Horses we would like to see retired...

krizon

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RACING DEMON. The time has come, and it sure has gone.

GAVROCHE GAUGAIN. I know he clambered into 3rd poz last time out, but that was after FFF, ffs. He's a big, heavy horse who seems to get one wrong near the end, probably because he is a big, heavy horse, and he's tired. Persistence will probably lead to the inevitable.
 
Orpen Wide (and anything trained by his trainer.)
 
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The jockey of Dancing Wave should probably retire, should have beat it's stablemate this afternoon.
 
For the majority of horses (other than the big names and a few lucky others) retirement signals a death knell in an overproduced industry.
I prefer to see them kept in training unless they have totally lost their love for the game. At least they have the best care and conditions a horse can have when being trained and are doing what that were born to do. This is greatly preferable to being put down or left rotting and uncared for in a field.
 
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There are an awful lot of other options to being shot or 'left rotting and uncared for', SteveM! Unless it's only Lingfield specialists who get the good post-racing treatment - I hear good stories all the time of horses taking to dressage, showing, showjumping, eventing or just happy hacking. We could honestly say the same for every horse and pony - God knows enough sweet little ponies, outgrown or now unwanted by their teenage riders, end up with a bullet through the brain at the knacker's. Dartmoors are being euphemistically 'culled' for meat as no-one wants them for riding, and the commoners say they can't afford to chuck 'em a few bales of hay during the winter.

I put the post up to flag horses which are particularly now out of love (if in some cases they were ever in love) with racing. Going by those I and many of my friends took out of it, TBs love pretty much anything else and adapt well to new challenges. I'd say they were more versatile than any other breed.
 
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There are an awful lot of other options to being shot or 'left rotting and uncared for', SteveM!
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Of course there are alternatives. But it is naive to believe that these alternatives are always taken up Jon! The industry is overproduced. Do the sums for yourself... Some find good homes, some are retrained and others routinely shot. Better to see them in training if they are still enjoying it (which doesn't necessarily mean at the top of their form).
 
I really did mean this thread to be about horses that ought to leave racing, Steve, not a polemic about the whole industry... :(
 
Black Appalachi. If he's out for the season he'll come back as a 13 yo which is going to be optimistic for him to realistically be anything like.
 
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I was the under bidder and the fucker keeps winning :D
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Jeysus! Unlucky so - what did he go for and did you pick up anything in his place?

Hurricane Fly to be retired for me - have a "thing" against him - don't really know why. Maybe the just the Montjeu thing??
 
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There are an awful lot of other options to being shot or 'left rotting and uncared for', SteveM! Unless it's only Lingfield specialists who get the good post-racing treatment - I hear good stories all the time of horses taking to dressage, showing, showjumping, eventing or just happy hacking. We could honestly say the same for every horse and pony - God knows enough sweet little ponies, outgrown or now unwanted by their teenage riders, end up with a bullet through the brain at the knacker's. Dartmoors are being euphemistically 'culled' for meat as no-one wants them for riding, and the commoners say they can't afford to chuck 'em a few bales of hay during the winter.

I put the post up to flag horses which are particularly now out of love (if in some cases they were ever in love) with racing. Going by those I and many of my friends took out of it, TBs love pretty much anything else and adapt well to new challenges. I'd say they were more versatile than any other breed.
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Whilst you are right about what you're saying Kri, horses - especially ex-racehorses - aren't worth the rugs they are standing up in I'm afraid at the moment. The horse market has gone through the floor and people are struggling to even give horses away right now. I'm constantly asked by people if I know anyone who wants a horse, or to put the word out about a horse that 'must go'. That applies to yearlings, two year olds, horses in training, retired racers, point to pointers et al at the moment. Suffice to say, anyone who wants a horse - from a 2yo to a pointer to a riding horse! - please get in touch, I know of a few going.
 
ARE ANY OF YOU GOING TO FECKIN' WELL GET BACK ON TRACK HERE? IT'S HORSES WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE RETIRED, NOT WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE FECKIN' RACING INDUSTRY!!!!!!!!

Christ on horseback, wtf is the point, sometimes? :D
 
Relax, it's only a forum!!!!! :o

This is what they do - go off track, otherwise they'd be fecking boring. Besides, it can only be good to let people know what's really going on in the industry, can't it?
 
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