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Old 19th February 2011, 16:47   #4
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The whole purpose of that other video was pointless about horses being whipped. The jockey and owners can have severe punishments for hitting too many times, not correctly in the horses stride, with excessive force and loads of other perimeters.

Every horse is looked at after a race by a vet and stewards etc, and if a horse is found to have any sort of injury relating to the whip, they will get come down on like a ton of bricks.

Not sure whats "ftw" about 2 horses dying from electrocution. The two horses died because they had steel shoes on, and on the wet grass, conducting the electricity very well from the underground cable, and the rest of the horses had aluminium shoes on.

Lucky no humans died as well, due to rubber shoe soles.

On a lighter note, I have been caught by our electric fence many times, you are on the floor before you know it!
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