whips and jockeys...

[thebish]

I heard "top jockey" Richard Hughes on t'radio today ranting about the unfairness of his ban...

he said summat like:

"how many people out there have been caught time and time again by the same speed camera - you know it's there but you always speed past it and think - oh no!"

well - speaking for myself - never! I have NEVER been more than once by the same speed camera - never! Am I unique - or does it just prove how stupid jockeys (or Richard Hughes?) are (is?)

[Harry Genshaw]

It's a debate that intrigues me is this.

I have no interest in horse racing. Whipping an animal to go quicker just strikes me as cruelty yet I hear on R5 today that the jockeys are talking of going on strike and folk like me just "don't understand horse racing". This is certainly true, but I'm sure I recgonise cruelty when I see it.

Any racing fans on here enlighten me on the arguments for the whip?

[thebish]

It's a debate that intrigues me is this.

I have no interest in horse racing. Whipping an animal to go quicker just strikes me as cruelty yet I hear on R5 today that the jockeys are talking of going on strike and folk like me just "don't understand horse racing". This is certainly true, but I'm sure I recgonise cruelty when I see it.

Any racing fans on here enlighten me on the arguments for the whip?

it puzzles me... what I don't get is that all the jockeys say the whips don't hurt the horse because they are "air-cushioned"... but they say the whips "encourage" the horse... how does a non-hurting whip "encourage" a horse to run faster? I could understand "OK stop hitting me, that hurts! I'll run faster!" - but not "I can't really feel anything - I'll run faster."

[Annoyed Grunt]

Never been caught by the same camera either, I know its there I slow down.

Don't understand horse racing, but I'm guessing whipping the horse would make it try to go faster.

[thebish]

Never been caught by the same camera either, I know its there I slow down.

Don't understand horse racing, but I'm guessing whipping the horse would make it try to go faster.

yeah - but if, as they claim, the whip doesn't hurt - why would the horse go faster?

[Annoyed Grunt]

Never been caught by the same camera either, I know its there I slow down.

Don't understand horse racing, but I'm guessing whipping the horse would make it try to go faster.

yeah - but if, as they claim, the whip doesn't hurt - why would the horse go faster?

If it doesn't hurt, why the restrictions? It has to hurt, hence it tries to run faster.

[TANGODANCER]

Imagine you're a horse. Somebody bungs a steel bridle in your mouth to make you do as you're told or you'll hurt your mouth, digs spurs in your flanks to make you run, and hits you with a whip if you're not going fast enough. Doesn't hurt because, being a horse, you can't tell anybody it does.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Imagine you're a horse. Somebody bungs a steel bridle in your mouth to make you do as you're told or you'll hurt your mouth, digs spurs in your flanks to make you run, and hits you with a whip if you're not going fast enough. Doesn't hurt because, being a horse, you can't tell anybody it does.

So that's why the long faces? (Yes, I'm aware that was apalling).

[TANGODANCER]

Imagine you're a horse. Somebody bungs a steel bridle in your mouth to make you do as you're told or you'll hurt your mouth, digs spurs in your flanks to make you run, and hits you with a whip if you're not going fast enough. Doesn't hurt because, being a horse, you can't tell anybody it does.

So that's why the long faces? (Yes, I'm aware that was apalling).

Neigh.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Imagine you're a horse. Somebody bungs a steel bridle in your mouth to make you do as you're told or you'll hurt your mouth, digs spurs in your flanks to make you run, and hits you with a whip if you're not going fast enough. Doesn't hurt because, being a horse, you can't tell anybody it does.

So that's why the long faces? (Yes, I'm aware that was apalling).

Neigh.

[William the White]

Come on, there's gambling industry to support...

[CAPSLOCK]

Aren't you the fella who wanted to keep mines open just to maintain employment?



Anyway, if these jockeys are so thick they can't avoid a ban, thats their problem


FWIW, the penalties want rethinking

Just disqualify the horse

[TANGODANCER]

Aren't you the fella who wanted to keep mines open just to maintain employment?

Mark Twain view: " A mine is just a hole in the ground with a fool at the bottom and a crook at the top".

[William the White]

Aren't you the fella who wanted to keep mines open just to maintain employment?

Mark Twain view: " A mine is just a hole in the ground with a fool at the bottom and a crook at the top".

Mark Twain was sometimes half right...

CAPS we are importing coal...

[CAPSLOCK]

We import horses too