How racing has lost its way

[Gingertipster]

Not true TTC.

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[Gingertipster]

The “actual aim of fox hunting” is to kill the fox, NOT to be “ripped apart“.
Once the fox is dead it is dead; does not feel any more. So usually when a fox is “ripped apart” (as you call it) it feels nothing.
However, just like in horse racing “tragic accidents” in fox hunting “happen” – like “most physical sports“.

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[The Tatling Cheekily]

Really. What is the result of a ‘succesful’ hunt? Do they give Basil a nice cuddle and last meal of chicken, before a tearful and painless euphanasia? I’ve never been on ‘a hunt’, but read enough to know the crack.

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[Gingertipster]

Oh if you “read enough” it must be true, TTC.

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[The Tatling Cheekily]

Presumably you have been on mahy Hunts GT, as the written word is clearly not an adequate source of information?

How did these Hunts you participated in finish?

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[Gingertipster]

I did not “participate” as such TTC, but the finishing result was a dead fox.

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[The Tatling Cheekily]

Sounds like great larks. Shameful .

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[Cork All Star]

The Burns Report into fox hunting did not explicitly state that fox hunting was cruel. Lord Burns said:

“Naturally, people ask whether we were implying that hunting is cruel… The short answer to that question is no. There was not sufficient verifiable evidence or data safely to reach views about cruelty.”

Hunting was banned because Blair had upset his dimwit backbenchers by duping them into voting in favour of the Iraq War. When they finally realised what they had done, Blair got them back onside by banning hunting, even though he did not really believe in the policy himself.

[The Tatling Cheekily]

I cannot believe that the Government thought they would upset a minority off tally-ho merchants in a plan to balance off the bad feeling of killing millions in an illegal War.

Sounds like Pro-Hunt propaganda to me CAS. And far-fetched stuff at that.

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[Marlingford]

I’ve said on here before that National Hunt racing should be renamed Jumps racing, so now seems as good a time as any to voice it again.

Whether hunting is cruel or not is irrelevant. The general population associates it with killing foxes, which is a totally unnecessary and unattractive thing for a modern sport to be associated with.

[IanDavies]

“Flat Racing,” “Jumps Racing” and I would have no objection to renaming Hunters’ Chases and Hunter Chasers “Pointers’ Chases” and “Pointer Chasers.”

Like it or not, image is everything nowadays and it’s an easy, painless, way to survive.

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[Cork All Star]

Blair in effect admits it in his bizarre autobiography. Lots of backbench Labour MPs were furious when it finally dawned on them they had been lied to and conned. So Blair needed to keep them sweet.

[Cork All Star]

Looks like it is awful weather for the Craig David concert at Sandown, where a few horses have been running around beforehand.

Is it wrong of me to think that is quite amusing?

[The Tatling Cheekily]

Re-e-wind. When the crowd gets wet, dis-as-ter!

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[Marlingford]

I think we know who had a ticket Tatling Didn’t realise he is actually Craig David MBE these days!

[The Tatling Cheekily]

MBE! For what?? I’m going to have to google that!

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[Gladiateur]

I never understand the argument that hunting is cruel; it is part of nature and has been since life evolved.

And to those who say that we, as humans, should be above that, I ask one simple question: why do we, if we are so superior, treat our fellow people so badly?

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