“Punchestown on Saturday. Ted Walsh calls the horse that refused a jump a ‘dirty rotten cowardly so and so’ then said ‘a hiding wouldn’t be good enough for him’ to which the other commentator sniggered and said it’s a nasty thing to do! @RTEsport are you condoning animal abuse?”
Punchestown on Saturday. Ted Walsh calls the horse that refused a jump a 'dirty rotten cowardly so and so' then said 'a hiding wouldn't be good enough for him' to which the other commentator sniggered and said it's a nasty thing to do! @RTEsport are you condoning animal abuse? pic.twitter.com/ogCeuToGAj
— Ethical Farming Ireland (@ethicalfarmIE) May 2, 2022
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How do you make the jump to this being RTE’s problem?
I think horses shouldn’t be made race but that’s just a personal view. Let the little jockeys run with their colours on.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
Can’t say I agree with horse racing, sadly it’s a big thing.
Lots of money in it, which does attract a lot of cruel people.
I find it funny it the “what is goin on way”. He is acting like the horse knowingly committed a dirty foul or something
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People need to calm the fuck down. We have people who do not watch or have any interest in racing taking these comments way out of proportion. He is saying it in jest Jesus Christ. He is not actually suggesting the horse to be given a hiding.
Although I believe Ted should pick his words more carefully as the anti racing crowd will jump on any thing at this stage.
It was a nasty thing for the horse to do, to duck out like that at the last second considering it jumped the same fence already.
It gave zero warning signs that it wasn’t happy to jump it again as it approached the fence as well. It’s very clearly relaxed and confident the whole way along. Horses aren’t stupid. It knew full well what it was doing dropping the shoulder there at the last moment.
What Ted Walsh said amounts to the horse deserving disciplining for behaviour like that, as the jockey could’ve been seriously hurt. Which is fair enough and the wording is no different to saying a bold/cheeky child needs a hiding/kick up the hole/wooden spoon, it’s not to be taken literally it’s a turn of phrase.
There’s plenty of things that need changing in the horse racing industry but inventing things to get up in arms about only serves to cheapen the animal rights movement.
It just makes it clear that you don’t know anything about horses, especially race horses, if you can’t see that the horse knew well what it was doing in this instance.
The entire racing industry is built on animal abuse. Despite what the racing zealots might try and tell you, horses do not love to race
I’m pretty sure he was joking.