” What is the obsession with the white hurdles?
They are also used at Leopardstown, right? Looking back at this year’s DRF (both days) I found out that there was only one faller over them a horse called Zillow ridden by a very inexperienced jockey. How come Irish trained horses have fewer jumping issues? “
The Irish have been using them for longer and those in Britain are slightly different
Two Champion Hurdle winners fell in last year’s race – both clipping the top of the hurdle and just failing to react.
With the old hurdles, if you flicked the top of the birch, that would bend but the hurdle would stay in place…the padded ones bounce back. Brighterdaysahead clipped the hurdle just before Constitution Hill last year and it was bouncing back as the latter jumped it
I’ve just seen lots of very similar falls since the new hurdles were put in, including at Kempton recently