28.04.2021 Pontefract 5:00
🔴R.I.P King of tomorrow
Only 3 years old.

This horse is CLEARLY VERY LAME and has "gone wrong" as they say, yet the jockey silvestre de sousa continued to race the horse to the finish!!! Once crossing the line in 2nd the jockey then dismounted.
WHY was the horse not immediately pulled up and dismounted? Imagine running at 35mph for quite a distance with a broken foot/leg, imagine the pain and suffering.

➡️As a follow up from the recent MP’s letters and report and after the terrible weekend of equine fatalities - horses being raced over 4 miles in warm weather resulting in one horse collapsing in front of the cameras (they didn’t manage to hide than one!) and dying from heat exhaustion and several others requiring treatment, now is very much the time to keep the pressure up to get Welfare taken away from racing control to an independent body. There are a number of suspected further fatalities over this last weekend, possibly as many as 8 including Articulum, Wetlands and Claud and Goldie. There were 32 deaths (minimum) in March 2021.

However the silence on this wholesale slaughter that happens on almost a daily basis is deafening from the main welfare charities - the RSPCA and World Horse Welfare, who do not deserve donations and legacies for ignoring the plight of racehorses. All animals matter!

If you are upset/distressed or angered by the constant carnage on the racetracks, the lack of action by the BHA in terms of welfare then let us make our feelings known to these two main charities, who have done nothing meaningful except offer the odd placatory sentence, by sending the following letter:-

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RSPCA (England & Wales) Animal Aid Pontefract Racecourse Ban Bloodsports

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