Surprised Poetic Rythm isn't fav.
Surprised Poetic Rythm isn't fav.
Looks to me like Singlefarmpayment wouldn't go past the winner there.
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A lot of horses in distress here today because of the heat. The course staff have been brilliant but some stable staff need some education: one girl thought kissing her distressed horse and keeping him standing still was good for him. Very unpleasant to see some of them struggling even given that the temperature is a severe exception to the rule today.
Struggling to muster any enthusiasm for tomorrow’s card
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Correct, he needs a squiggle.Originally Posted by Desert Orchid
Me too. Same at Newmarket. I'm having the day off.
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Me too!
Mia's Storm would have been the highlight, but surprisingly she's ducking the listed chase. She's entered at both Ayr and Punchestown next week and expect her go well on the better ground
3.50 this afternoon abandoned on animal welfare grounds because of the heat
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Don't get why they abandoned the race. Is it because they were mares? If not why does summer jumping exist.
They were saying it was due to the relative suddenness of the rise in temperatures; that the horses weren't used to the heat after a long cold winter and hadn't had the time to acclimatise to it. The distance of the race was a factor too. A number of horses were finishing the earlier races with signs of heat stress.
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I think this has to be the reason. Typically horses can acclimatise to high temperatures pretty well; it is only when there is a combination of high temperatures and high humidity that they have issues. The humidity today was 'only' 51% so that should not have been an issue; the quick change in temperature and winter coats does make sense and they clearly took the right decision based on how the horses in earlier races were finishing. It does seem anomalous but,that being said, it still creates a precedent and the BHA had better work on developing an effective communications strategy and get on the right side of what could be a tricky PR ride.
Last edited by pdleech; 20th April 2018 at 12:57 AM.
They nearly abandoned the rest of the card after the 3rd race. All the horses were by then being dismounted at the finish and doused with water and taken back to the stables after the 2nd race where, yet again, stable staff were literally trying to push horses up the horse walk who were suffering. Luckily the racecourse staff and vets were brilliant as some grooms had no clue what they were doing.
Surely it would have been the same on Wednesday, the horses would have had ess time to acclimatise?
It was with multiple horses in distress but there was more of a breeze on Wednesday, which helped. Yesterday was warmer and humid.
Last edited by G-G; 20th April 2018 at 7:48 AM.
There wasn't much in it temperature wise both days. Agree there wss a slight breeze Wednesday. Surely it has something to do with them being mares and were affected more.
Think having a mares card didn't work as that was as poor a card as I've ever seen at HQ yesterday.
Don't think their sex had anything to do with it, geldings were as badly affected on Wednesday, problem was it took a couple of races on Wednesday before it was actually realised there was an issue.
OK so it's Royal Ascot, a good time to review the Cheltenham Festival, this is the comprehensive Roy Waterhouses analysis and his rating of every horse which ran at the Festival
http://rwsteeplechasing.co.uk/notebo...alanalysis.pdf
Who is Roy Waterhouse?
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What ?
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