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Further to my previous post reference visiting Kelso for the first time, I noted it was one of I believe very few courses that permit dogs. I’m aware that Fakenham does but do other members know of any others?
Hopefully none – letting animals other than horses into the racecourse area is a dangerous practice.
I was at a meeting at Muelheim in Germany last week, and to be honest, it was like Crufts! As with (I think) all German courses, dogs can be seen everywhere, although I think they have to be on a lead. I don’t keep count, but on average, I guess you’ll see about 20-30 dogs at a German racemeeting at least.
Darren – AngloGerman
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Did anyone see the carry on with that loose dog that chased a horse through a complex fence at Badminton Horse Trials on Saturday. Could have been really nasty. There are no words to describe those who let dogs loose at horse events.
Having said that there is a funny side to it. I was watching William Fox-Pitt come through the water at Belton one year and he was chased by a loose dog – his own, apparently he lets it go up the gallops with the horses and it matches strides with them.
Posted: 12 May 2009 19:55 Post subject: Dogs Allowed
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Did anyone see the carry on with that loose dog that chased a horse through a complex fence at Badminton Horse Trials on Saturday. Could have been really nasty. There are no words to describe those who let dogs loose at horse events
Yep, seen that. It could have been an absolute disaster and as much as i love dogs it really is about time that they were refused entry to this. It was very lucky that that horse was an old hand and took it in his stride the way he did.
My cousin was once riding work at York Racecourse (when it was still allowed) and a doberman went after the young two year old filly he was riding. It chased and snapped away at her until the filly just went buck mad and reared over backwards trapping my cousin underneath. How the hell he wasn’t killed i don’t know and he was lucky to walk away with just broken ribs and severe bruising. The filly was fine luckily albeit very shaken up. Nope, dogs and running horses do not mix well.We’ve had at least two "pursued by terrier" incidents in point-to-points this season, and they were both recorded in the comments in running. I had the second of these at Hackwood Park a week last Monday.
The other occurred somewhere in the West Midlands, I think. I do remember it got a "pursued by terrier (eventually took crashing fall)" comment, anyway, which made me giggle.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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Cannot for the life of me understand the complacency of the authorities allowing admission of dogs onto courses …………. or the idiocy of people who bring their dog along to a meet.
This was the incident of the canine "crashing fall" which was shown a couple of weeks back on ATR (or RUK?).
The commentator’s remark around 1:53 into the clip is a clear summation of his annoyance.Now that would be great for Dog Racing, Why not have a 3mile Chase.
I know a dog came out in a chase at Fakenham once and even climbed over the fence.
At Tabley dogs were present and well behaved,
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The commentator’s remark around 1:53 into the clip is a clear summation of his annoyance.PMSL!!
Vintage MacKenzie. That’s not annoyance, that’s his acid sense of humour.
For those of you trying to place the course, by the way, it’s Maisemore Park in Gloucestershire, from March 29th of this year, and the race was an Intermediate. Pagans Dancer’s comments in running in the
Loose-Leaf Update
a few days later were;
"Pagans Dancer
I Howe 33-1 (xnb, tt) 2 handlers; led 2; up to 7l clr w loose whippet (crashing fall 13) 9-12; hdd aft 3 out; sn wknd".
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Been reminded of the above incident in a Facebook chat with Irish Stamp this evening, what with us both heading off to the latest renewal of the same Maisemore Park fixture five days from now. We’ll be sure to report back if any squishing of hound beneath hooves ensues…
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Just a matter of time before the RSPCA call for a whippet ban
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Nice one, Centurion.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I went to Godstone PTP the Sunday before Cheltenham and couldn’t believe the number of dogs around, you couldn’t walk more than ten yards without stepping on one or getting caught up in a lead.
Slightly off topic but what was more concerning on my first PTP visit was the odds on offer.
One particular race saw the market open something like;
4/5
4/5
7/4
5/2
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and there were about another half a dozen runners trading between 3s and 10sIn nearly 30 years of betting I don’t think I’ve ever seen two odds on shots in the same race – let alone the proximity of the remainder.
Ginger would have had a heart attack !
Needless to say I’ll be there again for this Saturday’s meeting
Lee
Oooh, lucky you to have been at that fixture, Lee – I trust you got to see Carryonharry parading before the race held in his honour?
He’d have been dying to join in with the race proper, never mind any dogs doing so as well!
Per those prices – yep, that’s not entirely unheard of at a Point, and the bookies in some Areas of the country are (putting it delicately) less generous than others. The South East Area ones wouldn’t be the worst offenders (not when set against one particular track in East Anglia, at least), but pound for pound they’re not as competitive as many of those in the likes of Wessex, Devon & Cornwall and the South Midlands.
You mentioned the opening shows there – were the two favourites ultimately both sent off odds-on, though? That much at least would be unusually stingy for the locality, at least outside of a match!
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
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