Towcester race voided

[bloodnok]

Cue the cries for the re-mount rule to be scrapped. personally I think it is a very sensible rule and this is kind of thing is bound to happen.

It will happen in a big race one day to, but that does not make the rule wrong IMO.

 

[krizon]

Does it apply to where you've just been unshipped, as well? That strikes me as unfair if it does, since if your horse just "banished you from the saddle" as I heard it described recently, and didn't slip, spraddle, or fall, then it seems reasonable to climb back aboard if you can. But for sure, if the horse has fallen, I'd not wish to see it remounted, not even for a lazy canter back to the stables, as Ruby is guilty of doing on several occasions, and which I still see happen in Ireland. It doesn't matter how soft the fall is - tissue damage might've occurred, and you're only adding to the damage by putting your weight on the horse and asking it to go on.

 

[bloodnok]

http://www.racingpost.com/news/hors...voided-following-last-fence-chaos/830903/top/

watch it here, two left in the race, the leader jumped the fence with the jockey in the process of being unseated. The leading horse is on the deck on the other side of the fence as the second place horse jumps it, nearly landing on top of the prone horse. The jockey on the second horse is unseated for my money.