Hey L.C..... One week to go. British Steeplechase

[Oscar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBTG3ZDseg4

I think Her Majesty Is putting In an appearance for The Gold Cup. I'll give her your regards.

Kauto Is yet to be confirmed after he was Injured during training and at 12 years old now, we can only pray.

[Sterling]

Terrific. Chase commentary by Mock's new "Dickless" Francis.

[IMaDick]

Terrific. Chase commentary by Mock's new "Dickless" Francis.

Get a fucking grip.

[Sterling]

Terrific. Chase commentary by Mock's new "Dickless" Francis.

Get a fucking grip.

Try not to be such an egotist or cultural illiterate.

[IMaDick]

Terrific. Chase commentary by Mock's new "Dickless" Francis.

Get a fucking grip.

Try not to be such an egotist or cultural illiterate.

Try not to make me feel the need to tell you to get a fucking grip in the future.

[Lady Cop]

oops...i thought your pic didn't work Sterling.

[Lady Cop]

Cheltenham today
Richard Johnson fell badly on Wishfull Thinking during the second day of racing at the famous event
Mr Johnson was riding Wishfull Thinking when it fell at the final fence of the first circuit and crashed into the inside barrier, into a group of spectators and photographers.
camilla looks horrified. maybe had a couple quid on the horse.

rider and horse are OK

[Duchess]

It's so sucky to see a horse go down & it's even worse when they bring the screen out to shield our view.

[Oscar]

I was there when this happened...

It was In the Queen Mother Champion Chase and the Horse was called 'Wishful Thinking'... The horse was totally unscathed unlike the Jockey and the French Photographer who was stretchered off to hospital. Last we heard, he had a broken nose and stitches In his face In the shape of a horseshoe.
The jockey rode the next day, a little bruised but OK.

Princess Anne was also there on day 4, the Gold Cup but we were really hoping for the Queen to come down and watch her horse 'Barbers Shop' compete In the ' Foxhunter's Chase' on the last day but she sent Anne and Zara.

Almost 300,000 attended the Festival..... Two horses, real racing Super Stars were cheered as they were led out onto the track.
When both were led out for their races, the roof came off. They were cheered out onto the track, cheered throughout the races and cheered back to their box stalls.... no-one cheered Camilla... Kauto Star and Big Bucks.

Five horses lost their lives during the four day Festival.

[Oscar]

Here you go LC... Footage of the race

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZB9aexQSBs

I actually had the first three In a combination tricast which paid ¹⁹⁄₁ In this race but just out of loyalty to the bloodstock, I did also have an each way bet on the baby brother of Kauto Star. He'd only been seen once before In England and only just 6 years old and one of the smallest horses I've ever seen.....Kauto Stone.. oh dear... maybe his big brother can teach him to pick his feet up on those jumps.

[Oscar]

The Gold Cup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtO__k7bYY

[Cynical Ninja]

Five horses lost their lives during the four day Festival.

Disgusting, a blood sacrifice to keep the hoorrah henrys happy and to make the bookies ill gotten gains.

[Oscar]

Five horses lost their lives during the four day Festival.

Disgusting, a blood sacrifice to keep the hoorrah henrys happy and to make the bookies ill gotten gains.

Yes, that's a widely argued point and In many respects, I agree to a point.

I've been Involved with National Hunt Steeple Chasing all of my life and my brother races horses. I agree, It's heartbreaking to see them lose their lives especially when they are Champions such as ' Garde Champetre' and 'Sctsirish' two of the five who died at Cheltenham but I know enough trainers and owners to know how well they are treated and valued. The good heavily outweighs the bad In racing. For eg In the Gold Cup, Kauto Star was believed fit after a fall In training at home In Somerset three weeks prior. As he took the water jump, his jockey Ruby Walsh felt him wince with pain and pulled him up. That Is testament to the well being of the horses.
I have had this argument many a time with a twat called Spit on another forum but the It's nothing to do with the bookies.
When you have festivals such as Aintree or Cheltenham, most of the punters there are there to see the horses not so much to bet. It's the only opportunity anyone who loves horses has to get very close to the finest thoroughbreds of our generation.
The bookies are Insignificant.... It's about horses, riders, trainers and owners... not the bookies.

You think that's bad? Wait until saturday's Grand National... If It rains all week and the ground turns to mud, It'll be carnage.

[Lady Cop]

The Grand National today. many more excellent photos at link below.

The Grand National lived up to its reputation for drama and tragedy in an equal measure today, as an outsider won after a nail-biting photo finish and the race favourite was killed after a horror fall.

Neptune Collonges ridden by Daryl Jacob, and a ³³⁄₁ shot, raced nose-to-nose with Sunnyhillboy after soaring past Katie Walsh on Sea Bass, who, in third place, became the highest placed female jockey ever to finish.

But in tragic scenes the race-favourite Synchronised, ridden by Tony McCoy, had to be put down after suffering an injury when he fell just minutes into the race at the infamous Becher's Brook sixth fence.

Neptune Collonges went on to give viewers a pulsating climax to the four-and-a-half-mile marathon at Aintree as it became the first grey to win the world's most famous steeplechase since Nicolaus Silver in 1961.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1s2YHIFQa

[Jezreel]

I hate hearing when horses lose their lives in the grand national, it is such a huge event in England, for weeks all anybody talks about is who they are betting on or how horrible it is and should be banned. Never been but did get the chance to go to ascot once, was quite an experience.