"Gamble, Violation, Disgrace"

Concerning the British Grand National steeplechase, the National Equine Defence League wrote the National Hunt Committee as follows: "The length of the course and number and formation of obstacles are wholly unreasonable. . . . Overstrained and ruptured animals could not 'improve the breed.' . . . We denounce this race as a mad gamble, a gross violation of the law against cruelty to animals, a national disgrace."

After this year's Grand National, the horses Drin and Swift Rowland had to be destroyed (TIME, April 6). In 1930, Derby Day III fell and died. In 1929 one horse, Stort, broke his leg. There were no accidents in 1928 and 1927; in 1926 one horse, Lone Hand, fell and died.

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