Horse-race cruelty

DON'T back cruelty.
By The Newsroom
Published 27th Aug 2008, 14:16 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 01:09 BST

For you it's only a harmless flutter, but horses can pay with their lives.

At the punishing Grand National, 40 horses usually take part in an excessively crowded field.

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Behind horse racing's glamorous facade lies a catalogue of suffering and death.

Around 400 horses are raced to death every year.

They perish as a result of a broken leg, neck, back or pelvis, spinal injuries, exhaustion, heart attack or burst blood vessels.

M. Jones,

Lansdowne Road,

Wick

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