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'Dangerous' fence at Cheltenham to be moved

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  • #2
    Huntthe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭Huntthe


    It was unfair. Horses who travelled and jumped well where getting caught out by the drop. Not a fair test. Good riddance.


  • #3
    westlife2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭westlife2010


    Thank god!! It did not matter how well your horse was travelling, or jumping, it was hold your breath every time with jockeys approaching the fench like beechers. If you pinged this fence you were in trouble because you landed too fast and knuckled. I rarely, if ever, have seen a jockey 'ask' a horse for a jump here because if you jumped it too well you landed too steeply and crumbled. Jocks would try pop it, lie back in the saddle rodeo style, and hope to stay afoot. Badly position obsticle from day 1 and totally against what jump racing is about...jumping!


  • #4
    gscully
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭gscully


    I agree, but from a spectator point-of-view, it was great. Safety must come first though.


  • #5
    Cantoris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 375 ✭✭Cantoris


    I think it's the right choice to move the fence. It was incredibly unfair. A horse could jump well and come down, while a horse behind could stutter into it and get away with it as his momentum was slowed. From a slightly negative point of view, it's a long run now from the open ditch at the top of the hill to the first in the straight, with only one fence in between. Must be nearly a four furlong run from 6f out to 2f out.


  • #6
    finbarrk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,494 ✭✭✭finbarrk


    Was that the one that Nick Dundee tumbled at? I was set to collect a grand that day!


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  • #7
    Cantoris
    Closed Accounts Posts: 375 ✭✭Cantoris


    There are two fences from the top of the hill to the home turn. I think Nick Dundee fell at the first one. The second one claimed Latalommne in two Champion Chases and Granit Jack. It's notorious and is seen as a little unfair as they tend to be hurtling towards it and it actually penalises a horse that jumps it well. So they have moved that one.


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