blodwyn1
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How good is Flightline? He has had a very limited career and is likely to be retired to stud as he is now too valuable to risk racing!
Breeders’ Cup Racing
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bonny
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He looked as good as everyone said, a wonder horse but it’s sad if that’s the end of his career and we will never really know how he compares to the greats.
Crazy_cat_lady
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If he was mine I'd retire him he's clearly fragile and if anything happened to him racing that's millions of pounds down the drain
Elf On A Shelf
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Of the 7 top flight turf races America won 1. Britain and Ireland won 6 and made virtually a clean sweep of the places too. The Americans couldn't beat us on turf. We did not run a single horse on Dirt because our horses aren't bred nor trained for it. So the Americans obviously a white wash of all of the dirt races.
Maddie Moo
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Update on Epicenter who pulled up in the Classic from Daily Racing Form; “Epicenter has a lateral condylar fracture of his right foreleg, according to trainer Steve Asmussen. He is expected to undergo surgery tomorrow morning at Rood and Riddle.”
Hobo2
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We are in Australia at the moment so all the telly has had the Melbourne Cup meeting races. There is a couple of nice coloureds they have been using. Also the journalists talking to the jockeys after the race is on horseback. Funny how we have not gone down that route on our tracks.
Elf On A Shelf
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Christ could you imagine Matt Chapman trying to interview someone on the back of a horse!?!?! He would probably try and gallop upsides them for the last 100meters of the race sticking a microphone in their face whilst they are trying to ride a finish!
photo_jo
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To be fair to the horse he's perhaps not as fragile as his racing record makes out, if you look at his offside quarters he has a decent scar on it from being an eejit in the barn soon after going into training as a two-year-hence taking not getting to the track that year
photo_jo
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They went through a stage of having Alice F-P on a horse at Cheltenham, I did smile at the interviewer on Friday evening complaining to Ryan Moore (who hates being interviewed), that he was trotting too fast and her horse couldn't keep up (that was after Meditate's win).
Gamebird
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They do this in Ireland - Katie Walsh interviews for RTE riding Thousand Stars, who she won the County Hurdle on when he was in training.
bonny
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We did it here for a while but stopped when it didn’t go down well. I’m in the there’s no need to interview them as the jockey pulls up camp.
humblepie
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Not really into the immediate interviews but love Thousand Stars. One of my favourites
teapot
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Flightline's been retired https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/63529051