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chavman
24 Jun 26 16:50
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Seems foolish to me and a bad day waiting to happen
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Report isleham June 24, 2026 4:59 PM BST
Carlisle only 24 with light winds so sounds very pleasant
Report jamee1 June 24, 2026 5:21 PM BST
We're not
Report duffy June 24, 2026 5:30 PM BST
Are the horse boxes fully equipped with air con whilst they are carted up the motorway? or are they transported overnight when it's a little less uncomfortable??

The conditions may well be 24 with a light winds at the track, but getting the horse there is likely far more arduous.

Makes you wonder what it must be like for the livestock packed into confined spaces being transported up and down the country.
Report jamee1 June 24, 2026 5:34 PM BST

Jun 24, 2026 -- 5:30PM, duffy wrote:


Are the horse boxes fully equipped with air con whilst they are carted up the motorway? or are they transported overnight when it's a little less uncomfortable??The conditions may well be 24 with a light winds at the track, but getting the horse there is likely far more arduous.Makes you wonder what it must be like for the livestock packed into confined spaces being transported up and down the country.


The BHA rules are you can't race or transport horses through any 'red alert' zone.

Thur and Fri fixtures outside this zone but still forecast to be significantly hot have been brought forward to the morning.

Report Andriy June 24, 2026 5:44 PM BST
Tomorrow Leicester Nottingham and Newmarket are borderline, just outside the red zone. I'm surprised they're going ahead, given Salisbury and Kempton off today, and tonorrow's conditions will be similar.
Report Busyfool June 24, 2026 5:45 PM BST
if not racing will go as this thing will accelerate and these temps will be commonplace within a few years
Report harold_lloyd June 24, 2026 8:18 PM BST
is this a test as to how feckin dopey you are ?

just for all the morons , no is the answer
Report formoftheace June 24, 2026 8:53 PM BST
Protect from the heat like they care….hypocrites tbh….
Report formoftheace June 24, 2026 8:56 PM BST
Never witnessed a horse dying from the hot weather in a race before,seen many snapping necks and writhing in agony tbh…..loads of crocodile…

Hypocrisy,dreadful ……
Report uptheirons June 24, 2026 9:00 PM BST
Leave the hand wringing apologies out,Aceform.
24C at Carlisle today and cooler in Ireland.
Fatalities are part of Racing and if you cannot accept that,don't watch it.
Report DixieDean60 June 24, 2026 9:02 PM BST
Raced in a few places in France today, hotter temps than OP has posted.
Report formoftheace June 24, 2026 9:09 PM BST
44 in the South of France…..
Report The Knight June 24, 2026 11:32 PM BST
If we start becoming over concerned about horses racing in high temperatures and stop it happening, it will be 2 degress cooler next time etc. etc and we will soon have the sport banned.

No genuine horse racing wants to see horses harmed or in distress but let us not forget that every single thoroughbred in the woeld descends from horses who were born and lived in some of the hottest countries on earth.

Race horse may have fragile legs but they are tough and immensly strong creatures. Provding the right measures are in place - and they are with the policy of no racing when a Red heat warning is in force- the sport must then not give in to the do-gooders who want a perfect world.

There is no such thing as a perfect world, either for man or beast!!
Report Hugo-Hackenbush June 24, 2026 11:34 PM BST
thers a world of difference between high temps and excessive.
Report leif June 24, 2026 11:44 PM BST
Could be one or two forum members succumb to the heat overnight, into the weekendSad
Some fat lazy couch potatoes not left the house since 2019 convid.
Gentle reminder to drink lots of water, and get someone to collect your benefit payment from the post office if they are physically fitter than your badself.
Greggs and muckdonnys closing tomorrow - red eating warningMischief
Report Hugo-Hackenbush June 24, 2026 11:52 PM BST
Some fat lazy couch potatoes not left the house since 2019 convid.

that must apply to 96% of the forum.
Report Busyfool June 25, 2026 12:01 AM BST
they are descended from 3 horses removed from the middle east but the intensity of inbreeding and sheer volume has made the thoroughbred feeble compared to all other horses

if the darley arab, etc had remained where they were born they would have interbred with others. as it is they were brought to europe and the genetic diversity didnt come with them

horses have got no faster or stronger despite the quantum leap in equine veterinary science because the genetic defects hve been built in and made much worse now because of massively increased number of faols to a small number of fashionable sires, driven by greed for towelhead money and the fact they dont givash1t. fees are crazy, because of demand but with no thought of the damage caused further on

sires once covered 50 mares, now its 200

thoroughbreds could not live as a wild animal, or at least find it very hard, is my guess, but i dunno

old school owners didnt have billions to spend on matings in the scattergun way the towels do. they were rich enough but did not use state coffers to fund their hobby
Report Busyfool June 25, 2026 12:08 AM BST
and leafy with another hilarious post

should be on the telly. instead of the plant
Report leif June 25, 2026 12:13 AM BST
Morbidly obese, chronically useless eaters with nowt else to do but post here all day, every week of every year.
Where would the mites go outside of this cesspit?
Report leif June 25, 2026 12:17 AM BST
Betfair ought to pass on details of those spending inordinate amounts of time posting on here without trading.
Ought to weed out a few benefit layabouts who could be workingPlain, possibly using the very medium they use to post bs all day every year.
Report leif June 25, 2026 12:24 AM BST
Fat, indolent useless excuses of male blubber reliant on the rest of us to provide them with benefits including free cars, yes free cars to ride around in with free parking just because they are 'suffering' with mental issues or too fat to work.
Yet these bloated waste of spaces are the same useless c***s that blame johnny foreigner.
"love thy neighbour" anyone?
Report Hugo-Hackenbush June 25, 2026 12:37 AM BST
yes..bring back Eddie Booth.
Report uptheirons June 25, 2026 12:40 AM BST
"You white honky"Laugh
Report DixieDean60 June 25, 2026 12:47 AM BST
limp leify chuntering away to himself, might as well i suppose as nobody else with a brain cell will engage with his sh1te Crazy.
Report Hugo-Hackenbush June 25, 2026 1:21 AM BST
eye kon kerr wiv leaf.
Report hulk23 June 25, 2026 7:26 AM BST
It was over 100 degrees at chantilly yesterday. 

They brought racing forward fo first race 945am
Report sageform June 25, 2026 9:14 AM BST
I can see why stressing horses in public is bad PR but don't forget that thousands of people are looking after them every day in stables etc. and thousands more people are looking after domestic livestock. Feeding, bedding down attending to the needs of mothers and babies etc. every day of the year whether it is minus 10 or plus 35 degrees. They are usually forgotten in the debate about animal welfare and usually are not covered by arbitrary guidlines about safe working environments. I still maintain that cold weather is far more likely to kill people than hot.
Report sageform June 25, 2026 9:19 AM BST
Agree with a few of leif's comments about benefits for obese people but not about posting on a forum. How is Betfair supposed to know when someone is working from a forum post? I am now retired (and not obese) but I was always self emplloyed. Why can't I rant on here when having a break from heavy toil?
Report nighthawk1 June 25, 2026 9:57 AM BST
No simple as that.
Report richgit June 25, 2026 10:26 AM BST
....Well. it's 10.24 am here on South coast, and it's roasting outside,.......Those horses will be mullered racing in this at midday and beyond.......greed before welfare in my book.......just my own opinion of course.
Report 1st time poster June 25, 2026 10:33 AM BST
any free days gives people more time to advocate any uk 12f handicap winner travel half way around the world to run in the melbourne cup in the height of an ozzie summer or travel to breeders cup
Report differentdrum June 25, 2026 10:38 AM BST
It just emphasises how desperate they are to provide fodder for people to lose their money. They have a choice, the animals don't. So many weeks of mediocrity, and the week after Royal Ascot is never better than rubbish at the best of times. How difficult would it have been to have a complete shutdown?
Report Crawford June 25, 2026 11:20 AM BST
Australia the US and South Africa manage it all the time.
Report formoftheace June 25, 2026 11:33 AM BST
UK is a weak laughing stock in all subjects tbh…..remember one ham putting an idea for wing mirrors on the headgear for horses…..it would stop the interference……ffs.
Report jamee1 June 25, 2026 11:40 AM BST
Forecast a max of 30 degrees during racing at Nottingham and Newmarket today. Max 27 degrees at Newcastle, Hamilton and Leicester.
Report 1st time poster June 25, 2026 11:42 AM BST
1st suggested in jest pretending to be serious in his contrived arguments with alan brazil on talkport,bet he had a giggle to himelf when he saw ombudsman in shades last week
Report Busyfool June 25, 2026 12:26 PM BST
leif 25 Jun 26 00:13 
Morbidly obese, chronically useless eaters with nowt else to do but post here all day, every week of every year.
Where would the mites go outside of this cesspit?
leif 25 Jun 26 00:17 
Betfair ought to pass on details of those spending inordinate amounts of time posting on here without trading.
Ought to weed out a few benefit layabouts who could be workingPlain, possibly using the very medium they use to post bs all day every year.
leif 25 Jun 26 00:24 
Fat, indolent useless excuses of male blubber reliant on the rest of us to provide them with benefits including free cars, yes free cars to ride around in with free parking just because they are 'suffering' with mental issues or too fat to work.
Yet these bloated waste of spaces are the same useless c***s that blame johnny foreigner.
"love thy neighbour" anyone?



^ what has this to do with the op?

typical of this sadcake. he cannot engage sensibly on any topic and it makes him angry and this is the result. embarrassing, again and again. nearly 15k. all stinkers
Report uptheirons June 25, 2026 1:05 PM BST
Any recent visits to the Pool.Busy?
Report Busyfool June 25, 2026 1:13 PM BST
you is avinalaff

cant get in unless you go at 7 am. only last week a group of yoofs who dont go in for swimming usually caused havoc to all the families there by bunking in the queue and throwing chairs around when they got in there. one geezer was stabbed

as they do every year without fail. now everyone is searched on the way in, middle-aged ladies included as it would be unfair to single out one minority so evryone is inconvenienced
Report Busyfool June 25, 2026 1:15 PM BST
ang on. got me pools mixed up, its been that long   Laugh

no
Report Hugo-Hackenbush June 25, 2026 2:20 PM BST
leif 25 Jun 26 00:13
Morbidly obese, chronically useless eaters with nowt else to do but post here all day, every week of every year.
Where would the mites go outside of this cesspit?

very concise and moast probabblee hack que ritt.
Report saddo June 25, 2026 2:45 PM BST
You post on here all day.
Report DixieDean60 June 25, 2026 4:56 PM BST
Hugo-Hackenbush25 Jun 26 01:21Joined: 05 Apr 25 | Topic/replies: 591 | Blogger: Hugo-Hackenbush's blog
eye kon kerr wiv leaf.

Well i did say nobody else with a brain cell would engage with leify.

Seems i was right Laugh
Report Hugo-Hackenbush June 25, 2026 5:34 PM BST
saddo 25 Jun 26 14:45 
You post on here all day.

im out most days 10-30am - 1-30pm  6pm - 9pm.

ty.
Report saddo June 25, 2026 5:46 PM BST
Routine is good, respect.
Report brians June 26, 2026 2:46 PM BST
Why are we cancelling trains when they run across deserts all over the world!
Report saddo June 26, 2026 4:29 PM BST
Wrong kind of sand m8
Report duffy June 26, 2026 4:33 PM BST
It's the same reason we grind to a halt when it snows, we are not set up to deal with extremes, our trains are probably not extreme heat trains, in the desert countries, aircon is probably in every single building as normal, not over here.
Report saddo June 26, 2026 4:38 PM BST
We had shovels in our van in the 70s, so we could dig our way out of one job and crawl/skid to the next.
Different times, harder people.
Report Busyfool June 26, 2026 5:14 PM BST
surprised there was much call for ice-cream in such weather
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