article_snippet: Click here to read chief sports writer Read Martin Samuel's column from October 2013: 
article_snippet: Sport is not about driving horses to horses deaths .
article_snippet: Sheik Mohammed (right) takes part in an endurance race in the Jordanian desert .
article_snippet: Endurance races in the Middle East can be brutal with distances of 100 miles a day, covered at high speed, common.
highlights_snippet: Read Martin Samuel's damning verdict on endurance racing .