It was known before the event that there would be protestors and realistically if animal welfare was the priority, I'm sure they could have found a way to work around the protests. Instead it seems that they proceeded with the race as expected and landed themselves in a position where the protestors did their bit, the race got delayed, the animals got wound up and so onCertain horses would undoubtedly have been affected by the delay. You could see this by horses jig-jogging/sweating up, etc.
You mean their owners, jockeys and trainers will have had this as their target raceMany of the horses will have had this as their target race all season.
I have seen very little on how the training regimes aren't necessarily all sunshine and rainbows too. A lot of articles about this are US focused or from animal charities so I won't bother posting as I expect responses about bias. Further, the industry seems to be pretty secretive
Does anyone remember the Panorama about how retired horses are slaughtered? You hear a lot less about it than you do about ordinary farm animals and the cruelty of that
Opinion: Evidence of cruelty to race horses continues to mount – how can we justify this as ‘sport’?
Compelling video footage filmed by Animal Aid shows that so-called ‘welfare’ rules have been ignored at one of the UK’s biggest abattoirs – enough is enough
www.independent.co.uk