Farce at Fontwell! Horse finishes nearly last, but still wins race 🧐
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Dharma Rain was declared the winner of the final race at Fontwell after the first six horses home were all disqualified for failing to jump the third-last hurdle.
Nine horses went to post in the “From The Horse’s Mouth Podcast” Mares’ Handicap Hurdle and while Just Henny came home first, the race was awarded to Dharma Rain, who was seventh of eight finishers, but the only runner to complete the course.
Winning jockey Jack Tudor felt the situation had been “unclear” during the race, with the racecourse’s groundstaff appearing to be in the process of dolling off the third flight from home on the final circuit due to a stricken horse.
The first seven riders seemed to think the markers were in position and duly veered around the hurdle, although Tudor, who was at the back of the field, was not sure and jumped the obstacle, resulting in victory for Clare Hobson’s runner.
“It was made very unclear, it wasn’t done brilliantly at all. It looked as if the markers were in the correct position, it was a 50-50 call, but I went with my gut instinct,” Tudor told Sky Sports Racing.
“I jumped it, but it was very unclear. The others missed it, but I could see that the markers were behind the hurdle, so I went with my gut instinct and jumped it - but it was very unclear.”
Page Fuller, who was in the leading group on her mount Queen Among Kings, added: “The horse broke down at the hurdle, I was further back in the field and from where I was, the markers looked like they were in the hurdle.
“But once we’d gone round the hurdle, you could see they were past the hurdle. There was a flag being waved and the markers looked as if they were in the hurdle, but until you got around the hurdle, you couldn’t see they (markers) were behind.”
The stewards inquired into the race, interviewing Tudor along with fellow jockeys Jerry McGrath, Brendan Powell, Lucy Gardner, Harry Reed, Tabitha Worsley, Niall Houlihan and Fuller, plus the clerk of the course, the racecourse head groundsman and an additional member of the groundstaff.
Having heard all the evidence and viewed recordings of the incident, the stewards revised the placings to make Dharma Rain the winner and only finisher, with all other runners, barring Bluebell Sally who was pulled up, disqualified for taking the wrong course.
However, no penalties were imposed on any riders as the stewards took into account “the poor visibility, and the illusion that the chevrons had been placed in the hurdle - which was caused by the chevrons being carried across the course behind the hurdle, which gave riders’ cause for concern for the safety of all involved”.
A report will be forwarded to the head office of the British Horseracing Authority.
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Very humble.... he new he was right but was backing his fellow jockeys that it was unclear
exactly, he never wavered
Exactly. To say "The markers were behind the hurdle." and "There was nothing in the hurdle."
Means it was fairly clear to him.
Agreed. These jockeys stick together alot. Good to see
Pfft. It was unclear though.
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He knew exactly what he was doing, didn’t push his horse too hard knowing all he had to do was finish the race 👏🏻
An example of :: because everybody is doing it, it doesn't mean they all are in the right..
You dont have to do the same.. the choice is with you.
When it looks like all hope is about to be lost.. yet you keep going..just then..You are handed the Jewel Crown!
What a humbling attitude from Jack Tudor afterwards. I surely remember him for that!
Apply this to the current lies and brainwashing that's going on now G20 Wide! Funny how this isn't effecting Syria isn't it;) oh could it be it's because Syria is not on the BBC? The pandemic is only on the TV!
There is a valid reason they took the wrong course. There where people holding signs in the middle of the track behind the hurdles
Which means they should still jump the hurdle. They put the warning signs right on top of the jump is your supposed to not jump it. The jockeys fucked up.
Usually the choices are a lot more clear than that and people still insist on doing the wrong thing.
Yes funny how when 50 men are running towards a cliff the one man running in the other direction seems crazy!
Excellent commentating.
Mark Johnston, as always leading the parade and takes dead aim, some of his phrases.
Agreed.
A great example of not following the crowd! Just because others are doing something doesn't mean you have to. Always trust your own senses and go with your gut instinct on everything in life 👍
There is a valid reason they took the wrong course. There where people holding signs in the middle of the track behind the hurdles
@@ChristopherWhite-yg4hh exactly, there were men there with signs, and when it's a choice between going unplaced, and possibly taking your 1000-pound horse over a jump and past it, with the possibility of a fallen horse or jockey on the other side, GO AROUND, it's not worth the risk
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385 Hi I'm NofirstnamegivenIsle Of Skye and those who take risks in life are, usually, those who succeed...
@@Isleofskye the horse doesn't get a choice about the risk, but his life is at risk, too...jock made the right call, period, I hope he would do it again, if it happened again...and if I was the owner of the horse, I would continue to use him, without question (might even chip in, if he was fined)
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385 I am in full agreement but I laughed at "might" as, admittedly, I am only 66 years old..haha but I have never known any female friend to hand over money when they said they "might" do.lol
You raise an interesting point though because if you are the jockey and save my horse then why should you have to pay the fine ?
It was that situation where there's everything to win and nothing to lose. Cheers to him for seeing and taking the opportunity.
"Darma Rain jumped the flight"
Well, kind of, even thats a stretch, kinda ploughed through lol
Impressive split second decision, he weighed it up and probably realised he wasn't going to win if he followed the others anyway. And believing he was right, he could afford to take it steady and concentrate on just clearing all the fences.
Exactly, he had nothing to lose and all to gain.
This is a guy everybody likes.
Great call by Mark Johnson he knew
Slightly ridiculous to describe this as a "farce" and a horse finishing nearly last.
He was the only horse to finish, as he's the only one that followed the course...hence a worthy winner.
Listen to the jockey.
Also a humble jockey as he said it was unclear, but he never wavered, he was always going straight for it.
I don't think you've watched it properly mate it doesn't get much more farciacl than that
@@tmc7987 fact the horse was terrible jockey was good.
"those who proceed very slowly may, provided they always follow the straight road, really advance much faster than those who, though they run, forsake it"
Descartes, 1637 !)
Are you sure it was Des Cartes ? I can't see any Jockey or Trainer by that name...
No you see Descartes was a famous philo... oh I see what you did there. Touché.
May
Brilliant decision Jack Tudor... Instinct!
In Australia, we call this "doing a Bradbury" after our accidental Winter Olympic gold medallist Steven Bradbury :)
You're gonna make me search Bradbury
Back after watching a Bradbury video..
That was dope 👏🏿✌🏿
@@pmpdaddyt1218 the best part is that the exact same thing happened in his semi final too :)
@@firstsecond4578 he won gold in speed skating because there was a crash and everyone in front of him fell over and because he was way back in last place he cruised right on past the pile up, lol
@@chriskelly9476 you're forgetting the one before the semi as well.....lady luck visited 3 times....what a night...!!
This was your moment of fame. Don't be humble. CELEBRATE!!!!
The first shall be last and the last shall be first 🐎😂. Nice win, congratulations.
Very smart jockeying... New his horse was beat so jumped the hurdle knowing that if he had of taken an incorrect route it would of mattered little.
Humble and honest in victory.
Thourt jack Tudor gave it a peach of a ride! 😜✅
Fair play to the jockey
The obstacle can only be bypassed if the chevron/arrow boards are in place in the obstacle or if a course attendant(s) waves the field around the obstacle using a black & white checkered flag to avoid an obstruction on the racing line. That's the theory of it at least.
The course attendant didn't know whether to shit or bust and unfortunately he "shat the bed" in the end.
😆😆 excellent analysis !!
Love it. Wish I backed it.
Tudor had nothing to worry about. Why not go slow and just chill lol
The men with the arrows were behind the hurdle in the middle of the course. Then, too late, they started shuffling off to the side. Eight of nine jockeys saw that as “go around the hurdle” and one jockey, in last place with nothing to lose, thought what the hell, i’ll just go for it. The correct thing to do in this situation would be to give him 1st place, as they did, and give the rest of them 2nd..3rd..4th..etc...etc...They made a split second decision under unusual circumstances, and unluckily got it wrong. Nobody died. Change the winner, YES.... Disqualify the others, NO.......But as happens far too many times, COMMON SENSE just seems to bypass sports officials.
How can you award any placings to horses that didn't complete the course? They've either completed the course in which case they're 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc. or they haven't in which case they can't get any placings as they're disqualified.
@@adking18..The jockeys clearly were not trying to gain an advantage. The problem was caused by on course stewards with the arrows misleading the jockeys. Why should owners, trainers, jockeys, bookies, and punters ALL be punished by the stewards mistake ??
Well played Jack, no gloating.
Good Show of Intelligence!
TOP MAN JACK- WATCH THE MAJORITY AND DO THE OPPOSITE!!! JOLLY WELL DONE!
No, you got that video title wrong. The winning horse did of course finish the race first.
-The competition did not finish the race 🤓
What I'm trying to say here is the winning jockey really deserve an award for his display of fine Sportsmanship.
So.... there's a horse down on the course, the grounds crew is apparently signaling the field to go around the hurdle, and you people are acting like the one jockey who ignored all of this is a genius.
Great rider sheperd not a sheep.
There was a downed and stricken horse being treated by vets on the other side of the hurdle and if the whole field had jumped it and put the horse and vets in danger and then claimed they were merely following the rules, no doubt the stewards and everyone else would have said that they should have used common sense and sod the rules, rather than put the horse and vets in danger and the jockeys would probably have been given a ban too.
The fact that they did 'break the rules' here by not jumping the hurdle yet were not given a ban, tells you that even the stewards knew it was a farce, considering course staff had the time it took for the runners to complete a whole lap on the track to get the warning markers in place to let the jockeys know what they were meant to do.
Too long of a comment. Goodnight!
Jack Tudor should get the JP McManus retainer.
I'm sure there are rules about jumping ALL the hurdles and it is made clear BEFORE races so if you skip one, you SHOULD be disqualified
It must have touched 1000 to 1 in running on the exchange. Madness
Suspended betting
Excellent 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 😄
There is a play called The Great Uncertainty about a true story... a local point to point where the favourite was held back to come in last ... but as luck would have it all the rest went the wrong side of the finish post and the favourite won after all
Be at it Tudor
And last shall be 1st
The first time ever that the last horse is the winner!
I doubt that this is true. Horse racing happens every day and night
He wasn't last
Brilliant
A Steve Bradbury done in horse racing 😂
Or an Andy Bradbury...
I would like to know what would of been the result if all horses didn’t jump, would they have voided the race or give the win to the first horse that crossed the line
I used to bet .my horses always come near the back so i stopped betting if the bookies start paying out if your horse finishes last or finishes near the back i will be quids in every race
This is a parable for all of us on here who feel isolated for our 'not following the herd' opinion on the cov-19 insanity. Like this jockey... our instinct, common sense and good judgement will prevail! Onwards!!!
Horse jumps fence=COVID safe. Brilliant logic!
The 'not following the herd' opinion certainly did prevail on the insanity. Though some are still following it, regardless.
There are people behind the hurdle that’s why most of the riders avoided it at the end they interviewed the jockey who decided to jump on it I’d rather listen to the riders explanations why they avoided it.
Could have been a nasty accident if they had jumped that hurdle, horses were going faster than the people running back to the rails!
@@catherinemiller3168 I should hope so.
Like the song..
GO your own way...
Lol brilliant. Haha
Pretty sure most bookies would have paid out on Just Henny as well. They usually do in these situations, even if the horse is subsequently disqualified or placed second they pay 'first past the post' - along with the eventual winner.
Most bookies now on Stewards enquiries pay out on both if it was a UK race, but this was a bit of a different scenario. Different bookies have different rules and in circumstances like this some could use it too their advantage. They could do it as a void race so even the official winner won't count and all you get is a refund. Some may pay out only on the official winner and some may pay out on both as if it was a dead heat so your winnings may be halved. When you walk in any betting shop in UK there is their rules written on its wall at its entrance and it legally gives them the right to pay out how they please because they have covered themselves in every scenario you could possibly think of when it comes to paying out on bets, especially in these circumstances due to how messy things could potentially get.
@@Catjuggler well to put it bluntly, I've been betting on horse racing for 15 years, I've turned over more than 10 million, and backed probably an average of around 30 horses a day for the past 15 years all with bookmakers and I've never seen them void a race. Exchanges maybe, but no bookmakers. They just pay out, it's good publicity for them.
There was a grand national that was void in the early 90s and that's arguably the biggest jump race in the in UK, if not the world. Also in past people have gone on the course while during a race and sabotaged it. Greyhound races are voided more frequently, every so often you get a dog running across the green instead of on the track. In the 60s at my local track which is now closed, someone once threw a cat on the track because the race that was meant to be fixed was gonna loose. I might not bet anywhere near that many horses a day or bet that much but I have been following the sport longer and same for betting in general.
Jack shouted at them to go around it..good tactics 😂
No he didn't
@@paddyhanlon3980 did you ride in the race ?
@@ianmulhall768 did you ride in the race?
@@paddyhanlon3980 Jack told me
@@ianmulhall768 😂😂😂😂
It looks like I could jog faster then he was going.
i was on the winner , im convinced he would of won anyway , quiet ride lol
I wonder how much he got hiked in the handicap for this bloodless victory 🤣
Anybody know how the exchanges went in running? Would of liked to seen that!
Mental both the leading horse and the only horse to complete both at short odds at the finish I backed the horse at the back that won at even money
@@paulpayne1059 I thought they would've suspended the market.
What happened the prize money for second and third?
When less horses finish than there is prize places to be paid , the prize gets split with the one's in the places that did finish, so as he the only 1 to finish he gets all the prize money 1st 2nd and 3rd
I was on it 😆😆 👌
Being that far last its a good job he didn't pull up.
He pulled up in his next race.
He , probably, thought, I've got nothing to lose anyway :)
@@Isleofskye or thought as im the only who has jumped it ...im the winner 🏆
Everyone who keeps commenting stuff like “just because everyone else does it, doesn’t mean you should”, if the markers were in position, then he would lost and wouldn’t look like a “hero”. The rider basically was out of position to go around, so he jumped having no choice. It wasn’t some brilliant move, it was a one-in-a-millon luck move.
Would have been brilliant if Dharma's jockey pulled it up because it was so far behind
In which case, the race would then have been declared null and void.
His instinct told him otherwise. Simple.
Is there anything in a race to say that of none of the horse completed the track (going over the right fences and so on) that the race would be voided???
🙄
SMARTEST jockey wins, on nearly the SLOWEST horse.
Some next level fix
Anyone else for horse jumping to be put to and end? It's really too hard on the horses, it has to stop.
I wonder if anyone offered big odds on the winner after the hurdle.
I think you mean "running at the back ,but still wins race" ;original sentence doesn't make sense.
Jockey: Go faster. Go faster. Go.
Horse: Chill dude, we´ll win by DQ.
I won all all of £21.83 on this race, go on jack lad lol
That's what I won too €5 on the nose... Lol all the up roar afterwards I knew I'd won... had to laugh at some clown emailed in saying it should if been a deadbeat with the winner and Tudors horse just cause he was on the first past the post... was laughing was it his first bet ever I doubt it
They should have just declared it "No Race" under the circumstances.
Don’t know what’s worse the race itself or the horses price 😂100/30🤣🙈
Considering it was 3rd best in the betting (Fav 9/4, 2nd Fav 3/1 and tailed off, the awarded finishing position gave a truer picture of where it should have been based on it's price.
Spot on
Burlington Bertie
@@Walshyb72 top of the shoulders 9/4 Carpet 3/1
Sadly Bluebell Sally was put down shortly after this race
Sally was feeling blue I take it?
he knew he was right
*Hehe nice horse ad*
Imagine the price in running...... Lol
was trading around 1.5 on betfair even though it was dead last
The bookies would have known , you're naive if you think differently
Fontwell has been the scene of a few farces. I remember Christian Williams took the wrong course on a P Nicholls hot fav. Hes a trainer 2 watch now btw Williams that is.
When in doubt jump the fence they can't disqualify for jumping an extra one
Its a hurdle not a fence
@@richardpetty6088 your second name tells me all I need to know
@@freemindthinkerezrapound5071 His 1st name tells me all I need to know......
You'd probably be disqualified either way for following an incorrect course, and add to that a ban if you jump a hurdle you're told not to and put an injured horse & the stewards at risk by doing so.
@@lilolme69 I understood this joke. Dick being short for Richard. 😂
I backed it on a Lucky15 but only gave me 2 winners think it was 17/2
Imagine he pulled up as felt was too far behind
Good chap: NOT a ‘herd animal’.
Listen to when this man says follow his gut !! It never lies 100%
why you bring me here youtube algorithm??????
Smart jockey.
watching it live, and bet the house
what odds the winner?
Ok I'll admit I don't watch this type of horse racing and certainly don't know the rules, but it seems crazy to me that jockey could ever not know where he is going on a track, it's his job. So the fact that it seems like almost every single one messed up by going around the hurdle is mind boggling. Hell I cnn't think of any race where they put a hurdle but give you the option to not do it.Why would anyone ever not avoid it if possible? would be way faster. But yeah this whole thing is very weird.
What was the outcome of the stweards
I don't know if TVG offers betting on Fontwell but after seeing this I know I won't.
Can tell me please who was the winner of this race ?
Wonder what it paid well done mate
Harry Reed class jockey 🏇 he only jumped it because he knew he had no chance of winning but fair game he blamed stewards, Harry Reed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The only bright guy.
Some stupid comments on here from ignorant people. The problem started when Bluebell Sally was pulled up owing to an injury. On the following lap owing to the horse still unable to leave the track it was decided wrongly to allow the jockeys to jump the hurdle but then to divert safely around the injured horse. As the chequered boards were after the hurdle and not in front of it that would normally mean you jump the hurdle. However the boards were initially held across the track instead of being placed a safe distance around the horse which was off camera. On approach to the hurdle the boards were suddenly removed after the jockeys had committed to bypass it as they obviously saw the loose horse still on the course.
The problem with most of these racecourse attendants on any course is that they are mostly Indian casual workers and suffer with the understanding of English. It was obviously a late decision that was misunderstood by the course attendants.
Was the injured horse ok in the end?
What odds was it?
Only jockey with common sense by seeing hurdle in path
One jockey used his brain. The rest went a mad gallop
That isn't true at all. You can see the people with the markers running out of the way. It was a very poorly done notification.
@@mikerein1649 Whats not true? All the horses were head down following the leader apart from the winner and the jockey with the red hat who followed the pack instead of jumping the hurdle like the winner did. The jockey in the red hat won the fake race but if he followed Jack Tudor he would have won the real race haha stupid c#$@
If the commentator knew you'd think the jockeys should. I was on Dharma rain and just hoping he wasn't pulled up in the end! To be honest though if they'd kept the result as first past the post I wouldn't have complained, horse was well beaten.
What happened to the stricken horse 🙈.??
I was wondering the same thing
Glue factory.
Same as any horse injured in racing. Dog meat and glue
Jockey at the back simply took a punt that all the others would be disqualified and it worked for him.
Shambles from Fontwell right enough - it was like a chuckle brothers gig.
I know that Arena are paying the "real" first 4 their rightful prize money but not sure if the bookies have refunded losing bets, or is that too much to ask?
What a complete and utter organisational shambles by an industry that survives on, amongst other things, the betting public and the perhaps mistaken belief that it is run by professionals! Did the 'arrow carriers' not see the wall of horses approaching?! It was only because Dharma Rain was so far back he had time to realign his approach when he saw the guys retreating (watch the bottom of the screen on the vid). Amateur hour indeed.
Hi steve
3/1 was the price on that winning horse ..
Fixed what a price to run a like that.
All bookmakers should have given the money back to all the punters ...
Well that was as clear as mud 🤣
What were the odds ?
If a horse is injured you use the screens not the arrows to go round an injured animal if it meant so much to protect the horse then stop the race
No farce... he knew what he was doing