the future is not looking good.

​The great privilege of my life is having been alive during the decades when National Hunt racing was at its peak of popularity. I am sure it has been spoken about in private for decades but the doom and gloom of what lies ahead of us in the future is now creeping into the columns of our racing journalists. Is there a future for National Hunt racing?
The problem has nothing to do, I believe, with the sport or its participants as governments of either hue receive billions into taxes off our endeavour, but the media’s insatiable appetite for controversy. Quite how the woke brigade emerged from the loopy side of life to mainstream acceptance is baffling, a topic that will excite sociologists for decades to come, no doubt. We live in times when one person objecting to any one thing can, through social media, raise an army in support of her or his sensitivities. 
If horse racing had not come to popularity through t.v. exposure back in the 1960’s, the sport would not have fizzled into the perception of the anti-everything-I-either-dislike or envy goblins of destruction. We have, in some ways, ridden the normal distribution wave; we were a quaint countryside sport, we rose to national prominence and are now falling towards the depths of the other side. During the days of Arkle, Desert Orchid, Kauto Star and others, we were looked upon as refreshment and, perhaps, with admiration. We walked amongst giants; the most graceful animal on the planet.
But then someone noticed that occasionally horses might die in pursuit of our entertainment. The one became an anti and built a campaign to ‘save the poor horses’, whilst having no answer as to what to do with the many thousands of horses who with no racing would no longer have a function in life. Even the non-committed to either side of the argument could see that simply turning them loose on national parks would be worse for their welfare than being cared-for by the humans who adore and worship them.
Yet the threat remains, and for reasons that might have little to do with issues over whether we should, in the less enlightened times we live in, make profit and sport from one of God’s creatures. Oh, read the Bible, God had little care for the creatures ‘He’ created, especially the fatted calves.  Net-zero is a threat that Racing Post journalists have yet to consider. Racehorses are transported the length and breadth of the country, not to mention by air to all parts of the world. Diesel is used to power horseboxes and in the next ten-years fossil fuels are to be phased-out. As things stand, electric lorries are not proving a suitable alternative to diesel. They take a devil of a long time to charge, there are not enough charging stations on the road network to accommodate them, and if electric trucks do become the only means of transporting horses from stables to racecourses and back again, how many trainers will want to keep horses standing in lorries while they are charging? And, of course, electric vehicles are prone to catching on fire, emitting toxic gases, especially when being charged, and it is advised no vehicle is charged to capacity or allowed to drop below 20%. And electric trucks are prone to topple over.
Although racehorses are fed on cubes or nuts, these comprise mainly oats or barley and environmentalists believe crops should only be grown for human consumption. Grazing animals are thought to be one of the major contributors to global warming and as such should be allowed to become extinct. 
Fifteen-minute cities will also prove problematic for activities like equestrian sport to flourish long into the future. It is proposed that everyone live in a fifteen-minute city and people will require a permit to journey anywhere outside of their home city. The long-term future of the countryside is to return it to nature, with no one, except elites, I would surmise, allowed to live outside of the cities.
It all sounds futuristic and a bit mad but it is all in the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’, which, without publicity or referendum, all the major countries of the world have signed-up to. Boris Johnson signed us up for it in 2019.
What is happening at the moment, and for the past few years, is that the ‘blub-blubs’, Animal Rising, Extinction Rebellion, Black Lives Matters’, have all been facilitated and encouraged by government agencies to protest, riot and disrupt, in order for more and more people to be seduced by their nonsensical approach to life. They are being allowed to seed society with misinformation in preparation for what is to come.
There will be no place for equestrian sport by 2050, as there will be no place for pets or any kind of farming of animals, with only chemical-free growing of crops allowed. There will not be enough food grown this way, of course, as was the case before pesticides were used to bulk-up yields, which is why the eating of insects and artificial meat is being given prominence in the media.
You will not like it but the truth is slowing coming out; covid was intended to shrink the world population, net-zero is about getting people out of cars and into driverless Ubers, fifteen-minute cities is about controlling people. And you know what, there is not a darn thing we can do about it except civil disobedience, which is the real reason more prisons are planned to be built. Them versus us, and already a whole lot of us are on their side. So, yes, our sport is doomed and we need to enjoy what is left to us before the grace of the racehorse is lost forever.