Do you think more coverage of the waiting french butchers vans would have helped? I agree the coverage was a bit welfair heavy but 99% of people who watch the National aren't hardened horse people who see death on a daily or weekly basis. They need all that fluff to get them through the usual horrors of seeing beautiful young animals being overexerted and killed for light entertainment and corporate advertising...sorry 'sport'.LeTiss wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2017 7:29 pmI just wanted to say how shit the ITV coverage was.
Ed Chamberlain constantly going on about dismounting the horses and watering them down, and how wonderful that was. Then telling everyone all the horses are safe and sound, how wonderful that was.
It was a program tailor made for today's snowflake generation
What's so wrong anyway with appealing to a family audience for a few days a year? Do you want to deny them of that so you can watch even more hardcore horse on horse action, like we do every other day of the year? The Grand National is a National Treasure because it's one of the few races that's truely inclusive. We Brits love a good family day out (personally, I don't) and 95% of racing certainly isn't that.
These 'snowflakes' might not be your type but the horse racing economy and it's traditions would be a lot poorer without them.
I'm not going to bicker about this LeTiss, I know you need to vent sometimes... and you know I do to. Vive la difference!
