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Don’t ban horseracing. The sport gives the animals the best possible life

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Celebre d’Allen collapsed after jumping the final fence in Saturday 's Grand National .

It is a brutal but unavoidable fact that horses die in racing, but there is no point in pretending that horses do not die as a result of horse racing.

When a horse is unable to compete properly if, for example, it is too tired - it is a basic tenet of racing that he should be, to use the jargon, “pulled up” by his jockey (in other words the jockey removes him from the race).

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