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Broke his pelvis and couldn’t move both hind legs, so you have to assume he has been put down in the X-Country Chase at Punchestown today.
A six year old maiden unraced under Rules and well beaten in four PTPs agains some more experienced runners for this type of race.
Not only that it looked horrible, but no excuses for running him there.
May he rest in peace
I have not seen the race. The horse’s form was clearly moderate, hence his SP of 50/1.
However, there were two more runners priced at 50/1, one at 66/1 and another with an SP of 100/1. Should these horses not have been allowed to run either? The bookmakers thought two of them had even less chance.
Cork, it’s a difference between being not to able win a race and not able to compete at all.
Peter Maher’s horses for instance are always perfectly prepared for this kind of race, no matter what their prices are. He does very well in these type of races for local farmers, I think.And a price of 50/1 could have easily been 250/1 or 500/1 on the exchanges. We all know that Irish bookmakers rarely make any gifts towards the punters.
His Betfair SP was 109. Other horses were 94, 104 and 115.
He was a no hoper – but so were at least three others.
I think you need some experience in order to jump Ruby’s Double. That’s not just a plain fence.
Don’t think that Bonny Dazzler ha too much either having finished 100 lengths behind. But, Michel’s Pick for instance, another 50/1 shot, had completed twice over the Punchestown banks and once over the GN fences. Huge difference between him and the deceased four-race maiden and yet the same price.
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