‘After reviewing the footage, The Director of Equine, Safety, and Welfare explained that GOLD DANCER (FR)’s action was typical of a 3-mile chaser in the final stages of a race’
That is a rather worrying and disturbingly off comment to me to be honest, from what I viewed from the TV pictures, as the horse got going again after the mistake, the gait of his left hind leg clearly looked wrong compared with his right hind leg and even the commentator clearly knew something was seriously amiss……….so what the actual fudge was that Director watching not to see that!