Chautauqua

From behind the barrier.

Nah, 8.8 ain't enough...back to the trials

Passing Through wrote:

anabel wrote: I wonder if stewards can just ban the horse, full stop.

That’s what I was thinking. Was barred pending successful trial. Failed to jump again. Is the bar simply indenifinte until he does eventually pass?

Muttering on SSR this morning that Chau must pass multiple trials to race in NSW

rem286 wrote: Sad way for a horse like him to end his career.

Chaut has just got it all worked out! Why bust a gut running around a track when if he just stands there he'll get taken back to his comfy stable and have a feed without doing any work at all. It probably goes back to being scratched at the barrier at MV that night , which would have put the idea in his head. I don't think anyone could be 100% sure he'd jump every time now no matter how much work you did with him.

i think it was worth giving him another go but surely now he is telling them he doesn't want to be there

If they're going to persist with Chautauqua they should trial him 3 times on raceday between races to see if the adrenaline of raceday gets him going. 8 o'clock in the morning with no atmosphere probably does nothing. I say this only if they persist with him.

VSP. wrote: rem286 wrote: Sad way for a horse like him to end his career. I was thinking the same thing - horrible way for a star to go out by being banned from racing.

He’s not obviously in any pain so I can think of some worse ways to end a career.
I actually quite like the way that he seems to be making the decision and controlling the end to his racing career.

Just retire him already... if it was any other horse he would’ve been banished already.
Look at what happened to Survived on Saturday.

Wayne Hawkes phone interview to be on racing.com ch78 at 3.40pm eastern. So, two minutes

I admire the sneaky grey bugger. Smarter than the average bear.

Tlazolteotl wrote: I admire the sneaky grey bugger. Smarter than the average bear.

Agreed.

If the owners want to keep forking out for the horse to be prepared for barrier trials i do not see the problem.

The horse is not being tortured.

How somebody can compare it with Survived is just idiotic in the extreme.

Gay3 wrote: djebel wrote: How somebody can compare it with Survived is just idiotic in the extreme. How is it any different? They're similar ages, both 'supposedly' perfectly sound. Survived & other race day/training fatalities underline the fact that no matter how many experts stress they are sound, no one is infallible. The only difference is the grey horse has worked out how to avoid breaking down irreparably.

He could just as likely break a leg galloping in his paddock.

It is a nonsense to compare them, it is hysterical nonsense.