OMG, remember the woman who was anti - horse sharing ?

sorry....may be im being dim......

she wrote an article about how it was bad to share a horse (personally havnt read/seen this article).....but she was sharing a ex-race horse????
 
ImmyS said:
Sad isn't it? :(
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Very... What is wrong with these people?? :(
ex racers are not nearly as crazy as some people would have everyone think they are!

Mine has never put a foot wrong in 3 years and he was straight of the track... He is one of the best horses I have ever had!
 
all about Romeo said:
Very... What is wrong with these people?? :(
ex racers are not nearly as crazy as some people would have everyone think they are!

Mine has never put a foot wrong in 3 years and he was straight of the track... He is one of the best horses I have ever had!
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Same with mine... Any horse can be unpredictable or 'dangerous' in certain situations or in the wrong hands.. It's frustrating that ex racers get such a bad name. I think in many ways it makes them better horses, experiencing a lot of the world..
 
CobsGalore said:
I personally don't think the article makes the horse sound bad. I think it makes her sound inexperienced.
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I think just because the consequences of the situation were so tragic and then it is linked with the horse being an ex racer may just give people a bad impression I guess
 
How awful :-( I am glad that they acknowledged the horse probably wasn't bolting though. The owner had the horse 12 years so I hope it wasn't put down for being dangerous.
 
I didn't like this bit:

'If there is difficulty in a racehorse's temperament, which isn't there in other horses then the equestrian world needs to have that underlined.'
 
Emilieu said:
I didn't like this bit:

'If there is difficulty in a racehorse's temperament, which isn't there in other horses then the equestrian world needs to have that underlined.'
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Any horse can have a 'diffculty' in temperemant, whether racehorse or not, there are no specific difficulties as every horse is an individual.. Feel sorry for ex racers :(
 
My 21 year old welsh mare can be spooky, strong and ****** I off if she wants to and has a nasty spook on her when you are either half hanging off or on the floor......our exracer on the other hand is a star, you call stop him from any gait no problem and tries his best for you.

The bit about the letter to the BHS is silly, I know plenty of regular riding horses who are more temperamental and 'mad as a hatter' than ex racers. It's the people who have them, any horse for that matter, that's changes them.
 
what a sad situation. I fond my exracer easier to stop from a gallop than my ISH. But you do need to be relaxed and ride them the right way. I can imagine any horse keeping bolting if someone was gripping and shouting on them. Poor lady, I wonder should someone have spotted they were a bad match earlier? Or had she been getting on fine up till then?
 
Very sad as it could happen to anyone on any horse at end of day but it did say they didnt know if she jumped off (I think she had done that previously) or also inexperience of race horses. Horse was supposed to be good on the road etc. No one seems to have seen her fall or jump etc just heard her say "No No No"? Sounds a bit inconclusive & probably no one will ever know, most of us have been scared at some point perhaps knowing limitations etc I dunno Sad for all. RIP.
 
Havn't read the artical but a faulty workman blames his tools. I have had 7 ex racers all have been lovely to work with it all comes down to who is doing the training and understanding a horse regardless of breed.
 
This could happen to any rider.... NO one will ever know what happened BUT very distressing for the rider to be calling out for help just before she died. Dont think it gives x racers a bad time IMO... Im not the most confident rider but hope an x racer will be my next project:)




indie999 said:
Very sad as it could happen to anyone on any horse at end of day but it did say they didnt know if she jumped off (I think she had done that previously) or also inexperience of race horses. Horse was supposed to be good on the road etc. No one seems to have seen her fall or jump etc just heard her say "No No No"? Sounds a bit inconclusive & probably no one will ever know, most of us have been scared at some point perhaps knowing limitations etc I dunno Sad for all. RIP.
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all about Romeo said:
Very... What is wrong with these people?? :(
ex racers are not nearly as crazy as some people would have everyone think they are!

Mine has never put a foot wrong in 3 years and he was straight of the track... He is one of the best horses I have ever had!
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If you read the article properly you will clearly see that the blame has actually been placed firmly in the poor rider's lap and also the horse's past race training. Its just tragic and my heart goes out to the poor family and friends. It is not the temperament of the horse that they have criticised at all. In fact they are saying it was the horse's past race training that could have made this happen. The rider tensed up, tightened up the reins and lent forward. The inquest has put this as the reason for the horse "bolting" - basically it thought the rider was asking it to go faster!
 
If there IS any difficulty in racehorses' temperaments - and I'm not saying there is - its probably because 90% of the poor sods have ulcers. My ex racer is pretty crazy, tbf... But it's more 'ooh pretty colours' crazy than dangerous crazy.
 
ImmyS said:
Any horse can be unpredictable or 'dangerous' in certain situations or in the wrong hands.. It's frustrating that ex racers get such a bad name. I think in many ways it makes them better horses, experiencing a lot of the world..
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Couldn't agree with this more. People just assume that all ex-racers are mad, highly strung beasts that tank around at 200mph. Any horse can be like that..not just restricted to ex-racers. That is sad.:(
 
mcnaughty said:
If you read the article properly you will clearly see that the blame has actually been placed firmly in the poor rider's lap and also the horse's past race training. Its just tragic and my heart goes out to the poor family and friends. It is not the temperament of the horse that they have criticised at all. In fact they are saying it was the horse's past race training that could have made this happen. The rider tensed up, tightened up the reins and lent forward. The inquest has put this as the reason for the horse "bolting" - basically it thought the rider was asking it to go faster!
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I did read the article thank you very much! the horse's past race training is exactly the kind of impression that gives exracers yet more bad press that they do not deserve or need!
 
At the end of the day she lost her life, why pick over the bones? None of us were there, we were not on the horse and as there are a lack of witnesses everything is guess work. Its a sad day for anyone to lose their life in such tragic circumstances. The fact that she warned about the potential cost of sharing is more tragic as that is how she lost her life, sharing someone elses horse.

I hope she rests in peace.
 
all about Romeo said:
I did read the article thank you very much! the horse's past race training is exactly the kind of impression that gives exracers yet more bad press that they do not deserve or need!
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Only my opinion, AAR, but I think you might be being a little over-sensitive. The horse's past race training, from what has been reported and quoted in court and from what we as horsey people can understand ourselves, sounds like a perfectly valid objective statement of fact of something that may well have contributed to this accident.

Of course it would have been unfortunate - the whole episode is more than 'unfortunate' - but I didn't read it as giving ex-racers a bad impression or of actually criticising racers' training; I read it as an explanation of a likely contributory cause that is in itself as much matter of fact as 'I'm wearing purple socks today'. The fact is, it is thought she may have tensed up, shortened the reins and unwittingly told the horse to get on. Nobody is saying the horse was 'wrongly' trained per se.
 
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