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Just came on to comment, phone screen jumped and I’ve accidentally reported previous poster so at this point I’m going away before I do more damage sorry 🤦🤦 RIP Black Caviar
I’m fairly sure Hors La Loi III passed away about ten years ago at the age of 19, but the only Facebook post about it is no longer up.
Genuinely heartbroken at this, he was one of my all time favourites, and the same age as my own horse who I lost a few years ago.
But what a wonderful retirement he had. Sleep tight fella and thankyou for the memories.Just seen a clip and was confused at first, he appears to have gone over backwards, they got him out but then he looked to collapse behind the stalls. You can then see a horse trotting about and at first glance it appears he’s got up, but on closer viewing that’s another horse and you can actually just glimpse Thaki still on the ground behind, mostly obscured by the dip in the ground and all the horses in the stalls.
I was watching to cheer Guard Duty on but that incident just took all the joy out of the day, poor Valsad.
Condolences to his connections, he had served them well on the flat and looked to have a bright future over jumps.
Another former OG horse, Proclaimer, also passed with a heart attack a few days ago, after a very short retirement. Last seen on the track in September and a winner of eight races. RIP to both and condolences to their many shareholders and subsequent owners.
I’m part of the Owners Group syndicate for Huelgoat who also came down at Newton Abbot, in the 3.00 today, and I have to say I am not a fan of summer jumping. Heartily relieved his name isn’t on here tonight. Condolences to all those who lost horses today.
That Champion Hurdle was excruciating viewing, the horse looked to be absolutely cruising and then just went yeah..nope. They must have been gutted. RIP to the old monkey.
Some memories there, and it doesn’t seem like yesterday! What a wonderful life and a long happy retirement though, if only they could all be as fortunate. Condolences to those who loved him, they must be feeling it. I lost my old lad at 27 and it’s like losing a family member after that long.
Not related to this case, but the thing that gets me is how many seem to be lost through breaking legs between fences nowadays, especially the hind limbs.
I’ve watched racing for 40 years and unless my mind serves me wrong, I don’t recall this happening so often. Falls at obstacles, yes, and occasionally front leg breakdowns, but it seems every week there’s another one with a horrible high back leg break while just lobbing along mid race.
I don’t know if it’s breeding, training or ground, but it feels like that shouldn’t be happening so much.
Such a shock to read this, and a desperately sad end to a pretty miserable season for Nicky and his team. RIP Shishkin.
Owners Group’s Chez Hans, trained by Paul Nicholls, has been retired.
Won and placed in half of his four starts on the flat before joining OG, he started his NH career with modest success in 2019-2020.
He then surprised everyone when he notched up a super run of six wins (five on the bounce) and three places from 11 runs in the spring and summer of 2021, before falling on his final start.
A tendon injury kept him off the track until this year, when he failed to fire on his reappearance and later burst a blood vessel in training, leading connections to call time on his racing career.
Not one of the big names but a tough, honest little horse who was adored by his vast army of owners and will be much missed. Lovely video of his winning sequence on YouTube for anyone interested (Chez Hans Summer of 21).
Happy retirement lad.
The anti racing people will tell you that it’s still the fault of humans imprisoning horses in ‘cages’ for 23hrs a day. Unfortunately they don’t realise that there is no such thing as some utopia where all the ickle horsies frolic happily in sunny meadows all day.
I suspect they have never seen a wild horse slowly starving to death because its shattered leg or shoulder leaves it barely able to walk, unable to find enough food, and unable to flee predators.
Papers are already spouting guff about him being PTS after a ‘horrific fall’ so if they can’t even get those basic facts right, I doubt there’s much hope of placating the anti racing lobby 🙄
