The British Horseracing Authority have vigorously defended its whip rules and denied claims horses are in pain
The British Horseracing Authority have vigorously defended their whip rules following the publication of a column in the Times on Wednesday (£) which claims horses are regularly “thrashed” and “in pain”.
Matthew Syed’s article comes under the headline ‘Whipping horses is ruining racing – it must be banned’, in which he concludes: “It is in the interests not only of horses but of racing itself to consign the use of the device for the purposes of increasing speed to the scrapheap of history. It is time to ban the whip.”
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