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Sad to hear that Shamari got up from his heavy fall only to collapse and die back at the stables. A gallant effort from the horse in the Lanzarote Hurdle with a desperately sad outcome.
The head on showed the horse getting quite a hard ride which is strange, as it was not bothering the leaders. John Francome commented that it was ‘legless’ when it fell, surely jockeys of this standard know when they are pressing very tired horses?
RIP Shamari, you gave your all for a jockey who should have known a lot better ,mr walsh was effing cruel today, only an idiot would have ridden a horse the way he did, no excuses.
Hadn`t realised he`d died. On TV saw that he could barely lift a leg when he was being walked back.He was struggling to keep up with his attendants` walking pace which I thought would have been real cause for concern but they weren`t even glancing back at him.
I agree; he looked terribly sore and stiff and I was expecting to hear that he had suffered an injury. Poor horse. RIP.
Any news of what caused his death? Was it a heart attack or internal bleeding caused by the fall?
Walsh said he felt like the horse would win most of the way around and then suddenly emptied. Something wrong inside? Poor thing looked very sad and exhausted when being walked back to the box.
I am still really depressed about this, francome said shamari’s head was on the ground before the last why did ruby ride him so hard, he took the widest way round the track and then asked the poor horse on that ground to put in a fast finish, to my knowledge this was an untried distance for shamari, the winner was cruising he was never going to catch it.
Unfortunately this is not the first time Walsh has driven a horse into the ground and the horse has not survived.
This is almost a repeat of Sanglote at Ascot in October -another instance of where Walsh should have pulled the horse up but didn’t, with fatal consequences.
It leaves a nasty taste in the mouth and on neither occasions did the Stewards hold an inquiry.
I am so sad to learn that this poor horse died – it was obvious he was hurt by that awful fall, when he was being led off he was obviously badly damaged but having got up I hoped he’d be OK. He gave everything during the race. Poor horse, RIP
Does anyone know the outcome of the other horrible fall yesterday, Kilfinnan Castle at Huntingdon? Please don’t say he lost his life too.
Does anyone know the outcome of the other horrible fall yesterday, Kilfinnan Castle at Huntingdon? Please don’t say he lost his life too.
He was OK – walked back to the stables fine – he was just winded.
This is the first post I’ve made on this website and it’s a shame it’s on such a sad topic. I came across the website while searching for info to try and find out what had happened to Kilfinnan Castle, so it’s a relief to see that he is okay. Had already read of Shamari’s demise on the Racing Post website and have to agree with all the posts condemming both the riding and the state of the horse when being led off the racecourse. I have a similar attitude to racing as I do to eating meat. I like meat, but do like the animals involved to have had the best possible life and a humane and as stress free as possible death. I have enjoyed racing ever since, as a small child, I watched Red Rum dead-heat in a flat race at Aintree. However, I do strongly feel that everyone, jockeys in particular, owe it to horses to do their absolute best for them at all times and it makes me both angry and sad when they don’t.
I can’t understand why this horse wasn’t taken back to the stables in a van. Perhaps it wouldn’t have prevented his end but it might of helped. Such incidents fuel the fire of radical animal activists.
Walsh said he felt like the horse would win most of the way around and then suddenly emptied. Something wrong inside? Poor thing looked very sad and exhausted when being walked back to the box.
So why the f*** didn’t he pull him up? He’s not the first jockey to do something like this and I am sure he won’t be the last, but why is there is no comeback on the jockey for rides like this? Wasn’t there a comment in the report into the numerous deaths at Cheltenham 2 years ago (3 years?) about tired horses falling and being killed, or subsequently being put down? Absolute disgrace that an individual who has the task of looking after the animal for the race, has no consequences to face when it goes wrong?
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