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Ron
08-24-2008, 03:31 PM
A horse jumped over the paddock fence. Is everyone ok?
jognlope
08-24-2008, 05:34 PM
He was caught and led back, seemed okay.
cj
08-24-2008, 05:37 PM
Maybe he was prepping for a steeplechase.
RichieP
08-24-2008, 05:46 PM
maybe he was hallucinating,thought he was a cow and the fence was the moon???

:3x:
Ron
08-24-2008, 05:53 PM
It was the 6, Cheering, in the 6th. I think she would have been last but was a scratch. Jan started screaming "Everyone look out!" so it was a little bit alarming.
classhandicapper
08-24-2008, 06:07 PM
It was the 6, Cheering, in the 6th. I think she would have been last but was a scratch. Jan started screaming "Everyone look out!" so it was a little bit alarming.

The OTB channel in NY immediately cut off the visual and audio of the area after that. I wanted to see what was going on. They came back to it as soon everything was OK.
Ron
08-24-2008, 08:10 PM
The OTB channel in NY immediately cut off the visual and audio of the area after that. I wanted to see what was going on. They came back to it as soon everything was OK.

Thats when I posted. There was screaming and then the OTB channel cut away. Its kind of scary as the area around the paddock is crowded with families.
jognlope
08-24-2008, 09:02 PM
Cheering reared Johnny twice in paddock, the second time flipped over and hit herself on the fence on the way down (it was another horse I was thinking about that bolted and caught) But Cheering was moved into a back stall and seemed to be walking okay, then scratched. Dont' know though, after Endogenous poor thing died after flipped over a few years ago, but she hit her head on cement.
jognlope
08-24-2008, 09:04 PM
She broke the fence and ran through it according to Timesunion entry:

http://blogs.timesunion.com/horseracing/
jognlope
08-24-2008, 09:06 PM
Didn't run through it, just around paddock. Well she's only a youngun..
Milleruszk
08-24-2008, 09:20 PM
The horse was probably spooked by the giant NetsJets tent that blocks out the skyline in the paddock. Has that tent been up the entire meet? NYRA has turned the once beautiful paddock into a what now resembles a trailer park. I couldn't believe they put that ugly tent in the middle of the paddock. :eek:
jognlope
08-25-2008, 05:28 AM
Probably. In my experience nitwits will put things out that continually spook horses.
LottaKash
08-25-2008, 05:30 AM
Perhaps he was trying to find a shortcut to Dutrow's barn, for the Good Stuff............:rolleyes: