Twist tragedy as Tartak wins

Tragic loss in Newbury feature

Last updated: 15th December 2010  

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There was a sad conclusion to the totesport.com Peterborough Chase won by Tartak as Paul Nicholls' multiple Grade One winner Twist Magic lost his life in the Newbury Grade Two.

Twist Magic was still in front when he fell at the second last, and although he managed to gallop past the line, he had sustained irreparable damage.

Nicholls' Breedsbreeze made a bold bid for home but he could not stop the finish of Tartak (11-4), who won by half a length.

Nicholls said: "He has fractured a pastern and we've lost him. He's been a great horse and it's always sad when it happens. "

Tartak's trainer Tom George said: "We've had a bit of luck today but he deserves to win a big one.

"We might well go for the Ryanair Chase, and the three-miler at Aintree will be his main target."

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W H says...

ED S - typical white van man / sun reader attitude assuming its all about money and no one gives a stuff about the horse. anyone who knows about horses will tell you that any kind of injury like that is extremely complicated and unlikely to repair. you cant put a cast on the horse and expect it to keep its hoofs up for a couple of months... IF (and that is a big if) the vets are actually able to piece back the shattered bone, operate and repair, you have a much bigger worry of laminitis. As they are finely balanced animals if they put too much weight on their other legs for a long period of time. its a cert that the horrifically debilitating laminitis will develop in their other legs and claim their life instead of the original injury. Barbaro was a typical example of this. A trainer of Paul Nicholls standard will have done anything possible to save any horse in his care. This was not a money decision, this was a decision made about the welfare of the horse.

Posted 23:58 15th December 2010

Ben Hodges says...

Ed S obviously hasn't a clue about horse's or racing when a horse sustains an injury to its pastern like that its the only humane thing you can do Paul Nicholls isn't the type of guy to go around ending a horse because it wont run again and especially not a horse like Twist Magic , meanwhile back on planet earth I send my condolences to the owners and the stable staff who look after him every day its heart braking and my thoughts are with you all. awful loss of a beautiful creature

Posted 17:38 15th December 2010

Ed S says...

This is what I hate about horse racing. "Twist Magic was still in front when he fell at the second last, and although he managed to gallop past the line, he had sustained irreparable damage." No he didn't, he became economically unviable, a HUGE difference....

Posted 16:03 15th December 2010

Darrin Clark says...

A very sad loss for racing and my heartfelt smpathies go to Paul Nicholls (a gentleman and horseman through and through) and the connections of Twist Magic. Jump racing brings a great deal of pleasure and thrills and spills galore, but this is the downside.

Posted 15:56 15th December 2010
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