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The horse has it’s first run over hurdles, it becomes tailed off when leaving the back straight and is badly tailed off with two to jump on very heavy ground. Why do you have to push it over the last?
Well, obviously you might want to get it killed. The horse just took a very heavy fall and was apparently okay. Why didn’t the jockey get any punishment at all? It is quitw weird to ban someone for oner or two extra whips, but not for putting it on the ground when about a furlong behind.
It’s ridiculous to ask a very tired horse on it’s debut to finish the race in that kind of conditions. Let’s see how long it takes until we see the horse running again.Ruby I didn’t see this but have commented on the Welsh ride which sums up my thoughts on this sort of thing. I owned a horse that ran in the Sussex National a few years ago and the horse was pressed by the jockey to jump the last the horse was obviously over tired and needed pulling up, the horse had never got this trip in the past. The horse fell. I left the owners enclosure and walked down the course to catch the horse and met the stupid jockey on his way back. I did give him a real telling off, his answer was that he had to jump the fence in case one of the others fell and he would get 4th place. There should be a system for fining and bans for pressing an overly tired horse.
Obiwankenobi: I’m not talking about the Welsh National at all.
Just look at the result of the first race there. It wasn’t even a question of 4th place money since there were plenry of finishers ahead of this horse.
That’s why I’m so speechless about the fact that this ride went unmentioned through the racing papers.Problem we have here Ruby is if the horse you are on about is
Nights Watch
ridden by Robert Dunne then the ATR replay doesn’t actually show what happened.Post race comments doe say he weakened rapidly and took a crashing fall at the last like you say though.
It must be a difficult decision for a jockey to pull up a horse a fence from the finish. Much easier decision to make if the horse tires earlier in the race. If the horse manages to clamber over the fence and finish, it looks a better outcome for horse and jockey. I’d assume his thinking is, it’s worth a try. That may be the wrong decision, and clearly was in this case, but if it hadn’t have fallen….we’d never have noticed.
I don’t agree with your statement that the jock may want to kill the horse though! What on earth makes you think that?!I didn’t seriously suggest that he was trying to kill it. But if you take notice where the horse was with three to jump and then with two to jump, the only logical thing that comes to mind is that the horse should be or was pulled up.
Especially on heavy ground and even more on its first hurdles start. That’s what makes this matter look so ugly. And you should be allowed to describe the jockeys decision to jump the last flight as cruel and careless.
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