I was fearing this update, Prong. I’d backed the horse as it was the only one the trainer had sent over from Ireland (my interest in longest travellers has previously been documented on here). My initial annoyance at the horse finishing last was soon dissipated when I realised it had been pulled up, having “lost its action” as the RP comments so opaquely put it.
For some reason, taking an empty horse box back to Ireland on a ferry seems even more distressing, somehow.