Ominous pre-race incident: Synchronised unseats his jockey, Tony McCoy, before the start,
THIS BEAUTIFUL HORSE, THIS YEAR'S FAVOURITE AND THE WINNER OF THE CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP, IS NOW DEAD. THIS HORSE KNEW SOMETHING WAS HORRIBLY WRONG TODAY!
The Grand National.
What’s so bloody GRAND about it?
This is NOT a race, it is a shameful, annual gamble with precious horses' and riders' lives.
Horses and jockies start to fall in dramatic fashion from the very first fence, right through to the last. This is a pagan, ritual bloodfest that has NO PLACE IN MODERN SOCIETY –
IT IS TIME TO BAN THIS RACE FOR EVER!
BECHERS BLOODY BROOK – still notorious, still killing horses!
Every year we hear from the managers of this racecourse that major changes to improve the safety of the course, and strenuous attempts to address concerns, have taken place.
How much longer are we, the idiot public, going to believe this utter lame, ineffective BULLSHIT?
As far as I am concerned, Aintree should be closed and tarmacked over for a Tesco or Asda.
I, and many others, are absolutely sick of this gory, repugnant spectacle.
Get rid of it!
Synchronised, which won the Cheltenham Gold Cup last month and was being ridden by Tony McCoy, the champion jockey, had to be put down by vets after falling at the notorious Becher’s Brook.
Another horse, According to Pete, also had to be destroyed after falling later in the race, which was won by Neptune Collonges, ridden by Daryl Jacob.
Another two animals were injured and only 15 of the 40 starters completed the course. A jockey, Noel Fehily, was last night in hospital with a suspected broken ankle after his horse fell.
The winning horse, Neptune Collonge's trainer, Paul Nicholls, was asked about the fatalities and said: “We all know before we come here about the risks. The horses get looked after brilliantly but unfortunately these things do happen.”
The horses do not know and are not consulted, are they?
For me, the winner today was the very sensible horse - Vic Venturi, who refused to jump mid-race and left the course, trotting to safety with his rider still in place.
This was the most intelligent, alert and clever horse at Aintree today, the Alex Jones, the David Icke, of horses!
He woke up, he smelled the coffee and he fecked off out of it!
WELL DONE, VIC VENTURI
Let's hope he's not brought back next year.