LITTLE JOSH WAS put down after breaking his shoulder at Aintree today.
“We can sadly confirm that Little Josh broke a shoulder in the Topham Chase. He was treated immediately but needed to be humanely put down,” A tweet from Aintree racecourse reads.
Jockey Sam Twiston-Davies was unseated from the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained horse during the race over the Grand National course. Ted Walsh saw his mount Battlefront die of a heart attack yesterday at the course.
More to follow
Would a burger joke be insensitive?!
It’d be in-original and old.
Very sad. I hope big Josh is not too upset.
Poor horse.
Two horses dead and the grand national hasn’t even started
I can see an increased output on ‘beef’ lasagne over the next few days!
Ha ha very good
Another bit of ammunition for the tree huggers! I hope none of these people drive, think of all the insects they’re killing!
Im impressed that you’ve made a link between people who care about the well being of a large intelligent animal,bred and now dead all for entertainment and gambling and tree huggers!! Nevermind driving i hope u dont breathe oxygen,when those trees are gone so are we ;)
Cows pigs and sheep are bred for slaughter…. What purpose do horses have in a modern world if not racing? They are very well looked after, and love to run and jump, it’s in their nature. Deaths are unfortunate, but very rare, given the sheer number of races that are run, 28 deaths out of over 45000 runners, about 0.05%.
Humans are the dominant species on the planet, deal with it.
Cows,pigs and sheep are bred for eating among other things. I dont know about you but i class eating as neccesary for living. I wouldnt class racing animals as neccesary just for entertainment and gambling. Why do animals have to have a purpose to you, in that case what purpose does a bear have? We cant race it,so might as well kill then eh?
Oh and im aware horse fatalities are low in racing but they are not in the grand national,deal with as you say;)
This wasn’t the grand national. Horse racing is a source of massive employment, and therefore income for governments… Bears aren’t really in your face though are they? They tend to keep away from human contact. What would you suggest to do with these animals that would have no further use is racing was banned?
We could always become vegetarian…
We could just treat them like any other animals and leave them be?
With the sheer numbers of horses around, there would have to be a cull
then so be it..
And of the horses that get injured running around in the wild? Just let them die in pain?
You anti racing hippies don’t have a clue that the horses actually enjoy racing! The weight of the jockey doesn’t bother them, they’re quite strong animals, carrying less than 10% of their body weight. Look at Sprinter Sacre today, jumping and prancing around before and after the race with Geraghty on his back! Look at the horses who’s jockeys fall off, if they didn’t like it, they’d stop no? The whip only makes a noise, I could whip you with one and you wouldn’t feel it!
Sorry i going to respond to you until you used the word “hippies”! You sound like an american drill sargeant from 60′s, “cut those sideburnes boy”
I watch full metal jacket lady night
Fecking iPhone!
You could have specified in the headline that it was a horse.
The fact aintree was mentioned kinda gave that away
Are children not allowed into Aintree?
Who would call their son (or daughter for that matter) little josh? Clearly it was about the horse…
Any child is generally little, anyway poor horse, thankfully it’s not a child.
If it was a child they’d have said his first name and surname. Not just call him little josh
You could be a horse Justin Credible.
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Ignore her shes a troll,a very bad troll
Local McDonalds be chuffed :p
Tony Soprano will be very upset…
:( too horrible !