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Another horrible mistake at a water jump, this time Editeur du Gite at Cheltenham. The horse stopped fairly quickly and I hope he is OK. If so, he was lucky to avoid a serious injury.
What is the point of Cheltenham’s water jump? It is out in the country, so the idea it provides some sort of spectacle for the crowd is clearly nonsense.
Water jumps are absent from Ireland and we should get rid of them here, once and for all.
Agree CAS, what an ugly sight that was. I really hope Editeur du Gite is uninjured.
Fully agree with you, CAS. Jockey asked him to jump two more fences and only after he hit another one he decided to pull him up. It could have been quite nasty and if it’s not a jump in front of the stands I don’t see the point having it at all. The water jump at Newbury (in front of the stands) has been less problematic, if I’m right.
It reminded me of the time Midnight Shadow was killed at Doncaster.
To my mind, it makes a mockery of not running horses on genuinely good ground because of welfare, when we still have these unnecessary potential death traps on so many courses.
Would anyone miss the water jump at Cheltenham? Or anywhere else for that matter? Maybe keep the one on the National course but get rid of the rest.
“Jockey asked him to jump two more fences and only after he hit another one he decided to pull him up”.
That was poor. After the mistake he made, he really should have pulled up. We have seen horses injure themselves after those sort of mistakes plenty of times before.
Agreed CAS.
imo The horse’s rear end wasn’t moving right after that mistake and the jockey continued jumping.Value Is Everything
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