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There was a story in my edition of the RP, on page 2. It was small and easily missed by some but it was there.

You're right Bar, they wouldn't know they'd have four and a half miles to run. However, they can and could stop at any point - we've all seen horses pulling themselves up mid-race. Point taken though, although it must be remembered that these deaths could have occurred in a three runner novice...

The Daily Mail is a f$%^ing shitty rag deserving of nothing than to be used as cat litter. Utterly disgraceful how they're stirring the pot by a) publishing full size photographs of fatal falls b) then giving those scum at Animal Aid a mouthpiece by asking them for quotes and worst of all c)...

The point with McGrath is that he is getting worse and worse all the time yet still gets employment! I'd have thought that when Smithy & whoever else it was who was put to grass at the end of last year were put out that McGrath might've made that list. It's particularly daft in the case of the...

I agree, he interviews well, he keeps his cool and he rides well. Hopefully the criticism of his jockeyship can now be put to bed.

Word is that Peter Toole isn't in a great condition following his fall at Aintree today. A lot of jockeys on Twitter asking for prayers for him and Cornelius Lysaght reporting doctors say he is in critical condition whilst Whitcoombe House (Charlie Mann's yard) add that he is being kept sedated...

Omitting those fences was the only possible way forward in terms of safety today. We still would have seen the tarpaulin had they jumped Becher's, yet also have the unedifying sight of watching horses dodge it. Interestingly enough I've seen no reports of Ballabriggs bleeding. I'll have to...

Good luck Martin, hope he runs well for you. He shouldn't be far off I'm sure.

It's the ".....and we lost one there, it's erm, it's erm, uh, we'll get back to that, and they carry on and the faller was, erm, it was, erm, erm, erm, erm, it was Calgary Bay! " which gets me. Surely there should be a ban on commentators using "erm..." ??

I'm not after a ruck either, Songsheet - just pointing out that horses are lost all the time in other circumstances, even flat racing, as you know. Krizon has highlighted in another thread that two horses were lost on the flat today, as well. I can see what you are saying about the Grand...

I was trying to work out which horse Fitzy was watching when he said Reve de Sivola was jumping so well! Rishi Persad and Richard Pitman want their invasive microphones shoved where the sun don't shine, (I'm surprised no jockey nor Willie Mullins did so) as does Gary Wiltshire who seemed to be...

Clare Balding is reporting on Twitter that the fatalities were Ornais and Dooneys Gate.

It is very sad when horses die and we all get upset over it. But, that is what they are bred for and you and me both know that they can, and often do, die at home when safe and well. We lost one to colic last year who was a happy, healthy horse who wanted for nothing yet he was found in his...

Royal Rosa loves these fences.

I like Royal Rosa and Ballabriggs.

Should probably have posted this earlier - but it should make a few grin anyway. Cantlow looks a beast worth following and should improve for fences. He's a right three mile chaser in the making.

Aland Islands looked a useful type winning the first division of the bumper at Exeter today. He looks one for the future, a grand stamp of a horse who will make a chaser in time. In the second division of the bumper I was taken with Swaling which, although looking a little barmy, travelled...

Sorry Kri, didn't answer your Pasternak question. I just personally haven't seen a horse by Pasternak that I like in terms of it looking like a racehorse, and his record isn't the Mae West which is a shame as he was tough himself. However there may still be stamina doubts lurking as well in...

Interesting cast in Camelot though, might be worth watching just for Joseph Fiennes....

Fish or anything seafood related. Physically can't eat the stuff.