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Thanks for sharing MissWoodford nice to see him succeeding in his second career
Vf x
Sadly a prime example of the Gold Cup breaking horses , glad he’s retired in one piece , I do wonder if Rachel regrets winning so emphatically that day ?
Agree HDLG. I suppose it is easy for us armchair jockeys to say but I think the adrenaline kicked into overdrive that day. There was no need to win by so far and subject the horse to such a hard race.
“Sadly a prime example of the Gold Cup breaking horses , glad he’s retired in one piece , I do wonder if Rachel regrets winning so emphatically that day ?”
I doubt it. It’s not like she leathered him. Watching the replay, she starts to ride just before two out when all the jockeys are getting to work. After the last she keeps her head down, rides to the line and gives him two cracks, I think, on the way. Ok maybe she should have been aware that Minella Indo was dropping away quickly but she would have looked a right dipstick if she’d dropped her hands, lost momentum and MI had rallied past her up the hill, or if she’d been gawking over her left shoulder and something else was coming from the clouds on her right.
The camera stays on the line for several seconds as the beaten horses finish, then pans back to A Plus Tard, who is still cantering. He then slackens to a trot, head up, ears pricked, and eventually pulls up at the picket fence where the photographers are. Then when the other jockeys ride up to congratulate Rachel he’s milling about with the other horses, ears pricked, snatching at the bit. He’s not exactly on his knees after a journey to the abyss. I think the breakage happened at Haydock- didn’t he have some sort of shipping fever that kicked off some kind of immune mediated thing? He didn’t go a yard that day and was wrong all season. It’s possible that’s what affected him long term, like Flyingbolt and his brucellosis, perhaps slightly hastened by the fact that he is now of an age when you would expect a bit of a decline to start any.
I think the autocorrect has done you there VF!
Lovely tribute to one of my old favourites. Great to see him retiring sound
https://www.davidpipe.com/2014-02-27-07-37-23-1/5835-ramses-de-teillee-retires
Yes a nightmare at times.
Was hoping he be retired after watching his run over the weekend.Vf x
Thanks for sharing that article Tonge. David Pipe always seems like a good egg. I know people say oh he is not a patch on his father as a trainer etc but he seems thoughtful and kind to his horses.
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