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Most people operating in the public domain can handle criticism. Can you?
I don’t have a problem reading “this sort of thing.” Quite often it amuses me to observe the faux outrage.
I disagreed with an opinion. What’s freedom of speech got to do with it??? People talk freely and disagree with opinions all the time.
Easy to say when one isn’t in the public eye.
True. It’s just too easy to be attacked anonymously on the internet by people who are not necessarily the best in their fields.
Paul Townend has been a brilliant jockey for many years and has filled Ruby’s boots rather well. He did ride Mullins’ maiden Gold Cup and Champion Chase winners after all.
It is arguable that any competent jockey could ride Mullins’ winners and you’d be right. However, Willie Mullins tends not to give rides to ordinary jockeys….
And as Jamie Spencer once said; “if you don’t like my riding, don’t back my horses,”
…”Willie Mullins is dominating and his main jockey….well he ain’t anything out of the ordinary”
This is clearly not Willie Mullins’ opinion and I will take his judgement over an embittered-sounding keyboard warrior any day!!!!!
But still. We have speculated about the (perceived) increase in racehorses breaking legs whilst simply galloping and whether this could be due to overbreeding or the modern (national hunt) racehorse being more fragile.
Having watched horse racing from childhood, the modern-day fences are definitely less stiff, which in light of the above is probably a good thing. Nevertheless, as Ascot, Cheltenham, Newbury, Fairyhouse and Punchestown demonstrate, the fences are plenty stiff enough.
But if you watch racing at Taunton, the complaint about fence stiffness has some validity.
Horrible incident. But what has stiff fences got to do with it? Sometimes you conflate too many arguments…
That’s a little unfair to Jerry Ex Ruby. Clearly the commentator initially thought that Reality Cheque had slipped up with no consequences. However, once Patrick Mullins’ mount rose (well out of camera shot) I’m pretty sure Mr Hannon was fully aware of the seriousness his injury; otherwise he would not have reported the horse’s condition as “broken down.”
There was no footage of “swinging legs” shown on the live Racing TV broadcast, so why reference this term so flippantly??
Comments like this demonstrate the type of melodramatic assumption-making that knowledgeable people on racing forums really should avoid. In this instance, the melodrama is compounded by your baseless opinion that a respected broadcaster is tasteless.
Appeared to break its off fore immediately after jumping the fence.
On a related topic, do other contributors consider that there seems to be an increase in racehorses breaking legs whilst simply galloping? It didn’t seem to happen so frequently in the 80s and 90s. Maybe the occurrences appear more frequent because all horseraces are televised.
Nonetheless, it’s not nice to witness and one wonders whether the question of overbreeding/interbreeding will rear its head.
I couldn’t agree more Ex-Ruby. I think Internet forums are the refuge of the bigot and the bully. Why people see the need to be so vitriolic about people whom they do not know and about occurrences they can only speculate on is beyond me.
Plus the social media comments relating to Rishi Persad are downright deplorable…
