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Australian jumps racing is in the doldrums and thanks to events this week looks dead and buried. If you think events surrounding this year’s National were bad then take a look at the article and images from Warrnambool and the time honoured Grand Annual held yesterday.
I’ve spoken to people who were on course already and one assures me the fence being jumped is eight feet high. There may be some eventers at the door of his trainer very soon. I believe the member of the crowd who took the photo was paid AU$6000.
I thought they had banned jumps racing in Australia?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways
Epic horse is epic!!!1!
I think Banna Strand is a pretty cool guy. eh jumps on humans and doesn’t afraid of anything.
In all honesty though, the course designer is in for a spanking after that balls-up…
Epic horse is epic!!!1!
I think Banna Strand is a pretty cool guy. eh jumps on humans and doesn’t afraid of anything.
In all honesty though, the course designer is in for a spanking after that balls-up…
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" three-metre fence into the croud (sic)"
Crikey I just read the byline under the photo. The press really suck on a global scale these days.
" three-metre fence into the croud (sic)"
Crikey I just read the byline under the photo. The press really suck on a global scale these days.
On RTE radio news on Tuesday their sports report stated that John Higgins broke down in tears after winning the World Championship because he was thinking about his father Alex Hurricane Higgins who died earlier that year from cancer.
" three-metre fence into the croud (sic)"
Crikey I just read the byline under the photo. The press really suck on a global scale these days.
On RTE radio news on Tuesday their sports report stated that John Higgins broke down in tears after winning the World Championship because he was thinking about his father Alex Hurricane Higgins who died earlier that year from cancer.
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In finding out more about the race in question, I came across the a feature article in
Adelaide Today
, a mainstream online news publication, which begins thus:
HORSE-RACING types are a rare breed. They have allowed the world to pass them by in the past 100 years, insisting that the so-called Sport of Kings remains an antiquated salute to the past.
Training techniques and stables may be hi-tech versions of yesteryear, but there are elements of the thoroughbred industry that are gobsmacking in their barbarity.
Jumps racing is one such example – a throw- back to the Middle Ages that should have been eradicated decades ago.
Wedge:
fat end of.
Time:
Australia now, UK in 20 years time.
On Youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCYSvqFw … r_embedded
I was impressed with the rodeo that was posing as the first race at Ffos Las last night.
I see Adelaide Now is using the Fox News "follow asinine statement with a question mark" technique to create headlines.
Is jumps racing on its knees after this horrific incident at Warrnambool?
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/sup … 6050919142
No, no it isn’t. This accident could have happened during a flat race, where the crowd is equally close to the action. After all, animal rights protesters seem to find their wayonto
the course easily enough. It’s difficult to prevent this one-in-a-million situation.
So there is a run off from the main track, with an 8ft brush fence (may as well be 6ft, being that it is a flexi-larch type of thing) between a charging horse and a crowd of racegoers?
That course designer needs to be charged with reckless endangerment.
2 from 11 finished? Are the fences brick walls?
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