Horse Racing

[dylanfanatic]

I like a flutter on the nags, and am usually pretty lucky, have a 5p lucky 63 cost £6-30p, a £1 ew x bet £1 ew double on best 2, cost £6-00, and £2-50 ew on best one of the six, cost £5-00. I pick em out off sporting life at about 6-30am, and check again 10-30 ish for non runners, before going to ladbrokes, who have '. best odds guaranteed' between 12-00 and 1-00 with my grid card. I am sick and tired of laying bets in fields of 8+ runners, paying 1,2,3, only to find trainers have 'pulled' horses at the last minute, and ballsing up my bet, (+costing me money) Trainers should NOT be allowed to withdraw horses after 10-30am on the day of racing, if they do they should be fined hard and the race classed as still having a field of 8+. The staff at my local 'Laddies' ALL agree with me on this. Some trainers are *** for doing it, Lady Cecil being the main culprit, but David Evans and Bin Suroor are just as bad.

[Graham-W]

Horses have to be on top form to race at the top level. 100% fit. Would you like to see a lame/sick horse or one which hadn't traveled very well being forced to race and cause injury to itself. The trainers would only tell the jockeys to pull it up as soon as the race started anyway.
Having said that, I agree they shouldn't be pulled for no reason and an inspection by the course vet should tell if a horse is fit to race or not.

[Ken4155]

There have been one or two cases quite recently where the trainers have pulled horses out at the eleventh hour because of unsuitable ground, only for those same horses to run the day after on equally unsuitable going but in an easier race. That should certainly NOT be allowed to happen.