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Vets can recommend but they can't enforce. Which causes them a lot of stress and sadness at times. It's always the owner's call.

Actually, unfortunately for the type of sudden death we saw yesterday, there is very very little notice at all. Horses have dropped dead...

I do find myself rather offended by this statement. I would be OK with it if you had said 'some vets' or 'a vet I have experienced did'...

You must be thinking of another horse. Envoi Allen hadn't run since November.

I actually cried. A gold cup for Gary!!! 😍

As a horse vet I would regularly get called to mild sweet itch, and I have seen midges pretty much throughout the winter here...

I get the impression that Davy Russell literally banged their heads together! He was always a bit of a weighing-room sorter-outer!

Fabulous ride from Sean in second though. He's a great lad. It was have been amazing if he'd won! It's still probably the best day of...

I do think, as Ruby showed on the ITV coverage, that some of the starts, particularly for the big handicaps, need re-visiting in terms...

Oh, interesting, never knew that. I would also say, about tactics, that on most of Willie’s top horses you are going so much better than...

And wasn't Quilixios amazing, as ever

In Ireland bumpers are restricted to amateurs. It's one of the reasons Patrick never turned pro. Probably Jodie too. But i agree with...

I do always wonder quite how good the pro Irish (jump!) jockeys are in bumpers. The Irish amateurs ride in them all the time, as do the...

If you'd paid €710,000 for Mets Ta Centre you'd expect to win!

It's possibly unlikely, but I'd love for Jodie to win the bumper. She would almost certainly be the only jockey to have led up and...