‘HE SHOULD HAVE PULLED UP… HE JUST DIDN’T.’” — and what followed was painful, brutal, heartbreaking. Toby McCain-Mitchell kept driving, kept forcing, kept pushing a horse that was already spent, trembling, breaking down beneath him. Step by step, the animal was dragging itself forward, struggling, hurting, clearly done — yet still made to continue. You could almost feel the exhaustion, the strain, the silent suffering… until it finally collapsed hard at the last fence, its body giving in after being pushed beyond its limit. And the punishment? ONLY 10 DAYS. JUST 10 DAYS. For a moment many are calling cruel, senseless, and deeply disturbing — a race that turned into something far darker, where one horse paid the price in pain, fear, and total exhaustion.
A Grand National jockey has been banned after forcing his tired horse to continue in the showpiece race – before it fell at the final fence. Toby McCain-Mitchell, 24,…