No Inquiry

[Hippo Joe]

Astonishing that the Doncaster stewards didn’t have a look at why Jamie Moore rode into a marker post yesterday, unseating himself and causing his mount to fall or stumble.
Leastways, I can’t see anything on the BHA site.
Considering they come down hard on more minor incidents, e.g. if you’re late into the parade ring, I wonder why this hasn’t been recorded.

[tbracing]

I can’t share your amazement to be honest, I should, but the stewards are quite frankly useless so not unexpected!

[eddie case]

Horse jinked, always a possibility with these dolls. Horse was probably confused and thought he had to jump it.

[robnorth]

I’ve just had a look at that race and I can’t see any blame can be attached to the jockey. He made a manoeuvre to move right and looked to be in a position to pass the doll, only for the the horse to jink suddenly to the left and jump the rail. When a horse changes direction unexpectedly when going 30mph+ I wouldn’t imagine there’s an awful lot a jockey can do about it, other than doing his best to avoid getting hurt.

There may have been a case for calling an enquiry on a safety issue, but I presume these things would be dealt with in racecourse H & S meetings away.

From my point of view I’d rather see the running rail moved out rather than the use of dolls, but this sort of incident doesn’t happen very often. On occasion even a solid running rail doesn’t stop a horse doing odd things.

Rob

[Hippo Joe]

Thanks, Rob, for the extra information. I saw the race only once (live) and hadn’t realised the horse had jinked.
Still think it should have been noted by the BHA website, along with all the missing injections, and horses that swerve at Lingfield.

[robnorth]

As a postscript to this story I understand Josh Moore dislocated his shoulder in the fall and will be out for a good while.

Rob

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