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Not nice to see – Snoopy Loopy did NOT enjoy that race from flag fall. Thankfully he was pulled up – but I actually thought that should have happened even earlier as he was not a happy bunny. Hope his owner has a re-think and looks at other less stressful options – dressage, showing, happy hacker … agree with previous poster.
Snoopy should be given a long & honourable retirment why can’t his owner see that the horse owes him nothing & if he does not like standing in a field there are other "jobs" he could do to keep him happy
Have to agree re Snoopy Loopy – pulled up 5 times in 6 last outings. I too wish they’d give him an honourable retirement before it’s too late. It’s not good for the image of the sport to read of some horses being treated like old unwanted machines – remember the Hello Dandy story? Below is an extract from The Racehorse Sanctuary website, which, although a few years old, expresses it very well.
If this step were to be taken then the next step would be to make it compulsory that as and when the owner of a racehorse makes the decision to retire him or her the passport should be returned to Wetherby’s immediately and stamped whereby this horse would not be allowed to be entered in any race under rules again hence safeguarding its future. Unfortunately for those horses who’s owners are not concerned as to their future many horses that quite obviously are not going to make the grade as a racehorse will still end up going under the hammer at the sales ring for a few hundred pounds to the small trainer who believes he is the one who can squeeze a little more blood out of the stone and turn things around.Only this morning I was reading of the re-vamped classes for re-trained racehorses in Horse and Hound. With care and patience, there can be life after racing. I have an ex chaser who was found in Ireland, standing knee deep in sh** having been pretty much abandoned, when his owner died and his wife wasn’t really interested. Luckily, someone I know paid meat money to save him and now he lives a very spoilt life with my 2 showjumpers and is very happy learning not to be a racehorse.
Thats lovely to hear, mort, and lets not forget our very own ‘Gaz’ who has done the same thing. I would like to write or email someone about the Snoopy Loopy situation, but I’m not sure who to contact. It totally undermines the integrity of out sport, and I find it very upsetting. Just maybe he’s the sort of horse that needs to be kept in full training and a life outside of racing is out of the question, but it would be good to know the reason behind what’s happening to him.
I have Googled the named owners of Snoopy Loopy – Walters Plant Hire Ltd and Egan Waste Ltd – and found their 2 websites but I don’t know the name of the actual person/s who "own" him … I don’t know anything about his new trainer … wonder what Peter Bowen thinks about his old inmate … not sure how best to proceed now but I feel someone needs to at least try for Snoopy’s sake …
Hallelujah, let’s hope it sticks this time.
Just an afterthought here. He is to spend the rest of his days in a field???? I thought that’s where the problem started last time? I hope someone decent steps forward to re-home him and give him a more varied option than that.
I have Googled the named owners of Snoopy Loopy – Walters Plant Hire Ltd and Egan Waste Ltd – and found their 2 websites but I don’t know the name of the actual person/s who "own" him … I don’t know anything about his new trainer … wonder what Peter Bowen thinks about his old inmate … not sure how best to proceed now but I feel someone needs to at least try for Snoopy’s sake …
Ten Plus,
he’s primarily owned by Dai Walters (hence Walters Plant Hire) and Andrew Boxhall is one of his retained trainers. Mr Walters is rather ‘eccentric’ in the way he campaigns his horses.
may be someone could send an email with details for greatwood & heroes & may be the owners will finally get the message
GOOD NEWS!!! From Racing Post:
"SNOOPY LOOPY, who came out of retirement to contest the Blue Square Gold Cup at Haydock on Saturday, will not race again, owner Dai Walters said on Sunday.
The 12-year-old, winner of the 2008 Betfair Chase, is to spend the rest of his days in a field.
Walters, whose charge was pulled up on Saturday – the fifth time in six outings he had failed to complete – said: "He’s done enough, and Haydock was the last time he’ll be asked to race.
"He has come back 100 per cent sound and eaten up everything put in front of him, but that’s it now, retirement for good."
Snoopy Loopy won eight of his 32 races, earning nearly £300,000 in win and place prize-money, mainly under the care of Peter Bowen, although he ran at the weekend for Andrew Boxhall."
Just wish that he could do something else – he’s relatively young and fit … surely too young to be in a field for the rest of his life …
After Snoopy Loopy and Just Beth last weekend, another entry that will raise a few eyebrows this coming weekend is Philson Run in the Eider at the age of 14, just shy of two years since he last turned out.
I suppose I’m a little less concerned about this reappearance than that of the aforementioned, as he was always very sympathetically campaigned by Nick Williams hitherto, comes back into racing with still relvatively few miles on the clock, and has been made proper use of at Sophie Leech’s training establishment as a lead horse (albeit one evidently keener on racing the babies that leading them!) in the interim.
Will be quite some feat if he can even place, though the that Mrs Leech got herself off the cold list with a first winner since June at the weekend offers a further small positive.
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