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BumperD wrote: »

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/injunction-granted-after-horse-believed-dead-for-a-year-ended-up-being-entered-in-race-tomorrow-38936427.html


February 07 2020 06:12 PM
A man thought a broken down racehorse his company owned had been put down a year ago but opened a newspaper to find it was entered to run at Naas racecourse tomorrow, the High Court has heard.

Andrew Hughes, manager of Thistle Bloodstock Ltd, was granted a temporary injunction today preventing the horse "The Tartan Spartan" from running in the 3.22pm Hurdle Handicap.

STRANGE ONE

Owning/buying a horse is a minefield for the average Joe and or a few of his mates.

Get into ownership - great craic is the propagandist bs.

Lambs to the slaughter appears to be the way for the (new)small owner. Chances are if the horse shows any potential it'll be campaigned in a manner so the owner will sell for a fraction of the price only for the nag to improve 2 stone plus in its next few outings for new trainer/connections.

Ted Walsh on "Luck on Sunday" at Leopardstown saying he hates syndicates. I'd say he does alright. Reasons he gave were "lads not paying their share" , "people getting upset because he might have met someone once and Ted didn't acknowledge/remember his name when he saw him again".

More like he might be able to fill one or two lads with crap but if there's a dozen or so all the right questions would be asked and it would be harder to screw them.

Maybe I'm being harsh on Ted and over conspiratorial when it comes to new owners being treated poorly.

And on the offchance that the so-called no good horse was sold; bad enough if it's a gelding, but if it's a quality filly/mare/colt then the bigger the ripoff.

I could be talking through my hat but I'd take evens that such scurrilous behaviour has happened at least three times in the last year. Hard to know - stories like this don't crop up too often in news outlets.