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Bizarre doesn’t even begin to describe this Hunter Chase. Not exactly a great advert for the sport..
The winning rider received a 12 day ban. He was left on his own after the three other horses had either fallen or pulled up. His horse was utterly exhausted and could barely raise a walk, never mind a gallop. Yet he still asked the horse to jump the last fence. Somehow he managed to clamber over the obstacle but it was a dreadful look.
What on earth was the jockey thinking? You wouldn’t do that running for 50K let alone 2.5K
I noticed that the positional graphic disappeared in shame after they went from 2 runners to just 1!
Incredible scenes. Poor horse, I hope this never happens again. Once again 12 days is not a ban really hurting the rider.
Just watched the replay, that’s a disgrace, the jockey should get an extremely lengthy ban and a massive fine for that.
I didn’t see it and RacingTv appear to have removed the replay.
If the rest had fallen, why didn’t the jockey just walk the horse until it had fully recovered before trying to jump anymore?
There was also an incident at the second last fence.
A horse fell at it on the first circuit. It looked like he caused a dent in the fence. This was mentioned by the commentator on the second circuit, when the favourite made a mistake.
Then on the final circuit, the favourite refused from out of nowhere when seeming to be going well and with the race at his mercy.
I have to wonder if the horse was distracted by the damage to the fence. Should it have been dolled off, like fences are when a guard rail is broken?
A very unsatisfactory race, anyway.
At least three national newspapers have reported the incident.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/jockey-ban-fakenham-tired-horse-36865504.amp
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