Submitted on Thursday 4th April 2013
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Petition to ban the Grand National
Ban the Grand National
For too long, the cruelty of the race has been blithely ignored by the horse-racing authorities and the race-going public.
It shouldn’t be like this. Sport, after all, is meant to be an uplifting activity, reflecting the quest for excellence and heroism in competition. But there is nothing remotely inspirational or heroic about forcing horses to gallop round a dangerous course at high speed and risk sustaining painful, even fatal falls.
In the Grand National alone, ten horses have been killed since 2000. And last year, the Cheltenham race meeting was overshadowed by the death of five horses. The first day of racing this year has already resulted in the first 'casualty'.
There is only one way to stop the suffering of the horses and that is to ban the Grand National. If racing enthusiasts truly respected these noble, majestic creatures, they would be unable to tolerate any longer such needless cruelty masquerading as sport.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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