Grand National. Safer racing. Can it be done? Yes, but careful study needs to be done before any changes are made. Injury and fatality free racing. Can that be done? In the digital world perhaps, but not in live racing. In an article for BBC Sport Frank Keogh spoke with three former National Hunt jockeys,… Continue reading Grand National: Plotting the best course to safer racing
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A National institution that is neither grand nor great (UK)
The Grand National is not real racing, it's only sold that way to get millions of irregular punters interested, argues Paul Haigh (The Guardian) Every year we are invited to believe that the Grand National provides a wonderful shop window for racing, an advertisement for the sport that money on its own simply could not… Continue reading A National institution that is neither grand nor great (UK)