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Hurdling fairly OK , dont see too many fallers relatively speaking .
But those of us who love horses and steeplechasing hate to see brave horses coming to grief and sometimes paying the ultimate penalty . Some top class horses came to grief yesterday at Exeter , none seriously injured thankfully .
Without paying too much lip service to the do-gooders who would ban chasing ( and have been largely succesful in Oz and maybe also in USA ) , can pure jumping be made safer without minimising the sport ?
Those of you who ride out / jump / point etc might have more insight than people like me who threw their leg over a horse a few times , looked down , and thought the better of it .
To me downhill fences are a bit dangerous , also would some sand on approaches and landing help on days when it was slippery ?
Topic for insightful comments . Cheers .
But those of us who love horses and steeplechasing hate to see brave horses coming to grief and sometimes paying the ultimate penalty . Some top class horses came to grief yesterday at Exeter , none seriously injured thankfully .
Without paying too much lip service to the do-gooders who would ban chasing ( and have been largely succesful in Oz and maybe also in USA ) , can pure jumping be made safer without minimising the sport ?
Those of you who ride out / jump / point etc might have more insight than people like me who threw their leg over a horse a few times , looked down , and thought the better of it .
To me downhill fences are a bit dangerous , also would some sand on approaches and landing help on days when it was slippery ?
Topic for insightful comments . Cheers .
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Downhill fences are dangerous and unfair for the obvious reasons,the worst fence in Ireland is the second last at Clonmel it has killed more horses because they are careering downhill and meet it travelling too fast.Clonmel have remedied it somewhat by moving it forward but i still won`t back a chaser in Clonmel.
The third last fence in Mallow is another dangerous fence that catches out a lot of novices and i don`t know why as it is a small fence. |