Recent content by reynold

What's so awful is that the people doing this are effectively 'custodians of horse racing'. Disgraceful - especially after spending all that money on creating a floodlit all-weather flat track - just for it to be demolished. Even further back than Folkstone - Hurst Park was a racecourse at...

Old saying that I was told as a kid..... 'Two wrongs don't make a right' Just because there are worse abusers than CDJ doesn't mitigate in any way what she did. I did notice and specifically watch shots of the crowd at the LIHS for the freestyle. Yes there were people clapping but there were...

Becky - WOW Loved it Wish she had beaten Glamourdale!

Just caught up on this thread. I recorded the RB last night as I have a habit of falling asleep in front of the TV in the evenings (!) and I intended to watch last night this afternoon (I don't mind spoilers). Having read what went on last night I have no intention of watching my recording and...

RB on Sky is 970. Thanks OP for the listing of the World Cup on BBC2 on sunday - hadn't noticed that.

If the yard is closing and everyone is looking for other places for their horses then it will be a case of fewer and fewer horses remaining, such that horses that your boy 'knows', even if he doesn't share a field with them, will disappear. It might be better to do the PTS before xmas and...

I had to make that same decision a couple of years ago with the yard having been given only 3 weeks to clear out. My boy was 27 but also 'special needs'. I decided to PTS as I also knew he stressed when moving yards previously along with worries that anywhere I found wouldn't consistently...

Happy Birthday to N. Henderson. Some fantastic memories in this article today in RP with Nicki's selection for his top 10 horses. https://www.racingpost.com/news/britain/nicky-henderson-is-celebrating-his-75th-birthday-here-are-his-top-ten-horses-of-all-time-by-racing-post-ratings-ayvjD6T8eg5i/

Question 3 - Old Gold https://oldgoldracing.com/ Most horse £60 per year per share all in. No monthly expenses. Good at communication - weekly email about the horses you have shares in. Easily able to have shares bought for you for b'day, xmas, etc which is how I've managed to acquire most of...

I'm another like bluehorse that has a WHW unridden companion pony who will have been with me for 6 years this coming january. I applied through the online adoption process and had picked out one of the listed companion horses as I can no longer ride but still wanted to stay in 'horsey'...

It's the (useless) FEI behaving like an ostrich again. As I pointed out above, in paragraph 223 of the FEI panel report, they decided to take minimal (if any) credibility in the 8 witnesses. He also did what some (often smirking on the way out of court) defendants do - claim 'remorse' to get a...

Haven't read the whole 120 pages but these were the soundbites for me. Paragraph 41 listing what he was accused of. Very sad reading for the horses involved. Also paragraph 223 listing the weight given by the panel to each of the witnesses evidence. (Sadly not much, if any, for most of the...

Also how must Alan D, that looked after them for all their competing years and afterwards until he retired, feel? Some of the posts on this thread are so unfeeling and I'm not surprised that Carl has switched off comments if some of what is being posted on this thread is a sample of what is on...

Gifted so free to read. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3cfad4061e8f16ea Wasn't it Sprinter Sacre that got pulled up by the jockey in a race (and saved his life) and it turned out to be heart problems?

I did wonder sort of the same. Didn't CH only start falling when the colour on the hurdles was changed from orange to white last year? Maybe he finds it harder to measure the location of the top of the hurdle at racing pace with the top rail being white.