Apologies for the spade-work, but I thought this question musta been asked before so I used the old
search button before starting a new one & lo-and-behold: there it was.
Anyway, it's
horse racing for me too. If you take the gambling away you're basically left with a contest to see which equine quadruped with an anorexic Mick riding him can outrun other equine quadrupeds with similar unfed Paddies onboard. I'm a pretty general sports fan & will watch most things, but the gee-gees aren't for me.
In the days before satellite TV I was always well gutted when "Grandstand" or "World of Sport" was dedicated to it. I used to live in fear of the words
"& now the 2.30 from Haydock". Even now Channel 4 still leaves the tests for some poxy 4 furlong gubbins!
& what's with the random killing of horses too? I don't know if there's a veterinarian equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath, but it sure doesn't include horses. Some poor nag gets a slight case of the sniffles & out comes the 12-bore!