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Are the stickies as good as aluminum for the foot ?
And what do they look like to the eye ?
Aluminum is shiny.
Is it possible to mistake them for irons ?Stickies mean no nails, so they tend to be better, some feet don’t take well to nailing shoes in and crumble.
I’ve grown up around horses, and at first glance can’t tell the difference between steel (they don’t make them out of iron) and aluminim. You’d need to pick up the foot and look, cause steel shoes go shiney when worn down.Horses tend to be shod morning of or night before a race, so putting it in racecards would be a reyt pain.
I’m pretty keen on Irish heartbeat, don’t really know much about the flat, but seems a really smart type.
I’m pretty sure aluminum are the most common in racing, although I know a Turnell lass, and I’m sure she mentioned something about theirs being in steel, so who knows. Thoroughbreds have infamously terrible feet, so stick on will probably be a popular option rather than whacking a set of nails through them every 4 weeks!
Steel shoes will be the standard hunter-type shoe that are the most common across the board of equestrianism.
Mud Caulks are a sort of substitute to ‘studding up,’ which are studs screwed into shoe –> shttp://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia … _studs.JPG you can’t really stud up racehorses – would be a total recipe for disaster if they fell and caught themselves/another horse/rider. They are probably more common over winter months, as they allow the horse to ‘grip’ the ground, rather than slide around on top of it. Would be useless on an AW track
You also have remedial shoes, but I don’t have all week!
I reckon aluminum are easily the most common, and are only really used for racehorses (tend to get called racehorse plates by most farriers), and not that much more expensive a set, considering they get replaced every time a horse races, I can’t see why anything in training would really be in anything else? but then the fact you really need to look after feet/horrible ground might change things. I think the reason more things win in aluminum than steel will be because so many more things are shoed with the former!
Agree with most others here, looked like a ‘disagreement’ over striding. Loose horses don’t fall and all that, but that’s not always 100% the jockeys fault as a rider gives a horse something to act up against. As an example our yard has an A road you can hear but can’t see running near it, in the field they don’t bat an eyelid at it, get on them and they really wind themselves up over the road.
I really don’t think, compared to some riders Jack Doyle is that bad, I doubt he’ll be getting a call to Henderson’s or Nicholls’ yard any time soon, but compared to some you see he’s not dreadful.
well deserved following some horrible injuries.
His hair still isn’t appropriate for over 36months though.
if you appretiate the ability to move without getting stuck behind a wall of people, it’s Thursday you want. Top, top racing too. Can’t make the thursday this year, as much as I can’t complain about being able to get to the friday and saturday, the Thursday is a great days racing, and unlike Ladies day I tend to find, the majority of people are there for the racing, not to show off how much ronseal they have swum in that morning.
There’s the ballad of Ruby walsh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqt1hWyfR4I had a good ‘ol giggle at Matt Dawson "what am i doing here"!
Have a go at NH racing pleassseeeeee
I’m going too! But we’ll be in the cheap seats
Sandowns pretty chilled really, just generally steer clear of jeans and footy shirts etc, no need to be whacking out the sunday best, but weather-conscious smart-casual should be fine.
I think the World Hurdle is probably worthy of it’s own day, but i think the tuesday has the best qual. across the board, then it all falls a bit flat?
I think four days actually fills the week quite nicely, and I’d agree 100% that thursday is probably the weakest day and the Ryanair is not a Grade 1, but we all look forwards to it from… well… the second its over!
Couldn’t agree more about the handicaps, so many of them seem like they are there for padding rather than actual purpose.
This makes for pretty interesting reading
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/de … ruby-walshI think that probably knowing his not got that long left that side of the rail probably leaves a bit of yearning for the glory days he had a Martin Pipes, and maybe having to get a glorified moose round a decent race finishing well behind someone you know to be a lesser rider begins to grate, and all your best rides coming on miserable tuesday afternoons.
I think McManus, financially and personally has been very, very good to AP and I think he’s a pretty loyal man and after what, 6 years? Might find it quite hard to leave, especially as he’s not getting any younger and he really won’t be riding for many more seasons.
Yes, but I got into it through P2P which has more of a horsey set to it, rather than the betting. I bet on the big races and if I go to a meet, but will generally take a good half an hour or so to have a look at midweek cards and follow the whole thing pretty closely.
I do think that it would be pretty hard for it to survive with no betting however.
I grew up with show/showjumping ponies and to keep them sane took them hunting once or twice a year, which meant you met people that went point to pointing, which was always great fun, dad went to King George meeting and Cheltenham every year, whined long enough to get him to take me with him one year, been hooked ever since!
Do a bit of occasional work with ex-racers too, used to ride out for P2P yards but don’t have the time any more.That aside betting wise i do a bit, I’m not a massssive punter, tend to only bet on the weekend feature race or if I’m a meeting. Look forward to getting to know you all
