hoping Peachey Carnehan will be okay

it will be a sad end to such a stalwart of the game. Hopefully some good news will come through.

hope so. Hasn't been running well. gone on too long with him.

quite

never backed any of his wins and laid a few of em but lets hope the porr bugger gets through

According to this tweeter, poor Peachy didn't make it

https://x.com/Krissybobby/status/1945882871870157045

A real shame. I remember him being a hold up performer early days on the AW with some enthusiastic strong finishes at Wolver in particular. Also sometimes racing more prominently in the latter years with some success. Condolences to connections.

What a shame, he was a real trooper

Sad ending - commiserations to everyone conected to Peachy

Really sad..one of my favourites,along with stablemate,Dodgy Bob who I haven't seen around for a few months...Peachy's breeder and former owner is on twitter saying how sad he is and that the poor old boy had been kept going too long...I feel sorry for Mick Mullineaux and his stable

saw it run it's first race. Ran every week.  Such a great shame.

Fair bit of anger around about this.

169 races, hasn't really been competitive for a couple of years
and at 11 and a very lowly rating of 37 (well under half of what it once was)
maybe retirement was a suitable option.

Nope, 10 years service and 169 races
Unfortunately perished in a pointless Class 6 flat race, instead of a deserved retirement.

I think some have a utopic vision of a horse happily living out its days in a field, munching on grass, but perhaps the reality is something different, and while I don't know why they continued to race  Peachey Carnahan, I'm reminded of the words of Michael Hourigan, following the death of the formerly high class Dorans Pride as a 14 year old at the Cheltenham Festival having fallen at second fence in the Foxhunter Chase:

"He died doing what he loved most. We tried to retire him but he just stood at the gate and every day he waited for us to come and get him."

Horses race because they want to race. They enjoy racing. If they didn't, they wouldn't do it. A puny human couldn't make them. The rare ones who don't want to do it simply dig their heels in at the start and that's the end of it.

It's a survival mechanism after all - the faster one doesn't get eaten.