I still find it hard to believe that anyone’s first reaction wasn’t just “dickhead”
It’s taken me five days to post on here becuase I’ve been subject to some fairly impressive trolling on social media for pointing out that not only was he not in control of the photo being taken, he certainly wasn’t guilty of anything other than being crass and stupid and I really couldn’t at any stage get butthurt about it. The public decimation of him and his staff has been appalling to watch - and largely from people who shouldn’t spent the rest of their days posting about mental health.
Now it might be that the 22 years spent in
Vet work surrounded by working in racing yards had hardened me to things that go on, but seriously - there was no cruelty involved here, it was just a stupid moment that someone else thought was funny to photograph and caption. If the general public knew what went on in vet surgeries and hospitals up and down the country they’d implode - there’s a very strange sense of humour that develops over time and it’s largely because if you didn’t, you wouldn’t be able to work in the kind of pressure environments they are.
Far far worse to my mind is the sharing of the photo for personal gain and the subsequent hatchet job attempted by people ( who appear to be related ) when they MUST have known it would blow up to some extent. It was a deliberate, calculated thing to destroy him - and that, to my mind has done more to damage the integrity of racing than a photo of GE sitting on a dead horse.
Let’s not go into the fact that I’m not 100% convinced that horse hes sat on is Mason looking at the photos of him online and comparing them.
It’s a mess. But he’s done nothing other than sit on a cadaver. I’ve done it - the only difference being that it was my horse, I didn’t even remotely consider it being disrespectful to her ( though I’m very much of the opinion that once dead, the animal or person isn’t there any more anyway, it’s just their physical form left) - and I wasn’t photographed and im not aware I have a disgruntled person set out to bury me after.
The whole thing is a bloody storm in a teacup - whipped up into a frenzy by people wanting to be self righteous and competing to be the most vocal about being offended. They are the ones who have damaged racing, led by the people behind the photo becoming public, not GE.
It’s been nice to see all the yards who have been sharing photos of their staff and horses on social media, but I do think they are in danger of making people thing we protest too much...
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) and I am sorry that you should have been trolled so vehemently for saying so. They are all pillocks.