Rich Strike's Outrider

[Left Bank]

There is ALWAYS some Moron who comes out of nowhere to give the public a bad image about racing, never fails.

[ontheoutside]

how can u say he didnt hit him? jezh

[casp0555]

I'm not condoning or vice versa but Rich Strike took a chunk out of the outrider's horse's neck (photos on Twitter) and I saw Rich Strike trying to bite that horse several times and got close to the outrider's hand a few times.
I have been bitten on the shoulder blade by a gelding when I was much younger and know that they can take a finger off or cause great damage...and no, he could not let that horse loose or that itself could have been disastrous.
Like DaHoss stated, optics did not look good but what else could he do until he got a longer lead hooked on?

[casp0555]

Originally Posted by casp0555

I'm not condoning or vice versa but Rich Strike took a chunk out of the outrider's horse's neck (photos on Twitter) and I saw Rich Strike trying to bite that horse several times and got close to the outrider's hand a few times.
I have been bitten on the shoulder blade by a gelding when I was much younger and know that they can take a finger off or cause great damage...and no, he could not let that horse loose or that itself could have been disastrous.
Like DaHoss stated, optics did not look good but what else could he do until he got a longer lead hooked on?

https://twitter.com/francesjkaron/st...692416/photo/1

Take a look at the rein almost bitten in two

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by casp0555

I'm not condoning or vice versa but Rich Strike took a chunk out of the outrider's horse's neck (photos on Twitter) and I saw Rich Strike trying to bite that horse several times and got close to the outrider's hand a few times.
I have been bitten on the shoulder blade by a gelding when I was much younger and know that they can take a finger off or cause great damage...and no, he could not let that horse loose or that itself could have been disastrous.
Like DaHoss stated, optics did not look good but what else could he do until he got a longer lead hooked on?

Yeah I think it looked way worse than it really was. I was trying my best to explain it to people who watch horse racing once a year to no avail after the race to no avail.

Racetrackers deal with rank studdish horses every day. The horse doesn't know it's misbehaving. The horsemen who deal with that and understand they are passionate animals are the one's that shine. Who get and accept the dangers.

Mostly it's behind the scenes.

To do what that outrider did. With the world watching is inexcusable.

That's the very time you have to use your head and not lose it.

It's called horsemanship.

He did his job very poorly.

No justification.

[knickslions2]

Social media can blow the smallest things into full blow tragedies. This really is overblow. Anyone around horses knows that.

[ontheoutside]

go to facebook and search katie catlady jackson,,she posted a picture of rich strike whole mouth around outfigers leg,no wonder he hiy t him

[moses]

Originally Posted by knickslions2

Social media can blow the smallest things into full blow tragedies. This really is overblow. Anyone around horses knows that.

To be fair, I watched the race with 50+ people and not one of them even commented on this. I don’t think that many people are talking about it.

[moses]

Originally Posted by v j stauffer

He did his job very poorly.

Of all people, I didn’t think you’d be leading the mob to crucify a guy for not doing his job well.

Originally Posted by moses

Of all people, I didn’t think you’d be leading the mob to crucify a guy for not doing his job well.

Sounds good.