Horse racing’s image damaged again by cruel dead horse video – Wide World of Sports

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Horse racing’s image received another grievous blow on Wednesday (AEDT) when an Irish jockey apologised after a widely circulated video emerged of him straddling the corpse of a horse which had just suffered a cardiac arrest.
Rob James’ apology came a day after the leading Irish trainer he rides for, Gordon Elliott, was banned from entering runners in British races after he admitted to posing for a photo while sitting on the back of a dead horse that had just died of a heart…

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