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The horse was Karadin and it shattered a pastern a few yards before the line. The jockey tried to walk it over the line but ehn jumed off. The strewards banned him for 14 days for improper riding. A very sad event.
The jockey got a 14 day ban for that.<br>He appeared to attempt to get Karadin across the line for second, after it had broken down with a shattered pastern. Not nice to watch. An unfortunate misjudgement on the jockey’s part.<br>Unfortunately, Karadin had to be destroyed :(
Apparantly, according to the RP, Karadin stumbled across the line for a minor honor.  I hope the jock enjoys his 4th place prize money :angry: <br>I don’t think he will do that again, and should learn from the experience that the welfare of a suffering horse takes precidence over any potential prize money.  Who knows, sometimes people just don’t think.  I don’t think this claimer thought about it at the time.  I’ll put it down to an unfortunate misjudgement.
(Edited by Racing Daily at 12:39 pm on Aug. 8, 2006)
I didn’t see the incident but it sounds to me like; "Damned if you do, & damned if you don’t"<br>After all, who pays his wages?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysI know all the smaller jocks that ride for the smaller stables are expected to get the best possible placing Purwell. It’s their bread and butter.<br>But there is an ethical border that should not be crossed. I’m personally surprised that Mr Quinn didn’t get 21 days or more, but I suppose we all make mistakes.<br>If you saw the stationary horse’s legs buckling under the weight of the jock on board, you would probably also take a view that there is a line that should not be crossed (no pun intended)
It was a sickening sight. I didn’t see the horse break down but glanced at the TV and saw him quite clearly stumbling over the line, thinking he was suffering from a heart attack. From what I remember it looked as though Quinn was still riding him, and he wasn’t rushing to dismount by the look of it either. It’s hard to imagine he would purposely keep riding an injured horse out like that, but a suspension was the best thing in the situation IMO, with 14 days being about right.
Aye Mesh, I saw the race as well and also had it down as a heart attack to start with (not the spooking at the crowd I think the TV coverage first had it down as).
I suppose Robert Quinn was trying to do what he thought was the right thing by trainer DC Turner, not a regular visitor to the winner’s enclosure by any means (only winner this season came when several other rivals fell over themselves to gift his outsider a hurdle win at Abbot) and who under normal circumstances would probably still have been most grateful for the £250-odd fourth place prizemoney.
It didn’t look at all good, but like several here I’m inclined to put it down to misjudgment rather than anything more nefarious. It might have been a chastening / uncomfortable enough experience for the lad to be seen to have persevered too long with a stricken horse right in front of the entire crowd present.
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