Colour Vision

[chaos50]

Colour Vision, Ascot Gold Cup winner is now show jumping. This is a quote from a tweet.

Shame on you @HHShkMohd , after what he give you and your yard, his normal future is to be a horse in a nice pasture, showjumping is not his blood, respect his origins, respect him as a Ascot Gold Cup winner!!

Have to agree.

All comers, all ground, all beaten

[LostSoldier3]

I have to strongly disagree. Great to see him having an active stimulating retirement.

“Respect an Ascot Gold Cup winner” – what? Race wins are just a human concept – he’s a horse no different from any other. By all accounts he is doing very well as a show jumper, showing aptitude and enjoying his work. Crack on IMO, good to see.

[thewexfordman]

Fully agree lost soldier. The horse doesn’t know what he has won, might aswell have been a selling plate at pontefract for all the horse knows. If he seems happy then I don’t see a problem

[LD73]

There is an argument to be had that to dump a racehorse out in a field to spend all day maybe on its own or with a couple of other horses for the remainder of its days (anywhere between 20-30yrs) is in its own way cruel and not in a horses best interests.

When you consider a racehorse has always been used to a set routine of work/training and racing and being around people in a busy stable yard it is not every horse that can change into being left out in a field with nothing to do – re training of racehorses (be it for showjumping, being a hack or for educational purposes with people with disabilities) is a vital cog as it no doubt kepts them active in mind and body.

Not all horses are suited to it but all should be given the chance to pursue an active life once their racing days are over – for all we know Colour Vision may have been in a pasture previously and it simply may not have suited him and so it was decided to re-train him.

As long as he is healthy and enjoying what he is doing who are we to say he shouldn’t be doing it because of what he did as a racehorse – his origins were being in a routine as a trained equine from a yearling and whilst he is now taking up a new discipline the routine that goes with it would be pretty similar to what he has always known.

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