- This topic has 10 replies, 9 voices, and was last updated 14 years, 10 months ago by
.
- Posts
Sounds like he paid more attention to caring for Rewidling than to his own winning horse, and I say he deserves enormous credit for his thoughts and actions.
I thought this too. Probably for him, like most others, the loss of rewilding completely overshadowed his horse winning. Also good form of Buick to offer condolences to Godolphin and the horse before going onto talk about the win himself.
Gosden’s post-race interview on the BBC was a credit to the sport.
I was watching the race with a friend who doesn’t know anything about racing. She was shocked when I said during the race it looked like Rewilding had broken a leg and would probably have to be put down. But Gosden put it in better words than I could in what it means when such a tragedy happens – and I’m glad this was aired to the public.
Many non-horsey people tuning in don’t generally understand why horses must be put down in such situations and Gosden provided more clarity than many of the BBC’s own commentators have done over the years when such accidents have happened.
Gosden was a class act yesterday, as also was William Buick, who must have had the Norwegian tragedy on his mind as well.
Full marks to both.
I would agree that Gosden was a credit to the sport. However, I think some of praise has been a little overboard (Down referred to the interview as a ‘masterclass’) and more a reflection that Racing has few figures who could have produced a similar performance.
As to what he actually said I wonder how many people would have felt completely reassured that the horse felt no pain.
- Total Posts 17716
As to what he actually said I wonder how many people would have felt completely reassured that the horse felt no pain.
Me for a start. When asked to choose between an honourable, articulate man who’s been working with horses for about half a century, and a few fools who have not, it’s quite easy to make that decision, yes?
The man has little control over the press reaction to his interview.
Doesn’t strike me as the sort of chap who would make up a story about the pain or not, he seemed to be just sharing his experience on the spur of the moment.
I think most trainers or stable staff would have acted in the same way that John Gosden did, but not so many would have given such an eloquent account of it afterwards. All credit to the man and his jockey. Although, sadly, there are exceptions, we are, in general a sport full of decent people who care deeply about how people perceive it and even more deeply about the horses themselves.
i can’t understand why gosden would make up a lie about the horse not feeling pain etc. at the end of the day, why would he? full credit to him, he deserved that win.
Indeed, adrenaline is an effective form of brief pain relief – how else is ‘flight or fight’ supposed to work? The fact Rewilding was able to munch on grass suggests he was in little pain and mercifully, he was attended to before pain had time to kick in.
Similarly, a survivor of the Norway shootings said he got shot, but didn’t feel any pain when it happened and was therefore able to play dead and ultimately save his own life.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.