Trial 1 @ Menangle yesterday
Watch this, in particular from just before they enter the straight all the way through to the line. http://www.trotstv.com.au/?id=5631 The horse that ends up finishing last in the Trial copped somewhere between 30 & 35 whip shots (tried counting them) from around about the entrance to the stretch & the shadows of the post. The stretch is 350m long. Inside the final furlong, unless my eyes deceive me, it wore some well & truly heavy ones and it wore them in rapid succession. Interested to hear what this Forum's resident animal welfare advocates think of that effort.
I'm guessing I'll not hear much because someone opening up on a horse like that in a Trial doesn't have quite the same air of intrigue & skullduggery that their chosen subject of drug cheats and anti-therapeutics does. Yesterday was just a damned Trial. That was shameful, absolutely bloody shameful.
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