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Retirement
Arkle was in plaster for four months and, though he made a good enough recovery to go back into training, he never ran again. He was retired and ridden as a hack at Bryanstown by his owner but in 1969 his condition deteriorated and he began to show signs of stiffness in his hind legs, possibly due to arthritis. As he found it increasingly difficult to walk and appeared to be in pain, he was put down in his box at Bryanstown on 31 May 1970 at the age of thirteen. He was buried in his field at Bryanstown.
In 1976, the controversial decision was made to exhume Arkle's remains and to mount his skeleton for display at the Irish National Stud. Amongst those who disapproved was Arkle's jockey Taaffe, who said: "I hated seeing his frame up there. I couldn't look at him for long"
No wonder Pat Taffe could not look at this disgrace. The stuff of nightmares really
Drop an email to the Irish National Stud Chief Exec and ask that Arkle's remains be buried with some semblance of dignity.
cbeale@irishnationalstud.ie
Arkle was in plaster for four months and, though he made a good enough recovery to go back into training, he never ran again. He was retired and ridden as a hack at Bryanstown by his owner but in 1969 his condition deteriorated and he began to show signs of stiffness in his hind legs, possibly due to arthritis. As he found it increasingly difficult to walk and appeared to be in pain, he was put down in his box at Bryanstown on 31 May 1970 at the age of thirteen. He was buried in his field at Bryanstown.
In 1976, the controversial decision was made to exhume Arkle's remains and to mount his skeleton for display at the Irish National Stud. Amongst those who disapproved was Arkle's jockey Taaffe, who said: "I hated seeing his frame up there. I couldn't look at him for long"
No wonder Pat Taffe could not look at this disgrace. The stuff of nightmares really
Drop an email to the Irish National Stud Chief Exec and ask that Arkle's remains be buried with some semblance of dignity.
cbeale@irishnationalstud.ie
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I do tend to agree with the OP,but I do think there are more important things going on in the world tbh.
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