manics_fan
March 17th, 2006, 08:03 PM
The Jockey Club is launching a review of safety procedures at the Cheltenham Festival after nine racehorses died during the four-day programme.
Two animals died in the first two days, six horses died as a result of falls on Thursday and another fatality in Friday's final race marred National Hunt racing's showpiece event.
Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/4815804.stm
Terrible, it's this sort of thing that makes it easy for me to explain to people why I hate horse racing so much :-/
Two animals died in the first two days, six horses died as a result of falls on Thursday and another fatality in Friday's final race marred National Hunt racing's showpiece event.
Full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/4815804.stm
Terrible, it's this sort of thing that makes it easy for me to explain to people why I hate horse racing so much :-/