Equine Retirements, Long Term Injuries and Departures

Knockanrawley retired. Was told this horse would win by someone from the yard last night and was going to put it on the will win thread this morning but as I don't bet myself completely forgot about it. Soorrreeee :ninja:
 
Kinkeel died today - 125 races and a happy retirement with a friend of mine in the midlands.

Also recently rip is Ichi Beau again, after a happy retirement :)

RIP you two


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What happens to all the horses after they retire? I know big ones tend to get nice retirement homes at owners or trainers yards. But what about the class 5 handicappers no one has heard of? Do they get PTS or what?
 
An awful lot get rehomed. There are loads of people who now take on ex racehorses to reschool before the go on to do other jobs or simply just as a regular riding horse. The RoR (Retraining of Racehorses) has any number of competitions in different disciplines from eventing to hunting to dressage to polo. Worth having a look at the website. Very few get pts these days as thoroughbreds have proved how versatile they are.
 
jinnyj said:
An awful lot get rehomed. There are loads of people who now take on ex racehorses to reschool before the go on to do other jobs or simply just as a regular riding horse. The RoR (Retraining of Racehorses) has any number of competitions in different disciplines from eventing to hunting to dressage to polo. Worth having a look at the website. Very few get pts these days as thoroughbreds have proved how versatile they are.
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Many thanks for this info. My next door neighbour is convinced ex-racehorses are simply pts once their racing careers are over so I’ll be able to correct her now


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I think the days of shipping them down to the local abbatoir has long since disappeared. Sure you will get one or two that can't be rehomed for temperament issues or chronic injury but i can assure you that it is a tiny percentage. Trainers like Lucinda Russell are currently advertising them on their Facebook pages for sale to go out of racing (all will have a non Racing agreement in place).
Older broodmares may be pts but usually not until well into their late teens or early twenties when they are approaching the end of their natural lives anyway and may well have age related infirmities.
 
jinnyj said:
I think the days of shipping them down to the local abbatoir has long since disappeared. Sure you will get one or two that can't be rehomed for temperament issues or chronic injury but i can assure you that it is a tiny percentage. Trainers like Lucinda Russell are currently advertising them on their Facebook pages for sale to go out of racing (all will have a non Racing agreement in place).
Older broodmares may be pts but usually not until well into their late teens or early twenties when they are approaching the end of their natural lives anyway and may well have age related infirmities.
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Russell is the one not answering my enquiry....
Broodmares: having churned out 10/11/12 foals and may not have aged related infirmities, but even if they have, are perfectly manageable but pts anyway, nice.
 
Quite upsetting to read this, warning there are pictures of the horse after the crash

The 27th of March was just a normal day for me, transporting horses up and down the country. I was booked to take a horse named Rockwood to Market Rasen for Karen Mclintock Racing. The day started well with the horse picked up on time, loaded and a photo taken of Rocky happily eating his hay for the connections. We set off in good time and Karen informed me it was her birthday, everything was good.
During the 3.5hour journey the conversation turned to the amount of crashes we see and the near misses we have had on these long journeys, in particular how many people we see texting. I commented that by the law of averages it is bound to happen to me someday, not expecting the six hours later, it would.
We arrived at the races, Rocky ran well in his first hurdle race, the owners were happy and Karen celebrated her birthday with a glass of wine along side the owners. We left the race course with Rocky loaded fine. He started tucking into his hay like a little super star and we set off.
As a legal horse transporter you do everything you can to minimise the risks, you have all the licences required, insurance, vehicle inspected by the FTA for DEFRA, however you cannot legislate for the other drivers on the road. We entered the A15, a road notorious for crashes and fatalities, we were driving along at 50mph as Karen was on her phone thanking everyone for their birthday wishes when she hears me shout F*ck. The reason being that there was a van travelling in the opposite direction veering onto my side of the road. I made the split second decision to put my horses box into the ditch as you can see from the photos. I had all four wheels on the grass. Sadly, this was not good enough and the van still hit us at probable a combined speed of over 100mph.
The impact was so hard it flipped my 2500kg wagon carrying a 450kg horse onto its side, completely ripping the side off like the top of a sardine can. You can imagine my relief when I realised I was still alive and to hear Karen say she was ok. The panic then set in as we needed to get out for Rocky, with the help of some very kind fellow drivers we got out with barely a scratch on us. We ran around the wagon to find poor rocky breathing his last breaths as Karen, the most caring of trainers, became inconsolable as he died in her arms. When we set off that day we did not deserve what happened and Rocky did not deserve to die. He was a kind horse that only ever wanted to please.

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There is more on the facebook post.
 
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