Horse-Racing's Strangest Races - Andrew Ward

Some misconceptions of the horse racing industry

Advantages: price, entertainment, family fun
Disadvantages: public persona

HORSE RACING IN BRITAIN The horse racing industry is often misconcepted as being expensive and puts animal cruelty on the line. However, media interest from groups such as Animal Aid has heightened this conception over the past few years and the levels of attendances have been down since the middle of this decade. Horse racing is a risky sport, in fact the most dangerous in the world for a sportsman but there are many rules and regulations in place to stop the sport from taking the lives of both the horse and human competitors but accidents do happen. Animal Aid actually record on their website the deaths of all the horses in the UK which I personally believe is not information the public want to know. I am currently conducting a survey on the price of racing and of other sports particularly football. Racing is actually ...

acesangel 02.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Horse Racing - General

horse racing is cool

Advantages: this channel provides me with vital information
Disadvantages: This channel is known to have alot of interference

i am a new member to ciao and this is my first opinion. so lets get to the product. i am fond of horses i have 1 horse and work with 22 other horses. horse racing is a good sport i watch it on channel 4 with my mum because she inspired me because she is a show jumper. when i am older i want to be a horse jockey because i love riding horses.i also ride my mums horse 'minstral'. i got inspired when i started working at osberton hall stables at worksop. As much as i enjoy riding them i enjoy watching them on television with my mum. From watching channel 4 they have inspired me alot and tought me new things. I think having such a channel of racing it can inspire lots of other people just as it did me. All though this channel has inspired me alot with new ideas. This channel commentator always points great tips to horse owners on their ...

bustermoves 03.08.2001 · Read full review
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Review of horse racing

wot no racing

Advantages: rewarding if you make the grade
Disadvantages: working 12-1/2 days over 14 days

Having broused all of the sport section on oppinions i could not find anything on horse racing so i thought i would give it a go. in 1968 i went into the racing game and only left it 5 years ago all i can say is that i made a good living out of it. having had many a good gamble come off with the horses that i looked after. My second son is allso going it to the game it is a very good career for any budding young jockeys out there .if you know of anybody who would like have a go at what can be a very rewarding job for any young and get-up-and-go youngsters then just e-mail me at jack.robinson1@btinternet.com and i would send any information i can for them to follow up with such as getting it touch with race horse trainers. so long as they are not too heavy say not more than 6 to 7 stone also i would like anybody to get in touch if ...

jackciao 13.07.2000 · Read full review
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