I have never been a fan of jumps racing but it has it's place in this country or atleast it did, if you thought we had trouble breeding stayers before then watch what happens now. Before if you had a staying bred horse who wasn't good enough to win a cup (Country Cup or City) then atleast they could have reverted to jumps racing now if they aren't good enough then the only place to go for them is the glue factory.

The staying ranks in this country already have near no depth at all for those that think that this will have no repurcussions on normal gallop racing your kidding yourselves, once all these animal rights activists start winning these wars do you really think it stops there. I am all for looking after these beautifull animals god knows my heart stops everytime one of them goes down hoping there is nothing wrong, but it is also a nature of sports in general bad things can happen death happens unfortunately it is part of life. I would have a guess that the ammount of jockeys who have died or ended up paralysed from horse racing most have happened in flat racing not Jumps racing.

Trust me they have won this battle next comes Gallops, Greyhounds and Harness racing then there will be nothing left.