October
JuneNow and then
After viewing a series of horse racing documentaries from the TVN vault over the last few months, my frustrations with current trainers have dimmed a little.
Whilst the mishandling of virtually every horse in the country frustrates me no end as a punter I now know that Australian racehorses have been getting slaughtered since the dawn of time.
It seemed that the better a horse was, the more determined the trainer was to run it into the ground and cripple it.
Virtually every serious or career-ending injury that a champion racehorse suffered was due to midless over-racing.
The worst of the worst was the running of a three-legged Sobar in the Victoria Derby of 1972 and Taj Rossi’s spring campaign in 1973.
I suspect Dulcify was in the same boat as Brent Thomson only speculated that Dulcify may have been galloped on and seemed very uncertain about it. When you think about it, the horse was attempting to run 7240 metres in 10 days.
The objectionable standard of modern-day training is simply a continuation of the way things have always been done.
Griffith (ACT)