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Article: Alliance with unspeakable turns cruel spotlight on epitome of endeavour
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- April 2, 2000
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IT WAS just a paragraph or two in the Racing Post, but to anybody
with half a brain in racing it should have been the wake-up call
from hell. The report said that an organisation called Animal Aid
are to launch Horse Racing Awareness Week targeting the Grand
National, which they describe as the "epitome of animal abuse".
I don't know who are behind Animal Aid, but I trust that they are
not linked in any way to those who sabotage hunts and threaten
animal-testing laboratories. Mostly, I suppose, they seek to garner
attention from headline-grabbing statements and picture
opportunities. Just like New Labour.
Be assured, however, that unlike our political leaders, many of