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I know nothing about racecourse husbandry, but surely the underlying (no pun intended) problem is that the undersoil is not even monitored due to the primary racing surface being deemed “all weather”.
Seeing that the turf course used for jumps racing is very much of secondary importance, I suspect that its substratum has simply been ignored for years.
I wasn’t questioning the integrity or judgement of any of those trainers and jockeys Factorman I have great admiration for all those you mentioned and the horses they train.
The only thing I was questioning was my own love of the sport.
When you read about a track that has been having an above normal amount of fatalities even factoring in all the risk assessment they could these continued to happen and after several weeks of closure it is happening again. Can you explain why?Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Southwell (NH) racetrack continues to amaze me. First you have a 3-year old doing a somersault and somehow surviving it, then the 2-9 Fav in a novice hurdle takes a crunching fall at the last and there goes another equine life. Something is wrong with their hurdles and nothing will change.
Racing at this track is no longer an option.
It was a horrible fall but is it fair to blame the track here?
It was one of the new hurdles with white markers which the horses are meant to be able to see better. And the horse was under pressure going to the last, asked for a big jump but could not manage it.
Condolences to his connections but to my mind it was something that could have happened on any track.
Cork, I think it’s the French hurdles some horses can’t handle. They are unforgiving and you can’t afford to hit them neither with the front or the back legs. Donaire took off way too soon and hit the hurdle with his hind legs, while also being unable to get the landing gear out. I think jumping the French hurdles at racing speed is a lot more difficult than jumping the regular ones.
There’s a difference between approved killing and lack of action to prevent death – this thread headline would never get past a newspaper’s libel lawyers and make it into print.
But clearly there have been issues at Southwell as I’ve read comment about the track elsewhere too in recent years.
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