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RIP to him
3 falls in a row and 4 falls in his 7 last starts. Not really in love with the game.
Poor horseThe swinging leg again… Not nice to watch and a totally clueless commentator. "Fingers crossed for him" he saif when they bypassed him 2nd time round. Fulltime Idiot
A horrible injury, poor lad. I hope he didn’t have to suffer too long.
RubyLight, I do think you are being unfair to the commentator, John Hunt today wasn’t it?
It was pretty obvious that it would be a fatal injury but nobody wants to hear ‘that’s a dead one’ in the middle of the race, and if he said nothing he may be thought to be uncaring by some on here. So I don’t really see what he could possibly do other than send ‘good wishes’. I like him – he often tweets good news if a horse gets up after a nasty fall in a race he’s called.
I know that he has good intentions, h.owever this one’s injury was just too obvious. He is better than the ATR commentators who tend to praise the high quality of the race without mentioning the fatal injured horse. But you can also expect them to say less than rather make false hopes.
Dickie has just been ‘deleted’ from the trainers website, but there’s nothing anywhere on it to say what happened. This seems so very cold and uncaring, so I’m hoping they just haven’t finished updating yet.
To those who think this went unacknowledged, the trainer did tweet on the same day starting ‘It is with a heavy heart..’and ending ‘RIP Henry’.
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