Horse racing oddity: jockey misjudges distance

For some reason I find oddities like this May 16, 2004 race very entertaining. The Hasta la Vista Handicap at Turf Paradise in Arizona is run at what today is an unusually long distance of 1 7/8 miles. This requires two full circuits of the course, rather than the usual one time around in most races. Unfortunately for jockey Jorge Carreno, he forgets that minor detail, creating a very unusual sitation. On a personal note, in the early 1980s, I recall Hall of Fame jockey Jorge Velasquez falling victim to the same mental lapse in the 2 1/4 mile Display Handicap at Aqueduct. My father and I got a big kick out of the fans watching the replay cheering "come on Georgie" the first time around, as he was furiously whipping and driving despite having a mile left to run.

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Sports

Tags:

• thoroughbred
• horse
• racing
• oddity
• jockey
• misjudged
• distance

[razrbladefaerie]

looks like a really fast horse, unfortunately the jockey didnt know what he was doing :/ lol

[Major0501]

the horse is awesome, too bad that this jokey didn't know where the finish line was:D

[mollypeachharley]

It's all about the money the slaughter house pays for these retired show horses so the owner figures well this horse isn't makin me any money anymore and I can sell it to slaughter woohoo more money for me we need to make slaughter illegal it happens everywhere and everyday every state every city so cmon help!!!!

[mollypeachharley]

Sure If I was a horse racing wouldn't be my first choice even If some are treated with royalty but some people don't understand most of the retired racehorses and show horses get sent to the slaughter house so the owners can make a few final bucks of em it's sad that for some it's all about the money not how hard the horse worked for you and how much money he made for you and you can't even give them a good ending?!?! How sad!!! These people have mo respect for these animals it's all about the

[futurejockey8]

@DrDance2323 THANK YOU. Spread the word, brother. We must stop the idiotic stereotypes of racing.

[DrDance2323]

Some people have no idea about horse racing.

The "it's cruel" brigade have no understanding of whips, and the way horses are treated.

Horses die at pony club, horses die at the Olympics, horses die eventing, horses die at gymkana's.

Horses die.

A horse feels a whip like you feel a fly on you. The whip has a flat leather end designed to make a cracking sound.

A horse is a flight animal, it hears the crack and feels it brushing against his hide.

He runs faster, because of flight response.

End of.

[xXeMokiDXxMCRXx]

Woops silly Jockey xD

Whips don't hurt as much as you'd think, a friend who had a proper racing whip whipped the hell outta me one day with it, right across my backside and I got ready for the worst remembering being hit with normal crops, didn't hurt at all, sure it will hurt if used enough like anything would, but that is why they have rules for the amount of times you can use them (yes I know people still do it anyway) racehorses are mostly treated like kings, but some aren't, minority cases

[BlindMagSoprano]

@boz987 And really, those whips are designed just to make noise if used correctly. They don't hurt the horse.

[afleetalgebra]

@Dmode1001 it is illeagal to do that you know

[afleetalgebra]

Andrea90106 go to a barn with race horses and look at them then tell us what you saw and tell us the answers to the questions you asked

[afleetalgebra]

horse: OMG WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS JOCKEY

jockey: oh i though that was the finish line

me: hilarious poor horse wanted to finish at the right time darn it! LOL

[carlykaiser]

That poor jockey probably thought he had the next Secretariat.