St. Nicholas Abbey ran like a horse with breathing problem

Didnt like GROUND

:)

could be but more likely feeling the ground and being a Montjeu will be inclined to hold his head high

ground was too quick for him underfoot, horse needs good racing ground to cut, confirmed RP form but todays conditions wasnt to his liking!!!

make a nice selling hurdler for someone one day

Ran exactly the same way at Doncaster, didn't inder him there.

The soft palate blocks off the pharynx from the mouth of the horse, except when swallowing. This helps to prevent the horse from inhaling food, a horse can only breathe through its nostrils.

looked at the winner before the race, won twice on very soft ffs

May need soft palate op then......watched it again, horses mouth opens a lot in closing stages as if gasping for air. First time under pressure in this race than previous runs.

Could be right.

Too bad to be true.

I would imagine some of his backers stopped breathing in the last furlong LOL

Stayed on quite well for a horse with breathing problems.

Another reason can be that this is the rapeseed growing season, more so in the UK than Ireland and a lot of horses suffer from equine hay fever at this time of year, with an allergic reaction to rapeseed pollen.....
ie. this post from Horse & Hound:
One of mine has hayfever, or to give its veterinary name, allergic rhinitis, to oil seed rape pollen.
She snorts a lot, sending a fine spray into the air, rubs her nostrils on her forelegs, curls her upper lip (Flehmen gesture) and headshakes with a sudden twitchy movement.
She doesn't wheeze or cough though.
It starts around Easter time each year, and continues until the start of June...when the rape is no longer in bloom.
Be interesting to see how he scopes after the race.

Breathing through his mouth..........ahahahahaha (again!).....

I think he ran like a horse who hasn't trained on.

I think he ran like a horse who needs further myself.

ha ha , pretentious**s, pay pay pay ta!! LOL

i'm waiting for willoughby to emerge and tell us all that the horse was "infirmed"

Interesting stuff Kenny, ta.

he ran like a montjeu over a mile!!ffs, stop looking for excuses, he was always facing an uphill battle (no pun intended)..judge him after the derby, more his thing!!

LOL, duffy .... "infirmed," indeed. :)

yeah he was out of breath,just ran a mile ffs

I got me some salbutamol ,serotide ,the f00kin lot.
Mind you i ran like a gazelle when the chemist asked for the prescription fees!

That's as good as the horse is over 1m on g-f at 3. Accept it

Tiny horse. No scope

a bit like brendon foster trying to keep up with seb coe,won,t run without a pacemaker again

The line between success and failure is very slim. Had the 2000gns been run today the result may well have been very different.