Underdogs

During one of the largest world’s horse racing Grand National held in the region of Mersyside at Aintree near Liverpool, two horses were killed (more on the Grand National here).
This ironic thing was that one of these horses were favorite to win the whole race. His name was 'Synchronised'. Name of the second horse was 'According to Pete. His owner said he would never put any of his horses in The National again. 'According to Pete' was treated as a member of the family, was brought up in a small barn at his family home. No wonder that the owner was devastated so much after the death of his pet.
In general, sources say that about 600 million people worldwide watched the race and saw the tragedy. Animal rights activists almost immediately 'rushed' to the organizers of the event. This is confirmed that over the last 5 years up to 812 horses died on British race courses.
The winner of this year's Grand National 'Neptune Cologne', whose owner had lost before his other favorite horse in 1998 and after the incident, he got a heart attack. The winning horse was almost not reported to the event for security reasons. Nobody knows what the horse feels just before the race, or something wrong with him or not.
The fact is that among the 40 horses that competed in the race, only 15 of them had completed the race and a year ago, 19 horses had got to the finish. These figures show the difficulty of the track and some obstacles. The race this year was to be more secure but it did not bring the desired result.