Just read newspaper account of the stallion Beltrois (see above) which crashed to the turf after winning the 4th at Flemington today with a broken shoulder and was then 'euthanised on the course'. Chilling words and a terrible story..

Another sad element to the article I feel was that the headline focussed on the jockey's fall, rather than mentioning that the poor horse had paid the ultimate price for winning against the odds (with its life).

That's racing I guess, but helps us to remember that the very core of the sport is made up of flesh and bone (rather than numbers, stats etc) and 4 legged beasts which can break the hearts of trainers, jockeys, owners, stable hands etc

LG


PS As it happens, I feel a bit sad that I had recorded the result of the race from a computer screen as merely an 'outlier statistic' at the time, without having watched the race or known much about the 'ultimate outcome'

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