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Running loose
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Its so shameful and embarrassing for Uk racing but somehow nobody is accountable for all the delays and incompetence
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Outriders, outriders, outriders. The BHA and racecourses here will never use this obvious means
of catching loose horses. |
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Next thing you know the race will be abandoned because the runners have been standing around too
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The other Gosden now a NR
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What a joke this loading process has become.
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I can still remember a prolific sprinter called Grey Desire (a shortie) ran loose before a 6f prestige race (could be the Haydock Sprint) some years ago. He still ran but finished 2nd. I was one of the mugs who backed him before his extra-exertion before the race.
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The only stalls the Gosdens know are the ones at the london Palladium!
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Best handlers in the world.
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Got to love the BF Reduction factor. My 3.85 lay in the EW market was reduced to 1.08.
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The poor stall handlers hands are tied by the new woke generation....Get the Long Tom round there arse and they will be in like a shot ffs.
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Roggrain , yes yes yes !
Outriders are the sensible and rather obvious answer . Quite why they don't have them when they are seen to good effect in other jurisdictions. We use them at the pt 2 pt and they are worth their weight in gold for catching the loose ones , especially as they are herd animals and if you have a loose one it will tend not to run away from another horse if one comes up with a rider on it making it easy to catch. Far easier than a person trying to catch it on foot and the horse jinking around them and galloping offon a jolly for 20mins. Only ever going to be 1 winner when a horse gallops off at 30mph. |