The Pay Your Respects to Dead Racehorses Thread

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blesses himself and beats chest once

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istabraq RIP

one of the greats

sired from sadlers well & foaled in 1992

Equine lovers everywhere will have found memories

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A serious point to point horse. Won 10 and placed in 4, from 15 starts between the flags.

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[QUOTE=“thedancingbaby, post: 1119193, member: 48”]Fletcher :frowning:

Got a kick from another horse down at the start and broke a leg[/QUOTE]

He should be okay if it’s just a broken leg, mate.

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Aye, it’s the lead that will really do for him.

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[QUOTE=“The Selfish Giant, post: 1119197, member: 80”]istabraq RIP

one of the greats

sired from sadlers well & foaled in 1992

Equine lovers everywhere will have found memories[/QUOTE]

If that is true the Limerck/Cork minor game will be off tomorrow evening

fond memories indeed

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[QUOTE=“ciarancareyshurlingarmy, post: 1119206, member: 464”]If that is true the Limerck/Cork minor game will be off tomorrow evening

fond memories indeed[/QUOTE]

I think with him, you could genuinely say he was one of the greatest ever, up there with black caviar & lamtarra

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Seedling lost his life in the opener at Aintree.

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Balder Succes :frowning:

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[QUOTE=“thedancingbaby, post: 1122114, member: 48”]Balder Succes :frowning:
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THERE was a tragic postscript to the Grand National meeting on Sunday when dual Grade 1-winning chaser Balder Succes was put down due to injuries suffered on the second day.

He had been transferred to the Leahurst Equine Hospital following his third-fence fall in Friday’s Melling Chase but trainer Alan King reported on Sunday: "We lost him this morning. He damaged his right shoulder and it was irreparable.

“It is devastating for everyone and a hell of a blow as horses as good as him don’t come along very often.”

Balder Succes had won the Grade 1 Maghull Novices’ Chase at the National meeting last year and scored his second victory at the highest level in the Ascot Chase in February.

In total he won 12 of his 30 races and earned ÂŁ353,045 in prize-money.

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[QUOTE=“thedancingbaby, post: 1122117, member: 48”]THERE was a tragic postscript to the Grand National meeting on Sunday when dual Grade 1-winning chaser Balder Succes was put down due to injuries suffered on the second day.

He had been transferred to the Leahurst Equine Hospital following his third-fence fall in Friday’s Melling Chase but trainer Alan King reported on Sunday: "We lost him this morning. He damaged his right shoulder and it was irreparable.

“It is devastating for everyone and a hell of a blow as horses as good as him don’t come along very often.”

Balder Succes had won the Grade 1 Maghull Novices’ Chase at the National meeting last year and scored his second victory at the highest level in the Ascot Chase in February.

In total he won 12 of his 30 races and earned ÂŁ353,045 in prize-money.[/QUOTE]
“Hopes for Balder dashed”.

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Cut down before reaching his prime, perhaps due to over watering (of the course).

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[QUOTE=“thedancingbaby, post: 1119193, member: 48”]Fletcher :frowning:

Got a kick from another horse down at the start and broke a leg[/QUOTE]
Murder, she wrote.

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[QUOTE=“thedancingbaby, post: 1122114, member: 48”]Balder Succes :frowning:
[/QUOTE]
STEVE AYRES, second head lad to trainer Alan King, was unable to hold back the tears as he described his devastation at the loss of Grade 1-winning Balder Succes, who had to be put down due to injuries suffered in a third-fence fall in the Melling Chase at Aintree on Friday.

The 31-year-old has been overwhelmed by the support he has received from the public after taking to social media to express his grief that exemplifies the emotional bond many stable staff forge with their horses.

“I’ve had more than 3,000 tweets and they’ve gone straight to my heart, but I really do feel I’ve lost my best friend,” said Ayres, who had looked after Balder Succes since the horse first walked into King’s yard four years ago, and who he rode out daily.

“I have worked in the horseracing industry for 17 years and I don’t know what it was, but something just sparked with Balder Succes, it was the sort of person he was. He was epic.”

Balder Succes, who won the Grade 1 Maghull Novices’ Chase at last year’s National meeting and also scored at the highest level in the Ascot Chase in February, spent Friday night in the racecourse stables, where Ayres iced his damaged shoulder for 20 minutes every hour before travelling with him to Leahurst Equine Hospital the following morning.

Ayres added: "He certainly seemed better than the day before which perked me up, and I certainly wasn’t fearing the worst when I left him.

“I went to work on Sunday morning and we hadn’t heard anything and I went home – I live only 100 yards from Balder’s stable – but then an hour later the boss knocked at my door and I knew straight away and just fell to my knees.”

The pain was still raw on Monday as Ayres, a father of two young girls, added: “I have had messages from so many people, expressing sympathy and wishing me well, but I still feel devastated, there is no other word for it, and although riding out takes your mind off it a bit, being in the same place we were together is horrific.”

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[QUOTE=“thedancingbaby, post: 1123568, member: 48”]STEVE AYRES, second head lad to trainer Alan King, was unable to hold back the tears as he described his devastation at the loss of Grade 1-winning Balder Succes, who had to be put down due to injuries suffered in a third-fence fall in the Melling Chase at Aintree on Friday.

The 31-year-old has been overwhelmed by the support he has received from the public after taking to social media to express his grief that exemplifies the emotional bond many stable staff forge with their horses.

“I’ve had more than 3,000 tweets and they’ve gone straight to my heart, but I really do feel I’ve lost my best friend,” said Ayres, who had looked after Balder Succes since the horse first walked into King’s yard four years ago, and who he rode out daily.

“I have worked in the horseracing industry for 17 years and I don’t know what it was, but something just sparked with Balder Succes, it was the sort of person he was. He was epic.”

Balder Succes, who won the Grade 1 Maghull Novices’ Chase at last year’s National meeting and also scored at the highest level in the Ascot Chase in February, spent Friday night in the racecourse stables, where Ayres iced his damaged shoulder for 20 minutes every hour before travelling with him to Leahurst Equine Hospital the following morning.

Ayres added: "He certainly seemed better than the day before which perked me up, and I certainly wasn’t fearing the worst when I left him.

“I went to work on Sunday morning and we hadn’t heard anything and I went home – I live only 100 yards from Balder’s stable – but then an hour later the boss knocked at my door and I knew straight away and just fell to my knees.”

The pain was still raw on Monday as Ayres, a father of two young girls, added: “I have had messages from so many people, expressing sympathy and wishing me well, but I still feel devastated, there is no other word for it, and although riding out takes your mind off it a bit, being in the same place we were together is horrific.”[/QUOTE]

So he definitely won’t run for the race he was entered in yesterday in Punchestown then?

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Not unless they do a Jessies Dream on it

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That 31-year old Head Lad seems a little bit touched. Strange reaction to drop to his knees when his boss arrived at his door on Sunday morning.

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Always pronounced the horse’s name as Balder Success until Ruby lost it at a Cheltenham preview with Davy Russell and said it was pronounced sousay.

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RIP

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R.I.P.