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What a strange afternoon there. Let the fencers jump with risk of low sun then in the next hurdle race took them out on same line. Now in last race with it being dark almost again they take hurdles out. Anyone got any ideas on this as just seems completely daft to me.
 
This issue, which seems to get worse with each passing season, is now in danger of bringing jump racing into ridicule. No-one denies that jockeys have a dangerous job and are brave men and women, but it cannot be right that they are allowed to dictate whether fences and hurdles are jumped or not. That is surely a decision for the Stewards.

And how in the name of sanity did they consider it OK to jump the fences but not the hurdles? And then the final race run in near-darkness with the hurdles still dolled off. Perhaps this sorry pantomime will be a turning point, forcing the BHA to finally get a grip on the problem. But I'm not holding my breath.

Strange that they don't seem to have low sun in Ireland. Didn't notice too many obstacles omitted at Leopardstown or Limerick over Christmas.
 
OK. Didn't know that. Maybe not surprising that low sun is all of a sudden becoming a problem in Ireland as well.
 
I tell you what's more dangerous at Taunton, bloody RAF Fighter jets zooming overhead on low level flights. Seen them loads of times
 
It was obvious that Harry was joking, he knows that it's the horses that should be wearing the shades stupid_horse.jpg
 
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