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Racecourses with big fences

  • 26-09-2017 5:03pm
    #1
    exaisle
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    Aside from the bigger courses....Punchestown, Leopardstown, Fairyhouse...which racecourses have big fences?

    Some of the rural courses like Tramore have smaller fences that horses can more or less hurdle....


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  • #2
    Custom Cut
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    Here's a piece on fall and unseat rate over fences at Irish tracks:

    https://www.geegeez.co.uk/why-horses-fall/

    Down Royal well on top followed by Listowel. I'm not even sure their fences are that big they just seem to catch horses out and are probably sturdier than fences at most tracks.


  • #3
    Earendil
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    Sure I read Mullins once say that if a horse can jump a fence at Gowran, he can jump them anywhere.


  • #4
    Kauto
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    Earendil wrote: »
    Sure I read Mullins once say that if a horse can jump a fence at Gowran, he can jump them anywhere.

    The third last and second last fences at Gowran are particulary difficult and catch an awful lot of horses out.

    The most difficult 2 fences in Ireland are the 2 fences in the home straight in Limerick. The amount of fallers and unseats at these two fences is crazy.


  • #5
    marvin80
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    Kauto wrote: »
    The third last and second last fences at Gowran are particulary difficult and catch an awful lot of horses out.

    From what I remember, you can stand very close to the last fence at Gowran.
    It's class seeing them jumping up close.


  • #6
    exaisle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭exaisle


    Kauto wrote: »
    The third last and second last fences at Gowran are particulary difficult and catch an awful lot of horses out.

    The most difficult 2 fences in Ireland are the 2 fences in the home straight in Limerick. The amount of fallers and unseats at these two fences is crazy.

    Good points...

    The last 2 in Limerick are on a downhill slope...mind you, why they ever built a course where they did in Limerick is beyond me....could they not have found a nice bit of relatively flat land instead of the side of a hill....the old Limerick track was, IMHO, far better..

    The third last in Gowran is met just after the final bend, when horses are probably coming under real pressure and the second last is a ditch....


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    mick malones mauser
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