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I don't think you need to be part of animal aid to be distressed at the sight of a flailing leg (Montana Belle yesterday for example). It upsets me to the extent that it does occasionally make me question the sport - having loved it for as long as I can remember. Not that this was the case of Nicholls Canyon, and racing deaths are something that I've mostly come to come to terms with as part of the game. However, that is very different to highlighting it gratuitously. Absolutely unnecessary to show the fall, which had no bearing on the highlights of the race.

In fact, I think Ted Walsh glories in a certain Irish feckem-they-are-only-horses-at-the-end-of-the-day attitude to racing - I'm old enough to remember his ride on Attitude Adjuster to win the Foxhunters in 86 - 'tore rashers off him' I think was the expression he used. The folksy 'arent the brits soft over there' is fine for tv, but its a thread that runs through Irish sport from hunting, coursing and rubs off on racing.

Show Nicholls Canyon winning the stayers for 20 seconds instead of him falling/dying.

<blockquote data-quote="HawkWing" data-source="post: 2421327" data-attributes="member: 65640">I don&#039;t think you need to be part of animal aid to be distressed at the sight of a flailing leg (Montana Belle yesterday for example). It upsets me to the extent that it does occasionally make me question the sport - having loved it for as long as I can remember. Not that this was the case of Nicholls Canyon, and racing deaths are something that I&#039;ve mostly come to come to terms with as part of the game. However, that is very different to highlighting it gratuitously. Absolutely unnecessary to show the fall, which had no bearing on the highlights of the race.In fact, I think Ted Walsh glories in a certain Irish feckem-they-are-only-horses-at-the-end-of-the-day attitude to racing - I&#039;m old enough to remember his ride on Attitude Adjuster to win the Foxhunters in 86 - &#039;tore rashers off him&#039; I think was the expression he used. The folksy &#039;arent the brits soft over there&#039; is fine for tv, but its a thread that runs through Irish sport from hunting, coursing and rubs off on racing.&nbsp; Show Nicholls Canyon winning the stayers for 20 seconds instead of him falling/dying.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HawkWing, post: 2421327, member: 65640"] I don't think you need to be part of animal aid to be distressed at the sight of a flailing leg (Montana Belle yesterday for example). It upsets me to the extent that it does occasionally make me question the sport - having loved it for as long as I can remember. Not that this was the case of Nicholls Canyon, and racing deaths are something that I've mostly come to come to terms with as part of the game. However, that is very different to highlighting it gratuitously. Absolutely unnecessary to show the fall, which had no bearing on the highlights of the race. In fact, I think Ted Walsh glories in a certain Irish feckem-they-are-only-horses-at-the-end-of-the-day attitude to racing - I'm old enough to remember his ride on Attitude Adjuster to win the Foxhunters in 86 - 'tore rashers off him' I think was the expression he used. The folksy 'arent the brits soft over there' is fine for tv, but its a thread that runs through Irish sport from hunting, coursing and rubs off on racing. Show Nicholls Canyon winning the stayers for 20 seconds instead of him falling/dying. [/QUOTE]

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