grand national 6 April 2008
I didn’t back a horse in the Grand National yesterday. Over the years I have gone off anything but flat racing, to be honest. I hate to see the horses fall and worse is when they have to be put down because of it. I grew up in Galway in the west of Ireland and it has a famous week-long racing festival in july/august. When we were kids we’d walk through the fields to get there and from time to time you’d see a dead horse by the course, put down after a fall – always sad. So, the Grand National is too much for me these days with its high and risky fences. Did all of the horses make it home yesterday?
