Risking controversy can I make some comments:
If you don't want pictures of horses with a gun held to their head being taken and published then stop going around racecourse with guns doing that. Remove the horse in the ambulance and deal with it with some privacy and after some reflection not in the heat of the moment.
The sport we love does not exist in a bubble and it has to be prepared to modify its behaviour to what society regards as the current norms of decency and care for the animals it races. It is simply not good enough to say we look after thousands of horses to the very highest standard and be seen to be dealing with a difficult problem like this.
The fact that we look after them to the highest standard must and should be a given and should not be trotted out as some sort of justification for this.
I'm not suggesting there are not circumstances where animals need to be put down but having seen the pictures I'm pretty convinced that isn't how to do it, but even if I was the point is that society isn't so changes need to be made.
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