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I have followed the racing post lockdown extensively as I have been shielding/post shielding, so I have seen a lot of races, but I have not seen as many falls as at Southwell. It is appalling, something must be badly wrong, I was thinking that the actually fences have to be a factor. I noticed them, they wheel them away in sections and the actual fences look a bit stiff for a low grade like Southwell. I have also heard that that the course is a speedy one, it sounds that it is all set for the worst possible chances for the poor horses. Is there anything in the pipeline for an enquiry?
I was very different Chapman is/was on the other racing channel. It seems he is a hamming it up for ITV, they making him be a self parody. It is embarrassing to see.
I have been watching TV racing since the late 1960s and I have seen many presenters over the years. I have enjoyed the post lockdown coverage as the “team” have been a bit more engaged with racing and there have more shots of the horses. Today’s coverage was slightly poorer as few of the runners were seen in the parade ring and none going down, I hope this will not be the shape of things to come. I thought that some of the pictures might have been from a different source as few of the horses corresponded to those described on view, one of the main gripes for me is that I am not sure what is going on the screen and there is little clarity, I find that I am having to use a mobile in my hand to see the runners in the race, this was not the case in older coverage of racing.
I but know it is not about people, but he has left Shadwell Park fall into repair. I am part of the campaigning group The Victorian Society. The house has been listed as one of the ten most buildings of risk, but this is unusual as this is the second time the house has made the list. Bearing in mind how much those yearlings cost at the Houghton Sales this year, the care of the mansion would be minuscule. This a major listed grade one building.
This and the human rights record is making me sick of watching racing.So Michael80 has left the Forum. Okay he might have been connected with Racehorse Death Watch but at least these horses get a mention and I for one like to see them recorded.
I thought it must have been something than colic going on for so long. Very sad that she had a tumour.
I am thinking that there are more fatal colics among racehorses now than there used to be and that is even before the life saving surgeries of today. Looking at the equivalent group winners from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, it appears that the trend of serious colics is on the up trend. What could cause this, genetics, stabling, diet, increasing ulcers?
Not forgetting this.. “he has a beautiful mind, so he has….” I have noticed that many jockeys have started saying this, but it started with Aiden.
I watched a bit of one of the Sky Racing coverage yesterday, one of the regulars on ITV was so rubbish I switched it off. In the paddock he said “we won’t look at the horses they have four legs and a tail….” and proceeded to talk to people who were busy with the owners, jockeys and stable staff. At this I was so incensed I switched it off. This presenter is the main problem with the ITV coverage for me, the others I bad but this man needs to be taken from all the racing TV programmes; the horses are the cornerstone of the sport and his attitude stinks.
A couple of observations – Sir Dragonet (Camelot – Sadlers Wells). All others have are by Galileo or by a stallion by Galileo – all runners are Sadlers Wells line.
This is what is worrying. Just go back thirty of so years and there was much more diversity in the breed, go back fifty years (no I can’t believe it’s that long)it was Blakeney, from the Byerley Turk line. Now it is all the Darley male line and the majority of horses have multiple crosses of Northern Dancer and his sons. The thoroughbred has been inbred more or less than the start but now there are no other any crosses or diversity. This years winner is almost a clone of Sadlers Wells/Northern Dancer; there are so many horses identical now, white on faces, white socks, bright bays, some with silver tails. It isn’t just the same silks, when did you last see a top class runner on the flat that was a brown, or even a dark bay or a black? Sadlers Wells was a true breeding horse so there are less chesnuts too.
What with the ITV coverage….I went out to do the garden.Yes he looked a lovely kind horse but this was an accident waiting to happen. Anyone looked at his closely inbred pedigree? A horse with his breeding was not suitable for stud he shouldn’t have even been jumping. Had he lived and been to stud to weakness of the breed would continue for other generations. Hope more people actually consider improving the gene pool and cut the amount of Northern Dancer line flat bred horses over jumps and at stud.
Do they have girls carrying beer and plastic glasses on their backs at Haydock still? I remember seeing this, even in the expensive stands, and being horrified, especially the sexism.
I remember an equine influenza epidemic in the 1970s, there was a vaccine but it wasn’t that effective, all the ponies at the yard came down with it, the ones vaccinated were less ill but still got it, the thoroughbreds were the most seriously ill and took much longer to recover. An area like Newmarket would have serious implications with many foals infected. I also remember a strangles outbreak at a similar time, my pony was the only one not to get it so we assumed he had already had it. Strangles is more serious and has more implications.
