{"id":63209,"date":"2024-04-15T10:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=63209"},"modified":"2024-04-15T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T10:53:56","slug":"65-horses-dead-as-dodos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/04\/65-horses-dead-as-dodos\/","title":{"rendered":"65 horses dead as dodo\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime racing horses<br \/>\nAll dead as dodo\u2019s<br \/>\nAintree the National<br \/>\nRacing for bets<br \/>\nPrime healthy animals<br \/>\nReal cocky jockeys<br \/>\nIt\u2019s all about money<br \/>\nAnd no doubt group debts<\/p>\n<p>Since the year 2000<br \/>\n65 horses have fallen<br \/>\nAnd died<br \/>\nThey are dead yea no more<br \/>\nBeautiful creatures made to jump fences<br \/>\nIt\u2019s like a battleground<br \/>\nSo let\u2019s explore<\/p>\n<p>Why do we do this<br \/>\nMake jumps even higher<br \/>\nForce them over distance<br \/>\nTo struggle and be<br \/>\nWasted and beaten and broken<br \/>\nAnd pushed too far<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the a grand National<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what we see<\/p>\n<p>Sweepstakes all over betting for gamblers<br \/>\nLoads of big money<br \/>\nLoads of sad days<br \/>\nHorses start healthy<br \/>\nJockeys start wealthy<br \/>\nBy the end there are causalities<br \/>\nThe annual phase<\/p>\n<p>Of killing behind doors<br \/>\nPrime souls legs broken<br \/>\nWorse still careers ended<br \/>\nThey just become<br \/>\nHopeless the knackers yard<br \/>\nWill be their testing ground<br \/>\nLife means so little<br \/>\nThe victims. Yes some<\/p>\n<p>Dead to the world<br \/>\nOn the flip of a gold coin<br \/>\nBroken and tortured and twisted and gone<br \/>\nSo many victims have been killed<br \/>\nIn the races<br \/>\nFor some it\u2019s a bet for others it\u2019s fun<br \/>\nFor the horses it\u2019s ugly it\u2019s torture it\u2019s rotten<br \/>\nDeath comes to them shot perhaps seemingly<br \/>\nThe bloody Grand National is killing so many<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a race too far and it shouldn\u2019t be<\/p>\n<p>Allowed to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime racing horses All dead as dodo\u2019s Aintree the National Racing for bets Prime healthy animals Real cocky jockeys It\u2019s all about money And no doubt group debts Since the year 2000 65 horses have fallen And died They are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/04\/65-horses-dead-as-dodos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[492,344,173,377,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-not-my-king-story","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-duty-of-care-was-never-there","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63210,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63209\/revisions\/63210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}