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Suffered a horrible injury in the 1.25 at Kempton. Olly Murphy is just having a terrible time at the moment.
May he rest in peace
Sickening … I thought he’d jumped OK then he seemed to go down … I hoped he’d be alright … so sad he’s gone …
Appeared to break its off fore immediately after jumping the fence.
On a related topic, do other contributors consider that there seems to be an increase in racehorses breaking legs whilst simply galloping? It didn’t seem to happen so frequently in the 80s and 90s. Maybe the occurrences appear more frequent because all horseraces are televised.
Nonetheless, it’s not nice to witness and one wonders whether the question of overbreeding/interbreeding will rear its head.
It seems that way to me too … there’s been so many with “lost action” “broke down” and I can’t say for sure but certainly some of them are broken legs (and not tendon or other leg injuries). When this has been discussed in the past people have said that nowadays we get the information – we can watch all races, see reports on social media etc – so we are made more aware. But I have to say it seems more prevalent to me – horses have always fallen and got injured understood but breaking a leg “just galloping” seems to happen far too often. The incident at Chelmsford yesterday was totally sickening – I’m not sure if the poor youngster broke a leg then fell or tripped and broke a leg in the fall (or if the horse that was brought down caused an injury) …
It does seem that way SpaceProject. I am sure that inbreeding has an impact (and likely to get worse given the number of unsound two year olds retiring and becoming popular at stud) but I’m also wondering about training methods. Weight-bearing exercise builds bone and there was great importance set on “road work” in past years. Today there is increased reliance on the use of horse-walkers and swimming, possibly even more this year. I have no idea if it is a factor but there really ought to be more data available to see if our perception that non-fall related fatal injuries ARE increasing is the case and, if it is, exploring the reasons – rather than just shrugging off with “it’s a tough old game”, “that’s racing” etc which is the approach the authorities seem to favour
Just go through the last 30-40 fatalities on our Memorials list. You’ll find that most of them died rather in the first half of the race and not many were related to a fall.
The three Olly Murphy horses Crackin’ Rose, Soldier Hill and Sangha River never got further than the 5th or 6th obstacle and suffered injuries without falling or being within the closing stages of the race. No way to bring bone fatigue or tiredness into play.Is there a page where all post-mortems are published?
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