GRAND NATIONAL 2013

amage said:
The way he was wobbling it looked like a heart attack and certainly watching the rerun it sadly looks like he is gone.
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Been confirmed that after a serious injury he sadly collapsed and died. He has been a super super horse for the Walsh family. RIP Battlefront.
 
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I don't think C4 needed to say as much as they did about it as it will just give more ammunition for those who don't like the National. Yes the Foxhunters is run over the fences but this race is much shorter with a completely different quality of horse to the National itself.
 
Thing is, you can't blame fences/ground conditions/speed/colour of the grass if it was a heart attack.

But guess the numpties don't realise this :(
 
Very sad, but they have just confirmed he didn't fall, Katie pulled him up and he then collapsed.

Meant to add, It wont make a difference how he died to people that want to add another death to their statistics of the anti National campaign
 
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teapot said:
Thing is, you can't blame fences/ground conditions/speed/colour of the grass if it was a heart attack.

But guess the numpties don't realise this :(
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Well said....it was a brilliant race and a brilliant result and a heart attack can happen anywhere....I thought the all the jumps rode well although some of them look much easier than before and some of them still up to height which maybe caught some of them out. Great that it was won by a small northern stable who beat all the big trainers.
 
Daffodil said:
Alec: I'm torn between needing to know what happens - and watching it, and running away from the whole thing, having recorded it to see later if they all come home safely.

Still haven't decided what to do on Saturday (or the other races over the National course either!)
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I'm usually the same. If I'm off work, I somehow manage to sit through it, peeping through my fingers, with my heart in my mouth. Enjoying the spectacle, but willing them all back safely at the same time.
This year, my (horsey!) friend, has rather selfishly decided to renew her wedding vows at 4pm on the day!
I will be at the do all evening, and am out on a hunt ride on Sunday, so will have to try and avoid all news/social media until I get a chance to watch it, because a) I don't want to know the winner, and B) I won't want to see it if something bad happens.

Something tells me I may fail in this quest!
 
bonny said:
There was a rumour during the horsemeat scandal that they ended up in pies although the authorities denied it, not surprisingly.
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Wasn't one of the dodgy owners of one of the horsemeat plants quoted as saying they took horses away from Aintree?

I can't imagine there's a racehorse in the land that hasn't has some "not for human consumption" drug or another.
 
bonny said:
There was a rumour during the horsemeat scandal that they ended up in pies although the authorities denied it, not surprisingly.
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The only horses that go for human consumption have to be slaughtered in an abattoir. They certainly won't be using bodies that have lain in the dead truck all day.
 
Caledonia said:
The only horses that go for human consumption have to be slaughtered in an abattoir. They certainly won't be using bodies that have lain in the dead truck all day.
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I only said it was a rumour.....not that it was true ! I imagine they are incinerated.
 
fburton said:
Presumably it's more likely to happen during exertion though?
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Possibly but not 100% definitely. Could quite easily happen on the gallops at home or in a stable, or walking back to the yard.

You CANNOT blame a course of fences for the cause of a heart attack but methinks that's what is going to happen given it's the National meeting and it was during a race over the GN fences.

Just feel sad for the team and the lad/lass with an empty box :(
 
Most horses from racecourses will go for cremation. It is very rare, and hugely exspensive to take one home to bury. Some will go for PM's first - in the case of heart attacks or if there was anything suspicious about the horses injuries (that's how Howard Johnson got caught out).
 
As a complete turn around of the current argument for better times:

My ginger square Tap Night has just come 2nd to Captain Conan at Aintree in the Novices Chase :D :D :D Cracking run, only slightly miffed as we beat CC at Kelso last year but hey ho! Rock On The Tap Night!!!
 
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