Chaotic French chase becomes internet hit
Jul 12, 2014 0:37:42 GMT -5
Post by Jon on Jul 12, 2014 0:37:42 GMT -5
Funny! Unless you bet the race! "Fun" starts around 1:45 mark
Chaotic French chase becomes internet hit
Racing Post via PR
BY SCOTT BURTON
IT SEEMS that, on occasion, walking the course might prove something of a waste of time. That was certainly the case with the beginners' chase on Sunday at Castera-Verduzan, an hour to the north-west of Toulouse.
The field was scattered to the four winds attempting to navigate a particularly tight intersection on the track, with the majority of the eleven runners finding an ingenious variety of ways to take the wrong course.
Amid the mayhem Maxime Le Galliard was one of only two jockeys to head off in the right direction and probably deserves bonus points for avoiding a potential near miss when two other riders cut directly across his mount Sairastar later in the race when following the (incorrect) cross-country course.
So it will have been with a heavy heart that Le Gailliard learned that he had been disqualified from first place for causing the original interference.
The video is already making waves on social media and has to be seen to believed.
Trainer Jacques Ortet told Equidia: “I've been coming to Castera-Verduzan for 25 years and I've never seen such a mess. Luckily there was no incident but there could have been terrible consequences when the two horses on the right track had to cope with the two running across them from the opposite diagonal straight.
“It's not a particularly difficult chase track to follow and, while some of the horses were clearly unbalanced after the incident, what I really can't understand is the jockeys who carried on racing on the wrong course.”
Chaotic French chase becomes internet hit
Racing Post via PR
BY SCOTT BURTON
IT SEEMS that, on occasion, walking the course might prove something of a waste of time. That was certainly the case with the beginners' chase on Sunday at Castera-Verduzan, an hour to the north-west of Toulouse.
The field was scattered to the four winds attempting to navigate a particularly tight intersection on the track, with the majority of the eleven runners finding an ingenious variety of ways to take the wrong course.
Amid the mayhem Maxime Le Galliard was one of only two jockeys to head off in the right direction and probably deserves bonus points for avoiding a potential near miss when two other riders cut directly across his mount Sairastar later in the race when following the (incorrect) cross-country course.
So it will have been with a heavy heart that Le Gailliard learned that he had been disqualified from first place for causing the original interference.
The video is already making waves on social media and has to be seen to believed.
Trainer Jacques Ortet told Equidia: “I've been coming to Castera-Verduzan for 25 years and I've never seen such a mess. Luckily there was no incident but there could have been terrible consequences when the two horses on the right track had to cope with the two running across them from the opposite diagonal straight.
“It's not a particularly difficult chase track to follow and, while some of the horses were clearly unbalanced after the incident, what I really can't understand is the jockeys who carried on racing on the wrong course.”
