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Actually, Artic Weather, Ballyday Star, Brandy Harbour (GB), Cursed, Dammit, Diverge (GB), Mortal, Strategically.
RIP to you all.
These are all very sad of course, but am particularly sad to see Mortal’s name on here as he’d become a favourite of mine. I knew he’d pulled up lame in the La Touche Cup, but did not know he was a fatality.
It has been a grim few weeks for racehorse losses. RIP to them all.
Thanks for posting these lists Ekbalco.
Incredible to lose three horses over the Punchestown banks. Especially when they had no form over that sort of course and the race is run at a rather sedate pace.
RIP to all of them
“Especially when they had no form over that sort of course”.
What is the meaning behind this comment Ruby?
If they don’t run in these types of races, then horses will accumulate no form at all, will they?
Mortal had plenty of past good cross-country form at Cheltenham.
Who was the third horse lost over the banks Ruby? I’m aware of Ballyday Star and Mortal.
Artic Weather, Mortal, Ballyday Star.
Then Vital Island who won two days earlier was a NR on Saturday due to an injury. I wonder where he got that from.
Mortal was also supposed to run a third time on Saturday, but he was also withdrawn on Saturday. Guess he was already dead after being pulled up twice in the space of three days.
Ballyday Star couldn’t even finish within ten lengths of the winner in Maiden Points.
Surely a run over the Banks is the more easier option.Thanks for the reply Ruby, but I don’t think some of that information is correct.
Artic Weather ran over regulation fences at Punchestown, not over the banks.
Mortal was not pulled up twice at Punchestown. Before what proved to be his final race on 27 April, he previously ran on 2 April.
Thanks for the information, Marlingford. I thought the Hunters Chase for the Bishopscourt Cup was also a Banks race since it is targeted by the likes of Peter Maher, Philip Rothwell and so on who usually have loads of runners over the Punchestown Banks.
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