The media hype around CH is excessive again 🙄
Swear it isn't this much around any other horse
Bar one possible hes running against a load of utter dross again
Needing money in desperate times is Needing it for absolute essentials like food or to keep your home
To continue to be able to fund a luxury hobby, made even more so by having multiple ponies, transport and swanning off to competitons? Absolutely not get f'd
If you were that desperate you'd...
I dont follow them, but just nosed at the we want you to pay for our yards Instagram, "outside agencies" sounds a bit like social services? Or maybe they have had something happens that has shown why its REALLY not appropriate to give randoms on the Internet contact with your child...
The horse was so good to try and jump/clamber over the fence despite being so exhausted he could barely move. Got a smack a few strides before as well
12 day ban is paltry
Possibly another thread, and i know there are things being implemented/research done but I'm thinking about F1 and how even if there are heavy crashes, the drivers are generally able to walk away unscathed, due to all the work that has gone into safety. I was born in the 90s, so only what ive...
While I watch the racing, I could never own one (not that I have the money) nor could I be involved in a syndicate, because id feel responsible if anything happened to it/wouldn't like not having a say about if it was retired or not
I think the fatality rate for Cheltenham is perhaps because...
Not a good look at all, should be a longer ban
https://www.racingpost.com/news/reports/amateur-rider-handed-12-day-ban-after-failing-to-pull-up-tired-horse-in-final-fence-drama-at-fakenham-aN8DK8U3qIUb/
(Not at Cheltenham)
Same here, really quite angry and its soured it for me, you could see him at the back approaching the 2nd last. He'd served them so brilliantly and now cant enjoy retirement because they wanted him to "have final race"
Its bugging me now, im sure theres been at least one other who died because...
Know hindsight is a wonderful thing, but did they really need to run Envoi in this, its such a tough race
Feel like "one last race before retirement" is tempting fate, sure its happened before but cant remember who the horse was