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Gordon Booth · 15-04-2012, 19:23

I just wonder- if there weren't so many horses starting off, forty, they wouldn't get in each others way so much. In that crowd some of them won't even see the fences before they come to them. How can they jump properly if they can't see the fence? Also they and the jockeys have no room to manoeuvre or react if one in front of them has a problem.
After all the new fences aren't that high and if horses died every time there was a foxhunt we'd surely hear about it. But on a foxhunt they'll be spread out.

15-04-2012, 19:23	#41
Gordon Booth Senior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 2,402 Liked: 715 times Rep Power: 46613	Re: Grand National, is it wrong? I just wonder- if there weren't so many horses starting off, forty, they wouldn't get in each others way so much. In that crowd some of them won't even see the fences before they come to them. How can they jump properly if they can't see the fence? Also they and the jockeys have no room to manoeuvre or react if one in front of them has a problem. After all the new fences aren't that high and if horses died every time there was a foxhunt we'd surely hear about it. But on a foxhunt they'll be spread out.