I tend to disagree JD, we have already had two horses die at Aintree and the grand national isn't until tomorrow, i like horses and i find it barbaric.
I always liked George Orwells analogy in Animal Farm, he was saying that although horse racing is all about money, to the humans it is a way of generating money and although they will revel in it, the poor old race horse only ever gets an extra bale of hay, although they are of course, the work horses whose labour generated all the wealth in the first place.
He was of course talking about Marxism, and how the capitalists will always make money out of the working classes, who always get nothing.
Politics aside, horse racing is just plain cruel, and tomorrow i shall be watching Castleford play Huddersfield, rather than the grand national.
