PETA tell Aintree pub to show hobby horse racing instead of Grand National

Vegan activists have urged a pub not to show the Grand National. Instead they should put on some hobby horse racing.

PETA wants The Queens Arms near the famous Aintree racecourse to televise the barmy stick-based sport instead of the iconic horse race to be held on Saturday. They want punters to bet on 'willing, human racers' instead. The pub is popular with racegoers before the showpiece race every year. Since 2010, 29 horses have died from race-related causes at the Aintsree meeting. In 2019, 2,500 spectators flocked to Finland for the Finnish Hobbyhorse Championships. It is a sport where people ride wooden sticks stuffed with toy horses.