"Every animal dies - but not every animal lives with the quality of life that a racehorse gets." Horse racing journalist Kevin Blake responds to Animal Rising's Alex Lockwood's view that the sport is cruel and profit-orientated. Kevin Blake | @RooLockwood | Talk | #PMU

Grand National day. For those of us that live and breathe the game, this day can be an emotional rollercoaster. Excitement, worry, elation, frustration, relief. In amongst all of it, don't forget one key truth. After the naysayers fire their arrows at our sport in the pursuit of

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Id say leave the protesters stay in the middle of the fence, a good kicking would be no harm

By trying to break down Aintree’s fences and get onto the track, these clowns are in fact causing risk to the welfare of the horses. You truly couldn’t make up the stupidity.

I’ll tell you what is more dangerous than the Grand National. Having horses parade around in the sun, getting hot, worked up and stressed before running in the Grand National. Absolutely moronic behaviour from the protestors.

'Protests nothing to do with horse welfare.' Trainer Sandy Thomson says Saturday's Animal Rising protestors were "using the Grand National as a platform to get noticed and on TV.". 🗣️

🗣 "You can never reduce risk to zero... No one wants a horse to die in racing - that's the worst-case scenario." 🎙 Kevin Blake, Matt Chapman and Francesca Cumani discuss the Grand National. #ITVRacing | #GrandNational

"80% of people under 40 wouldn't attend a horse race meeting on moral grounds" If Animal Rising's rise to prominence in the last week has taught us anything it's that the organisation has a phobia of accurate statistics.

Harry Beard Animal Rising Chucking ladders over which injured a horse, causing a delay & disruption which caused the horses to get jarred up, resisting arrest & obstruction on ground yous were trespassing on. To name a few. Apparently is peaceful. Not helping with solutions & actually caused more harm!

Turn up, know nothing about horse racing, don’t really care about horse racing, most probably cause more danger to the horses involved 🤝🏻 all for publicity to set up: ‘oh and by the way, please donate us some money’ 😂 just extremists with an agenda.

Oop, there it is 😂

More miserable horses moping around a small enclosed space with little fresh pasture.

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