RACING POST GOOD FRIDAY APRIL 6th
WEEK MONDAY APRIL 2nd TO SUNDAY APRIL 8th 2012
MEET YOUR HEROES
THOUSANDS expected to join in the fun at the Lambourn and Middleham
GOOD FRIDAY OPEN DAYS
GOOD FRIDAY OPEN DAYS
GOOD FRIDAY PUNTING TREATS
PRICEWISE GUINEAS SPECIAL HAS TOM PICKED OUT A CLASSIC DOUBLE FOR THE 2.000 AND 1,000 GUINEAS TO BE RUN AT NEWMARKET
ON SATURDAY MAY 5th and SUNDAY 6th ? WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WIN A VIP DAY FOR TWO AT THE GRAND NATIONAL
PYMAN'S THEORIES UNEARTHS SOME PEARLS FOR AINTREE
(Thursday 12th to Saturday April 14th)
IN YESTERDAY'S RACING POST TOM KERR -
ON ONE OF RACING'S MOST EMOTIVE ISSUES.
ON ONE OF RACING'S MOST EMOTIVE ISSUES.
"It's becoming commomplace to hear great wailing at the death of an animal in human employ. Unless, of course, the animal is being herded terrified into an abattoir and slaughtered, which is fine. ....
"LET'S make a case for our sport that's more judgemental than luck ....
We see here a bloodhorse literate handler- rider minding his horse at the races.
Making sure that this horse does not loose his confidence in a strange place with strange people all around.
We can see by this horses expression
that he trusts his minder, he is alert and at ease with his minder all is well.
J MARGARET CLARKE TURFCALL COMMENT
TRUE bloodhorse literate achiever's are not cruel, they are highly skilled. It is the bloodhorse illiterate who are cruel (without realising why or what they are doing wrong) A frightened horse, will panic fast putting everyone around that horse in danger as well as itself. If not minded by a bloodhorse literate handler rider. - those who do not understand fully why a horse bolts or fires off a learner rider. It is when a horse is left to feel vulnerable, unsafe that accidents occur, and occur fast.
TOM is writing here "Thank whatever deity you choose that US
"Whatever you think of the decision to stage a re- run of the Dubai Gold Cup, marred by two deaths after an earlier running had been voided owing to FOX HUNT'S fatal injury, we should be glad racing administrators are not made with such fragile spines as the executives of HBO. If they were, the gates would be closing on the racecourse in the desert for the last time. "
JMC
The whole world and all the people in it could learn to live much happier lives if they were allowed to realise the true kindness caring and skills of the bloodhorse literate.
TOM goes on:
"If you missed the Luck saga, here follows a brief précis: the Santa Anita set show, beloved by critics but not so much by viewers, involved, numerous race scenes starring
ex-racehorses. Two died in these scenes during the first series and the decision to cease filming was taken after a third racehorse fatally injured itself being led back to it's barn during production of the second series. In the words of the California Horse Racing Board vet who witnessed the accident, the horse "reared, flipped over backward and struck her head on the ground."
JMC The shocking consiquences of bloodhorse illiteracy.
"Unfortunately , these things can happen anywhere. The main difference between this happening on a film set and, say, a farm are that Hoffman is rarely involved with farms and neither are those representatives of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who waged a concerted propaganda war against the series, claiming it used old and unfit horses in production.
JMC In the context of the above paragraph the bloodhorse illiteracy of all the people around the horses sadly frightened these horses into traumatic panic, and through this fatal injury.
It can be noted in the careful bloodhorse literate making of the film about the life and times of BOB CHAMPION and ALDANITI , with guidance from trainer bloodhorse literate Josh Gifford - and owned by the Embiricos family without that true bloodhorse literate support and respect for Aldaniti's rights, needs, handling and riding ALDANITI fate could well have ended up as the above sad detail. ALDANITI was fortunate indeed to have such people around him from the day that he was born until the day that he died.
TK "The program makers insisted the safety protocols employed were greater than existed in racing "anywhere" but never the less said in their statement announcing the show's cancellation: "Accidents unfortunately happen and it is impossible to guarantee they won't in the future. Accordingly, we have reached this difficult decision (to cancel Luck"). You could almost hear the hand-wringing.
JMC The program makers were all bloodhorse illiterate. The people who kidnapped SHERGAR were all bloodhorse illiterate.
TK "It has become commonplace to hear a great wailing and gnashing of teeth at the death of an animal in human employ. Unless, of course, the animal in question is being herded terrified into an abattoir and slaughtered, which is fine."
JMC If every living person spent a day in a slaughter house perhaps that experience would put most off eating meat for the rest of their lives, or worse traumatise them to mental break down.
JMC If every living person spent a day in a slaughter house perhaps that experience would put most off eating meat for the rest of their lives, or worse traumatise them to mental break down.
JMC It is a devastating experience to loose a horse through fatal injury in a race, or indeed
anywhere. Henrietta Knight lost BEST MATE in a race, but this does not mean BEST MATE was being treated cruelly. The highly skilled Team behind BEST MATE ensured his wellbeing and training as paramount to his success each and every day, a brilliant training feat by all involved. Henrietta and the people within her team worked closely with BEST MATE over a considerable period of time on a daily basis, it could be said BEST MATE was like their very best friend. It is only natural that they would all miss him when he died, wherever he died, he was not with them any longer . JMC Recently there has been bloodhorse illiterate suggestion that KEATO STAR should be retired straight away and turned out in a field in retirement, as if such a happening would be like paradise on earth, KEATO STAR would be more than miserable if this were to happened it would be the most cruel thing to happen. Thank goodness Paul Nicholls is truly bloodhorse literate.
TK "But if it it's for sport, or frankly anything other than being knocked off to please our hungry tummies, it's a wicked thing to do unless the animal can triple-sign a consent form. There's a profound hypocrisy at work."
Britain and Ireland
TOM goes on
"IT IS evident that the vast majority within racing, at least in "In the meantime we race them, and sometimes they die racing. It is quite right to salute these noble animals when they die in circumstances entirely of our creation. Yet we rarely attempt to justify it.
"For all that we preface our festivals with fervent prayers for no fatalities (we might as well hope for no rain) and insist all that matters for horses to come home safe, because before long the cry will go up "well stop racing them!"
"If we want our sport to have a long and prosperous future, the case has to be made that fatalities are part of the sport. That they are justified because every effort has been made to minimise the risks and racing entertains or provides employment to millions.
"That was a case the producers at HBO weren't willing to make. The question is, are we?
JMC WARNING COMMENT
Bloodhorse Illiteracy among horseracing government is the lethal danger, not the horses or getting horses fit to race and racing horses. The wrong direction, enforced by bloodhorse illiterate men and women who have no business at all to hold any position within this true equine zone - BHA regulation government whatsoever, or within political government whatsoever this now needs to be picked up and sorted out within the true environment of this sport. This is a unique and very special sport and it needs specialist attention whilst we still have many true fantastic bloodhorse literate horsemen and horsewomen all battling on whatever is thrown at them, around to take the helm, to calm the storm and to gently get in order for once and for all time. We cannot go on letting the young ones down to include the horses any longer.
It would be lovely if Tom could start his own adventure into bloodhorse literacy from this Easter time. Perhaps he went to Nicky Henderson's this morning and met up with SPRINTER SACRE. A very good place to start if he did - the right enviroment.
It would be lovely if Tom could start his own adventure into bloodhorse literacy from this Easter time. Perhaps he went to Nicky Henderson's this morning and met up with SPRINTER SACRE. A very good place to start if he did - the right enviroment.
ALL AT SEA
Team Cecil
HORSERACING A UNIQUE AND REMARKABLE SPORT
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