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Feeling Peckish 14yo and Peak Season 15yos are both going to York sales on Friday. Hopefully the BHA or a charity will step in and save these two old stalwarts.
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Perhaps they should step in and stop Michael Chapman being allowed to train horses.
For the slow of thinking, please explain what is sad Steamship?
Won't they either get sold or not at the sales?
Your post implies something bad may happen to these horses but I can't read between the lines what you mean.
Won't they either get sold or not at the sales?
Your post implies something bad may happen to these horses but I can't read between the lines what you mean.
I was following the story on Twitter and there were concerns that the horses may end up with the meat man, but it could be this has to happen to dissolve a partnership.
Just seems a shame that 2 horses with so many runs under their names have not been found homes without an auction house being involved. Lets hope it's a good outcome for all involved.
Just seems a shame that 2 horses with so many runs under their names have not been found homes without an auction house being involved. Lets hope it's a good outcome for all involved.
Thanks Steamship, I wondered if it might mean something like that going by the undertone of your opening post.
Jeez that's a bit harsh after the efforts these horses have made over the years. Hopefully they'll get good
homes
Jeez that's a bit harsh after the efforts these horses have made over the years. Hopefully they'll get good
homes
Peak Seasons and Feeling Peckish, the teenagers who controversially passed through a York sale in March, are to have their racing careers reignited by trainer Michael Chapman.
There was outrage on social media when Chapman sent Peak Seasons and Feeling Peckish to the York Horses Sale, although the trainer explained it was a financial dispute with the owner that necessitated that situation, and he bought them back for £750 and £520, saying there was "never any question of letting them go".
Retraining of Racehorses were present with an emergency relief fund to save the two horses if required, but they were considered to be in good health.
Sale outcry: veterans will be found a good home or stay put says trainer Chapman
Primarily chasers, Peak Seasons has run 167 times, and 14-year-old Feeling Peckish 139, and both are back in training. Peak Seasons was in an amateur riders' handicap on the Flat race at Carlisle on Thursday but was not declared on Tuesday, with stablemate Monzino running instead.
Chapman said: "I'm not the sort of trainer that throws horses out in a field or gets rid of them when they end up in the wrong hands; I had to go to the sales to buy them myself.
"The main sales weren't interested in having them so I had to go to York and it caused a furore, with people getting upset thinking they would fall into the wrong hands. But the intention was to go there to buy them myself and bring them home, which is what I did."
Michael Chapman: "Sometimes I think horses are retired too soon"
Michael Chapman: "Sometimes I think horses are retired too soon"
Martin Lynch (racingpost.com/photos)
He added: "Peak Seasons has been sound all his life, he's been in training many months and he's in very good form. He looks a million dollars, so when the time is right we intend to run him.
"Feeling Peckish is also fine, he's in training, ready to run. The BHA will be checking their welfare before they run.
"Fred Winter used to run his horses until they were 17 or 18, he won over fences with Sonny Somers when he was 18, and sometimes I think horses are retired too soon."
Chapman believes there should be more opportunities for horses like his teenage pair, saying: "One of the problems for older horses is they have these races for ten-year-olds and up, but they're all 0-135. It's a shame they don't have 0-100 races for ten-year-olds and upwards."
BHA head of media Robin Mounsey said: "We expect all licensed trainers to put the welfare of their horses first and we should not jump to conclusions that Mr Chapman is doing anything otherwise. Fifteen-year-olds can, and do, race perfectly safely if they are in good condition.
"However, the BHA carries out veterinary checks as a matter of routine on many horses and we will ensure that Peak Seasons and Feeling Peckish are given a full check-up ahead of taking part in any race to make sure they are fit, healthy and ready to run.”
There was outrage on social media when Chapman sent Peak Seasons and Feeling Peckish to the York Horses Sale, although the trainer explained it was a financial dispute with the owner that necessitated that situation, and he bought them back for £750 and £520, saying there was "never any question of letting them go".
Retraining of Racehorses were present with an emergency relief fund to save the two horses if required, but they were considered to be in good health.
Sale outcry: veterans will be found a good home or stay put says trainer Chapman
Primarily chasers, Peak Seasons has run 167 times, and 14-year-old Feeling Peckish 139, and both are back in training. Peak Seasons was in an amateur riders' handicap on the Flat race at Carlisle on Thursday but was not declared on Tuesday, with stablemate Monzino running instead.
Chapman said: "I'm not the sort of trainer that throws horses out in a field or gets rid of them when they end up in the wrong hands; I had to go to the sales to buy them myself.
"The main sales weren't interested in having them so I had to go to York and it caused a furore, with people getting upset thinking they would fall into the wrong hands. But the intention was to go there to buy them myself and bring them home, which is what I did."
Michael Chapman: "Sometimes I think horses are retired too soon"
Michael Chapman: "Sometimes I think horses are retired too soon"
Martin Lynch (racingpost.com/photos)
He added: "Peak Seasons has been sound all his life, he's been in training many months and he's in very good form. He looks a million dollars, so when the time is right we intend to run him.
"Feeling Peckish is also fine, he's in training, ready to run. The BHA will be checking their welfare before they run.
"Fred Winter used to run his horses until they were 17 or 18, he won over fences with Sonny Somers when he was 18, and sometimes I think horses are retired too soon."
Chapman believes there should be more opportunities for horses like his teenage pair, saying: "One of the problems for older horses is they have these races for ten-year-olds and up, but they're all 0-135. It's a shame they don't have 0-100 races for ten-year-olds and upwards."
BHA head of media Robin Mounsey said: "We expect all licensed trainers to put the welfare of their horses first and we should not jump to conclusions that Mr Chapman is doing anything otherwise. Fifteen-year-olds can, and do, race perfectly safely if they are in good condition.
"However, the BHA carries out veterinary checks as a matter of routine on many horses and we will ensure that Peak Seasons and Feeling Peckish are given a full check-up ahead of taking part in any race to make sure they are fit, healthy and ready to run.”
Didn't Sunny break down in one of Red Rums GN's if you watch the race stood at side fence waiting for the end. Still cannot watch that race.
So, he wants more opportunities for horses so old and useless that they can barely put one leg in front of the other then?
A disgrace to his profession and a laughing stock to boot.
A disgrace to his profession and a laughing stock to boot.
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