fine if you're in to that, but it's not for me

How many NH races do you watch a year ?

[Margin__Walker]

I'm with the hippies on this one.

Shit sport that kills horses, and did so again today. Fine if you're in to that, but it's not for me

How many NH races do you watch a year ?

None this year. Have seen it in the past though.

[Slick]

Winner for the 4th year in a row .

Although I think everyone in Scotland had a couple of quid on the winner

[fishfoodie]

I'm with the hippies on this one.

Shit sport that kills horses, and did so again today. Fine if you're in to that, but it's not for me

How many NH races do you watch a year ?

None this year. Have seen it in the past though.

You can't judge an entire sport by a single, very unique, race.

I think if you compared Rugby, to Racing in terms of the number of races, number of participants, & the fatality rate, you'd ban Rugby first.

The GN has particular problems, & first of those is too damn many runners; it's been called for years, & like today the way the loose horses get in the way. They've done a lot to make the fences & landings much, much safer,but the fundamental problem is just too many horses arriving at the 1st fence too fast.

[Margin__Walker]

How many NH races do you watch a year ?

None this year. Have seen it in the past though.

You can't judge an entire sport by a single, very unique, race.

I think if you compared Rugby, to Racing in terms of the number of races, number of participants, & the fatality rate, you'd ban Rugby first.

The GN has particular problems, & first of those is too damn many runners; it's been called for years, & like today the way the loose horses get in the way. They've done a lot to make the fences & landings much, much safer,but the fundamental problem is just too many horses arriving at the 1st fence too fast.

Apologies then. Shit race meet, assuming horses aren't being killed in comparable numbers during the rest of the NH season.

Although rugby and racing has a fairly obvious difference.

[fishfoodie]

None this year. Have seen it in the past though.

You can't judge an entire sport by a single, very unique, race.

I think if you compared Rugby, to Racing in terms of the number of races, number of participants, & the fatality rate, you'd ban Rugby first.

The GN has particular problems, & first of those is too damn many runners; it's been called for years, & like today the way the loose horses get in the way. They've done a lot to make the fences & landings much, much safer,but the fundamental problem is just too many horses arriving at the 1st fence too fast.

Apologies then. Shit race meet, assuming horses aren't being killed in comparable numbers during the rest of the NH season.

Although rugby and racing has a fairly obvious difference.

Indeed; no one is paying Gavin Henson stud fees for riding their daughters

[Blackmac]

Picked 3 and got 1st, 2nd and 5th. Utter fluke but a couple of hundred quid to the good.

[Uncle fester]

Grand National 2023 full result – the finishers and the fallers

Finished

Corach Rambler (8/1 fav)
Vanillier (20/1)
Gaillard Du Mesnil (10/1)
Noble Yeats (10/1)
The Big Dog (12/1)
Born By The Sea (50/1)
Roi Mage (33/1)
Mister Coffey (33/1)
A Wave Of The Sea (66/1)
Le Milos (12/1)
Our Power (25/1)
Enjoy D'allen (50/1)
Fortescue (100/1)
Carefully Selected (50/1)
Minella Trump (50/1)
Francky Du Berlais (125/1)
Ain't That A Shame (10/1)



Did not finish

Fury Road (33/1) - fell
Darasso (100/1) - unseated rider
Lifetime Ambition (33/1) - unseated rider
Gabbys Cross (50/1) - unseated rider
Sam Brown (66/1) - fell
Dunboyne (50/1)
Galvin (22/1) - unseated rider
Velvet Elvis (33/1)
Delta Work (11/1) - unseated rider
Eva's Oskar (50/1) - unseated rider
Mr Incredible (14/1) - unseated rider
The Big Breakaway (40/1) - fell
Longhouse Poet (20/1) - unseated rider
Hill Sixteen (80/1) - fell
Recite A Prayer (80/1) - unseated rider
Cape Gentleman (66/1)
Coko Beach (25/1)
Back On The Lash (20/1)
Diol Ker (100/1) - unseated rider
Any Second Now (12/1)
Capodanno (16/1)
Cloudy Glen (80/1) - unseated rider


Did not start

Escaria Ten (withdrawn)

Hill sixteen died in the race.

[Slick]

None this year. Have seen it in the past though.

You can't judge an entire sport by a single, very unique, race.

I think if you compared Rugby, to Racing in terms of the number of races, number of participants, & the fatality rate, you'd ban Rugby first.

The GN has particular problems, & first of those is too damn many runners; it's been called for years, & like today the way the loose horses get in the way. They've done a lot to make the fences & landings much, much safer,but the fundamental problem is just too many horses arriving at the 1st fence too fast.

Apologies then. Shit race meet, assuming horses aren't being killed in comparable numbers during the rest of the NH season.

Although rugby and racing has a fairly obvious difference.

I understand why they target the GN to get the big hits, but when we are killing billions of chicks and chickens a year plus millions of cows, sheep and pigs it does seem a little indulgent for the pricks to be honest

[fishfoodie]

You can't judge an entire sport by a single, very unique, race.

I think if you compared Rugby, to Racing in terms of the number of races, number of participants, & the fatality rate, you'd ban Rugby first.

The GN has particular problems, & first of those is too damn many runners; it's been called for years, & like today the way the loose horses get in the way. They've done a lot to make the fences & landings much, much safer,but the fundamental problem is just too many horses arriving at the 1st fence too fast.

Apologies then. Shit race meet, assuming horses aren't being killed in comparable numbers during the rest of the NH season.

Although rugby and racing has a fairly obvious difference.

I understand why they target the GN to get the big hits, but when we are killing billions of chicks and chickens a year plus millions of cows, sheep and pigs it does seem a little indulgent for the pricks to be honest

One of the crackpot vegan groups was putting up billboards in Ireland showing a Holstein with her calves, & the appeal, that eating meat & drinking milk, separated the mother from her calves

Because if we were all vegan, these Holsteins would be living the good life, frolicking in the fields

... just like the horses today, if the sport didn't exist, neither would these animals, & they wouldn't enjoy any life at all.

[Biffer]

How many NH races do you watch a year ?

None this year. Have seen it in the past though.

You can't judge an entire sport by a single, very unique, race.

I think if you compared Rugby, to Racing in terms of the number of races, number of participants, & the fatality rate, you'd ban Rugby first.

The GN has particular problems, & first of those is too damn many runners; it's been called for years, & like today the way the loose horses get in the way. They've done a lot to make the fences & landings much, much safer,but the fundamental problem is just too many horses arriving at the 1st fence too fast.

Doubt it. There were 189 horse deaths due to racing in 2019. Considering there are many more rugby players than racing horses, you would have to be talking about thousands of Rugby deaths each year.

And obviously it's a wrong headed comparison.

[Line6 HXFX]

If we listened to the hippies for the last 70 years and their message of peace and love, harmony with nature, living selflessly, we would have been in a far far better f'ucking world than we are in now.

Instead we listened to Thatcher and her coterie of absolute selfish fucking cunts and are pouring raw sewage into our rivers,fucking up the planet, disrespecting everything in nature and killing the poor sick an vulnerable at a rate Hitler would have been proud of.

We seriously need to go full on hippy if we are to live on this planet for the next 100 years.

But hey let's lock all environmental and animal ights protestors up, and kill our last chance and this culture stone dead..because absolute human diarrhea like Suella and Micheal Gove don't like them.

[Tilly Orifice]

How many NH races do you watch a year ?

None this year. Have seen it in the past though.

You can't judge an entire sport by a single, very unique, race.

I think if you compared Rugby, to Racing in terms of the number of races, number of participants, & the fatality rate, you'd ban Rugby first.

The GN has particular problems, & first of those is too damn many runners; it's been called for years, & like today the way the loose horses get in the way. They've done a lot to make the fences & landings much, much safer,but the fundamental problem is just too many horses arriving at the 1st fence too fast.

Bullshit, you never see a horse killed at a rugby game. Anyway the GN is a cunt of a thing.

[Stranger]

Putting aside the horse racing debate, the GN is in no way justifiable.

[Blackmac]

I keep hearing the mantra, if humans were dying doing a sport we would ban it. Dozens killed climbing in the highlands this year. Not a peep.

I'm no expert on horse racing but I presume these animals are useless for anything other than racing,so presumably if we ban the sport we would essentially lose all the horses, which I doubt anyone will maintain if they are of no use.

[Blackmac]

Apologies then. Shit race meet, assuming horses aren't being killed in comparable numbers during the rest of the NH season.

Although rugby and racing has a fairly obvious difference.

I understand why they target the GN to get the big hits, but when we are killing billions of chicks and chickens a year plus millions of cows, sheep and pigs it does seem a little indulgent for the pricks to be honest

One of the crackpot vegan groups was putting up billboards in Ireland showing a Holstein with her calves, & the appeal, that eating meat & drinking milk, separated the mother from her calves

Because if we were all vegan, these Holsteins would be living the good life, frolicking in the fields

... just like the horses today, if the sport didn't exist, neither would these animals, & they wouldn't enjoy any life at all.

Sorry, just seen this. Confirmed my earlier question.

[Uncle fester]

I keep hearing the mantra, if humans were dying doing a sport we would ban it. Dozens killed climbing in the highlands this year. Not a peep.

I'm no expert on horse racing but I presume these animals are useless for anything other than racing,so presumably if we ban the sport we would essentially lose all the horses, which I doubt anyone will maintain if they are of no use.

Are paddy power offering odds on that?

Significant reason for my distaste is that it all goes towards the coffers of the gambling industry.

[FalseBayFC]

Yep. Fuck horses, badgers and foxes. Look at this one. LOL. Absolutely wrecked after hitting the first hurdle. WORLDSTAR! Knocked the fuck out!
Best part of the Grand National tbh

[FalseBayFC]

Yep. Fuck horses, badgers and foxes. Look at this one. LOL. Absolutely wrecked after hitting the first hurdle. WORLDSTAR! Knocked the fuck out!
Best part of the Grand National tbh

Nobody wants that to happen. I am not sure what you are trying to say? Ban jump racing? And as an added measure don't kill badgers or foxes? Are they inextricably linked? You do know farmers kill foxes for good reason don't you. They kill lambs. They are a dog. Get rid of sheep farming then the foxes can go mad. Badgers is TB. Get rid of cows and the badgers can run amok. Think a lad I knew was working on some way of killing off the parasite in badgers so they wouldn't spread TB. Send him a few bob

I played polo and polocrosse for 25 years and have owned dozens of horses. Yes ban jump racing. Its a ridiculous sport. Followed mostly by people who have never ridden a horse in their lives.

[mat the expat]

I'm all for it as long as they show the horses being shot - no screens, etc

[Jock42]

I keep hearing the mantra, if humans were dying doing a sport we would ban it. Dozens killed climbing in the highlands this year. Not a peep.

I'm no expert on horse racing but I presume these animals are useless for anything other than racing,so presumably if we ban the sport we would essentially lose all the horses, which I doubt anyone will maintain if they are of no use.

Are paddy power offering odds on that?

Significant reason for my distaste is that it all goes towards the coffers of the gambling industry.

I'll give you 1000-1 that I don't make it back from Beinn Udlamain and Sgairneach Mhor on Thursday.

[Torquemada 1420]

Hopefully the only injuries today are to the protestors !

That would be a forlorn hope. The National is an annual, equine butchery. It should be consigned to history along with bull fighting.

[Torquemada 1420]

I'm all for it as long as they show the horses being shot - no screens, etc

Yup.

[JM2K6]

I'm all for it as long as they show the horses being shot - no screens, etc

Yup.

Ah, the vore fans have logged on

[Torquemada 1420]

I'm all for it as long as they show the horses being shot - no screens, etc

Yup.

Ah, the vore fans have logged on

You'll have to explain. I get the latin but the reference is nothing to do with that, right?

[weegie01]

Quite a sensible thread in the other place on this topic.

[JM2K6]

Yup.

Ah, the vore fans have logged on

You'll have to explain. I get the latin but the reference is nothing to do with that, right?

Balls, I possibly used the wrong word. Whatever the fetish is for seeing dead animals.

[JM2K6]

You'll have to explain. I get the latin but the reference is nothing to do with that, right?

Balls, I possibly used the wrong word. Whatever the fetish is for seeing dead animals.

That means wanting to be eaten or eat someone. You sexy bastard

I knew someone here would be an expert. I am not at all surprised to discover who.

[mat the expat]

I'm all for it as long as they show the horses being shot - no screens, etc

Yup.

Ah, the vore fans have logged on

I think you tried to hard there....

[Torquemada 1420]

Ah, the vore fans have logged on

You'll have to explain. I get the latin but the reference is nothing to do with that, right?

Balls, I possibly used the wrong word. Whatever the fetish is for seeing dead animals.

[weegie01]

Quite a sensible thread in the other place on this topic.

What's the main points?

Some people opposed to horse racing in principle due to the deaths. Some of whom misunderstand the way horses and ex racers are actually treated.

Others taking the view that sport has risk, some sports are riskier than others, this is a risky one for humans and riders.

General acceptance that the Grand National is too much about the spectacle and this should be changed for welfare reasons, e.g. fewer horses, so better quality, more space so fewer fallers etc, but risk can't be eliminated.