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Do we actually know that horses are as badly affected by the "low sun syndrome" as humans are?
Quote: from Drone on 9:58 pm on Jan. 28, 2007[br] All being well that will be a thing of the past when ‘new’ Donny opens. Looking forward to it.
You and me both.
Quote: from Venusian on 10:06 pm on Jan. 28, 2007[br]Do we actually know that horses are as badly affected by the "low sun syndrome" as humans are?<br>
A very good question. Horses’ eyesight is monochrome and certainly isn’t as ‘binocular’ as ours i.e. forward facing so it’s quite possible that glare from the sun will not effect their vision as much as it does us. And again I suppose it’s possible that they may preferentially use the eye on the side ‘shadowed’ by the head when subjected to a low sun. They are flight animals after all with eyes designed to give a wide angle of vision, at the expense of the three dimensional, ‘depth of field’ but low angle of vision facilty we have.
Bit of research there for someone, if it hasn’t already been done.
On the Racing UK channel the on-air pundits/experts came up with the suggestion that something had happened over the past few years, obviously alluding to global warming, and as a consequence the sun has been setting in an unforcastable manner.
Sometimes the mind boggles.
All in all as stated earlier, the irony was they took so long to sort it out the sun had gone in anyway, but once again Cheltenham were made to look very stupid. We were just waiting for them to say "ok sun’s gone in -as you were".
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