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RIP Rasheed
Ex John Gosden trained flat horse.
He never really took to the NH but being a gelding guess that was to be his fate, poor boy.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Pathetic circustances surrounding this fatality.
First of all you hate to see them moving wildly behind the screens when the field comes around again and then the question if the trainer has got any clue about the horse????
The horse perfectly flat bred and shouldn’t have run over fences, like so many horses lost in the past.
Look at its last six races:
Tailed off in a Novices Chase in mid-January
4th in a Jumpers Bumper at the end of January
Then two efforts over 2m and 1m4f on the Flat with no real encouragement
Then another try over hurdles without any threat to the winner
Finally another try at another disipline that proved fatal.Soft – Slow – Standard – Good/Soft – Good (5 different underfoot conditions)
4 different jockeys in those final 6 starts.
Poor horse, but the ones involved with it were pretty clueless!!!
Poor horse, nasty end for this and so many more racehorses involved in the big racing machine; you have to worry about what happens to all the low quality racehorses that are sold out of racing and find their way on the transporters to the meat factories of Europe . lets just hope that this horse while in racing had a groom that cared for him!
So angry to read the above and how this poor boy was suffering whilst the race continued.
There should be rules for horses bred purely for the flat transferring to NH rules. Oasis Dream was a sprinter, this fella didn’t stand a chance. Godolphin sold him down the river as he was no use to them. RIP RasheedThings turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...@ Triptych:
I fully agree with you that differences should be made between flat bred and NH bred animals.
PLUS: owners should care about a racehorse until it retires. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t resell them, but that one should follow their journey until they go into retirement. Racehorses should never be slaughtered or end up in a third world country. All of them – no matter how good or bad – deserve a proper retirement. There are a lot of caring owners out there, but looking at the big owners under both codes, there is just one thing that comes to my mind:
The more you have, the less you know and care.
Sad, but true.Here, here Rubylight especially about the owners caring for their horses until they retire. I thought that the Horse Passport was meant to protect the horse throughout it’s life from being sold abroad or worse.
There are so many caring owners but there are those just in the game for a quick profit and out. Once the horse has outlived his winning potential they don’t seem to care where he/she ends up.
I hope someone out there, in a position to do so, takes a long hard look at some gloomy stats and acts on them for the sake of poor boys like Rasheed.Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...
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