Forum Replies Created
- Posts
Wtf was that? That horse was still up on its feet with a swinging leg even a circuit later?
I`m sure this can be dealt a lot faster. No need to have the horse suffering. It maybe took them five minutes or even longer to put it down. That`s incredible and much too long. Hope they can solve this a lot better and faster in the future.RIP Present Potential
Nevertheless a very tough customer despite his young age.
Very sad indeed and I realised that he only ran 5 days ago.
Rest in Peace Kaylif AramisJockey kept pushing it and hitting it once or twic ebefore realising that something was amiss. And a few moments later the horse fell.
R.I.P. Norse of CorseAnother baby lost for no obvious reason.
Another broken neck and/or back.
Very sad to watch and to try to feel what the horse felt.@ Triptych:
I fully agree with you that differences should be made between flat bred and NH bred animals.
PLUS: owners should care about a racehorse until it retires. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t resell them, but that one should follow their journey until they go into retirement. Racehorses should never be slaughtered or end up in a third world country. All of them – no matter how good or bad – deserve a proper retirement. There are a lot of caring owners out there, but looking at the big owners under both codes, there is just one thing that comes to my mind:
The more you have, the less you know and care.
Sad, but true.I know that he has good intentions, h.owever this one’s injury was just too obvious. He is better than the ATR commentators who tend to praise the high quality of the race without mentioning the fatal injured horse. But you can also expect them to say less than rather make false hopes.
The swinging leg again… Not nice to watch and a totally clueless commentator. "Fingers crossed for him" he saif when they bypassed him 2nd time round. Fulltime Idiot
RIP to him
3 falls in a row and 4 falls in his 7 last starts. Not really in love with the game.
Poor horsePathetic circustances surrounding this fatality.
First of all you hate to see them moving wildly behind the screens when the field comes around again and then the question if the trainer has got any clue about the horse????
The horse perfectly flat bred and shouldn’t have run over fences, like so many horses lost in the past.
Look at its last six races:
Tailed off in a Novices Chase in mid-January
4th in a Jumpers Bumper at the end of January
Then two efforts over 2m and 1m4f on the Flat with no real encouragement
Then another try over hurdles without any threat to the winner
Finally another try at another disipline that proved fatal.Soft – Slow – Standard – Good/Soft – Good (5 different underfoot conditions)
4 different jockeys in those final 6 starts.
Poor horse, but the ones involved with it were pretty clueless!!!
I don’t know where to get reliable numbers from France. In my opinion British Racing does a bit more for horses and their welfare than other coutries do. Simply the fact that you have numbers and names of fatal injured horses made public tells me a lot about the transparency in Britain.
On the other hand, tracks like Auteuil do a lot for the horses’ welfare by providing at least soft going for all meetings they stage during the year. And let’s not forget that they have about 45 meetings a year which is excatly three times the amount Cheltenham has. I don’t watch French racing on a daily basis, but I can’t remember when I saw the last horse at Auteuil doing a "Raya Star" or "Tiqris".
Another positive from the French racing industry is that the horses look to be very natural jumpers and are schooled really well. How many times do you see British owners buying Jumpers from France and how many times do you see British or Irish Jumpers being sold to race in France for a new owner???
The quality of the breed in France is a lot better in my opinion. Look at the horses like Ptit Zig or Diakali: French breds that ran in France, then were sold to Ireland/Britain and then went back to won G1 races for their new connections.
Of course I might be wrong with my views, but the French NH horse looks far superior than the British one and also superior than the Irish.
I still hope that someone could provide us with numbers regarding Auteuil.Has anyone bothered to read today’s RP article about the breeding problem in Britain?
If foals have to be PRODUCED just to fulfil the British fixture list, then no wonder why especially the NH breed has become so fragile and vulnerable!!!
What about the 3-month summer break we used to have until some 15 years ago? And what about fixture-free Sundays?
Just concentrate on quality and not quantity. We have just too many bad horses running over the jumps.
One recent fatality – Sud Pacifique – was just competing in the wrong sport. It was by Montjeu and out of a Anabaa mare and cost 600,000 gns as a yearling. Owned by PHILANTROPIST Sir Robert Ogden the horse was supposed to be a proper Flat horse and win some prize money.
It achieved absolutely nothing over hurdles. A pathetic highest rating of 135 just because it was trained by Donald McCain and it only won about 16,000 pounds in prize-money. The horse – like many others – wasn’t supposed to be running hurdle races. No wonder when the final comment ends with "fatally injured".
What are breeders, owners and trainers thinking of when they purchase that kind of stock? We need to be more selective when buying or even selling stock. That’s the only way to get proper animals and quality racing and make sure the sport survives. Young racegoers and young punters will be hard to recruit if facing racecourse fatalities, inconsistent performances and bad media.Very sad to lose another horse. We are back to the "one horse a day" routine. This is really sad, though this one’s demise was not necessarly obstacle related. But maybe he hit one so hard that the bone suffered a small fracture.
R.I.P. Ask The BossPathetic stuff !!!! A broken neck almost every day.
And no commentator more useless than the ATR bloke. He hopes the horse is okay?
How can it be when it breaks almost every bone from its neck down to the spine?
Ridicolous stuff nowadays. We are not naylonger in the Middle Ages or the Cold War. Just tell the people what is happening. On a very regular basis. Stop hiding the truth and pretending that things could be okay. A broken neck every day is no longer acceptable.Great photographs. Thanks for sharing and maybe you have more to post from the past or the upcoming meetings.
Thanks once again mate!Really horrible.I just don’t think that horses should break their necks or backs while running. Broken legs are rather natural, but I can’t accept any broken backs or necks any longer. We had just too many in the past week:
Voltchesko
Our Conor
Raya Star
Bocamix
Cloverhill Lad
and this one today
R.I.P Uppertown Cave
