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They say seeing is believing. Well after seeing this I still can’t believe it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Vu4PBove8
Here is the related piece from RP website.
IT SEEMS that, on occasion, walking the course might prove something of a waste of time. That was certainly the case with the beginners’ chase on Sunday at Castera-Verduzan, an hour to the north-west of Toulouse.The field was scattered to the four winds attempting to navigate a particularly tight intersection on the track, with the majority of the eleven runners finding an ingenious variety of ways to take the wrong course.
Amid the mayhem Maxime Le Galliard was one of only two jockeys to head off in the right direction and probably deserves bonus points for avoiding a potential near miss when two other riders cut directly across his mount Sairastar later in the race when following the (incorrect) cross-country course.
So it will have been with a heavy heart that Le Gailliard learned that he had been disqualified from first place for causing the original interference.The video is already making waves on social media and has to be seen to believed.
Trainer Jacques Ortet told Equidia: “I’ve been coming to Castera-Verduzan for 25 years and I’ve never seen such a mess. Luckily there was no incident but there could have been terrible consequences when the two horses on the right track had to cope with the two running across them from the opposite diagonal straight.
“It’s not a particularly difficult chase track to follow and, while some of the horses were clearly unbalanced after the incident, what I really can’t understand is the jockeys who carried on racing on the wrong course.” [/color:2hygdkpd]
Was just about to post that. Craziest race I’ve ever seen. Can’t help laughing but seriously, this race should been neutralized.
Well, at the very least they can always be credited with the invention of labyrinth horse racing.
Absolutely crazy. I wonder what the stewards had to say afterwards.
Nice to hear a woman doing the commentating, even if she did sound somewhat nonplussed. ATR/RacngUK take note!
Was just about to post that. Craziest race I’ve ever seen. Can’t help laughing but seriously, this race should been neutralized.
Yes I have to say I did laugh too, the bit where the two horses shot across the track in front of the fence was hilarious, as was the bolter. Need a vote on whether that race or Tony McCoy’s Family Business race was funnier. Sometimes however good the rules or the tracks it simply goes tits up!!
It’s happened AGAIN!
First it was Castera-Verduzan, then it was Saint-Pierre-la-Cour. This time it’s the turn of fairly large course Clairefontaine.
Part way through the race, half of the field, thinking they’ve taken the wrong course, pull up abruptly. The rest of the field carries on to the winning line. Then the horses who pulled up continue as they had actually taken the correct course.
Brilliant viewing!!!!!
Will post a link when one’s available.
Well something like that anyway…
Looking back, it seems that they all took the wrong course somewhere then half of the field went back to complete the correct course… I think…
Try to figure it out yourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwzUVRkup9s
It appears to begin at around the 6 minute mark.
Looks like the whole field went wrong as you say, but impossible to see which course they should have taken. No flags waved or other help to alert jockeys. Maybe these incidents have been happening with some regularity over the years, but before satellite raving TV, YouTube etc they didn’t get the attention. No doubt that these types of cross country races are difficult for jockeys and I can see why several of our leading riders give them a miss and so avoid the risk of taking the wrong course and the inevitable lengthy suspensions that would follow.
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