Cheltenham Day 4 - Friday 14 March

rolling boh

he offers nothing to the coverage he is terrible

Andrew00

AP McCoy just said he never seen a horse at the festival looks as well as Sir Erec does

Shemale

Sir Erec 1.30,
Whiskey Sour 2.10,
Dinons 2.5,
Presenting Percy 3.30,
Pacha De Polder 4.10,
Dallas De Pictons 5.30.

Good luck all

kopite386

For my picks in work I've chosen

13:30 - Sir Erec
14:10 - Mr Adujactor
14:50 - Commander of Fleet
15:30 - Presenting Percy
16:10 - Road to Rome
16:50 - What's wrong with you

I have also backed so far e/w
13:30 - Quel Destin
14:10 - Mr Adjudicator
14:50 - Dinions
17:30 - Dallas des Pictons

mailburner

sir eric
percy + thistle
dallas de pic

road to rome
monsieur lecoq

kopite386

Right now we have a reason for if Sir Erec loses.

bladespin

That's one very chilled out horse (knows he's good).

Shemale

Is the ground really tacky or farriers crap?

A lot of shoes coming off this week.

mossym

sir eric, caid du berlais and dallas des pictons in a trixie
quel destin given it's money back if SE wins

also have Se, whiskey sour, commander of fleet, presenting percy and DDP in a mix of trebles and 1 accumulator

bets of luck all

charolais0153

bladespin wrote: »

That's one very chilled out horse (knows he's good).

Hes a beauty isnt he. Classy animal

BorneTobyWilde

OMG

NO NO !!

bladespin

That looked awful

charolais0153

Horrible to watch!

D.Q

For **** sake

Shemale

Ah christ, looks like he is gone

EPAndlee

That was horrendous

Slattsy

Ah that's horrible lads. What a shame.

charolais0153

bladespin wrote: »

That looked awful

Is it broken ? Terrible,such a fine horse

robman60

Disaster lads! Looked terrible

autumnbelle

Was that sir erec

BorneTobyWilde

NO ONE WANTS TO SEE THAT,Even if they have another back, would rather lose than to see that.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Leg breaker

As a casual, that is tough to watch.....

Thepoet85

I'm guessing that wasn't his shoe

Angliru

Horrible poor thing

Lucy8080

AH no...looks awful..very sad.

robwen

Toobz wrote: »

500k just went on sir Eric by one punter on the exchange, guess if someones that confident I'll use my free 20 on sky bet on him

They won't be feeling great right now

Angliru

Very disappointing by Pic. But like that matters now. Ah jesus

TheMilkyPirate

That's terribly sad, Poor horse.

jkbkhhho7t

Dampener on the whole day

Limestone1

robwen wrote: »

They won't be feeling great right now

Probably JPs money ...he'll be more upset about losing the horse

Joe_ Public

Incredible horsemanship there from NDB. Terrible to see the injury, not looking good but hoping against hope horse can be saved.

gazza1

Very sad to see.

peteeeed

Poor down , terrible

BorneTobyWilde

Sir Eric had to be put down

Daraa

Put down according to the telly

Johner

Devastated for Sir Erec, such a lovely well tempered animal. Didn't deserve that.

cruais

Inevitable just confirmed. So sad. He was a beautiful horse

Andrew00

Gutted

BorneTobyWilde

Can someone explain why a broken leg results in a horse needing to be put down?

Shemale

Two really classy young Irish hurdlers with massive potential lost at Cheltenham in the last few years. :mad:

SteelyDanJalapeno

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Can someone explain why a broken leg results in a horse needing to be put down?

Is it fatal for horses maybe?

Thepoet85

Wow that's awful

naughto

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Can someone explain why a broken leg results in a horse needing to be put down?

No way of fixing it

sham69

Very sad, was so calm getting the shoe fixed , really didn't expect that.
RIP

jkbkhhho7t

What's more upsetting is how quiet and proud he looked while getting his shoe done, he didn't deserve what followed

Shemale

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Can someone explain why a broken leg results in a horse needing to be put down?

By virtue of horses being horses, they have a lot of weight on their legs, they are born to run around. They take ages to heal too.

I read about some decent stallion who broke his leg and he was in a harness in his box for about a year and his lad slept in the stable with him, purely because he was worth so much at stud. IIRC he died from an infection resulting from the break.

WicklowBrave

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Can someone explain why a broken leg results in a horse needing to be put down?

Near impossible to fix it. You can’t tell a horse not to put weight on its leg.

BorneTobyWilde

naughto wrote: »

No way of fixing it

A horses legs are so complex I guess.

Widdensushi

bookies have the day covered after one race

SteelyDanJalapeno

Without wanting to cause any tension, as a once a year punter, I find it very hard to justify racing at the cost of something like that.