"You cannot force an unwilling horse to race. Especially in a contest as demanding as the National, the horse has to want to do what it is doing. The horses that run in the Grand National are lords of the animal kingdom. If they earn such a high destiny, what does it matter if there are a few casualties?
That is why I am always disappointed to read about the regular efforts to make the Grand National safer by reducing the threat from the fences. Without the threat, the race would be diminished. We do not want a pasteurised Grand National.
In order for the race to retain its glory and its terror, it is important that a horse should be killed most years and a jockey every ten years or so. The rest of us should not deplore the loss. We should salute the bravery."
Read that last paragraph again. He actually states that it is important that a jockey dies every ten years or so.
Perhaps Mr Anderson would like to bring back gladiators, so that he could salute their bravery.
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