When you get two races for one! Chaos at Fontainebleau, as the jockeys split and take different courses over different fences.
The near side group were riding on the correct course, with the pair on the far side taking the incorrect route.
That certainly cracked commentator Ian Bartlett up! 🤣
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37 Comments
French racing is a joke
bit disappointed the RP couldn't have shown it from earlier to see exactly how and when the division occurred.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cheltenham probably thinking of how they can squeeze even more races into the festival? 🤔🤔
I could listen to the great Ian Bartlett commentate on 2 flies going up a wall — but this is magic!!!!
Ian Bartlett. Commentating genius
It's not the jockeys fault for taking the wrong course. Why aren't there any markers or rails to doll off along the course???😮
The chase course at Fontainebleau has identical fences right? Therefore one should follow the direction so that they know that there's a line of fences to negotiate from a Double Barrier to the Oxer then an Open Ditch followed by the Bullfinch.
Thank God we don't have those type of obstacles on a British or Irish jumps track.
Which one is the course
So who bloody won!?
There was a country French (known as a PMH) race 4-5 years ago where half the field decided going the wrong way was the right idea. Glad in trot this doesn't happen. TREATING IS NOT THE SAME AS DOPING, FREE BRIAND NOW!
You have to laugh with him. "Hold all your tickets"….😂
Surely the two on the far side must have realised they had cocked up, they should have pulled up to avoid any unnecessary injury to themselves or their horses.
Macron get your own racing in order before you mess with the world.
SO WHAT DID THE STEWARDS DECIDE??!? I wanna know how this came out! I'm guessing the adventurous two were disqualified…
I really despise this type of racing. Flat racing is bad enough on horses. 🤦🏻♀️😒
Extra points for going over HIGHER obstacles!
Not so funny if you have a horse, leading comfortably, and then goes the wrong course. Last year, maybe Pau France, chase/hurdle. He was a WINNER, 😢
It's no wonder you have jockeys riding on different tracks. Look at the condition of the rails missing. Sad and dangerous. 😢😢😢
for those exclaiming that it's 2 races for one, that actually has been done (on purpose, an official pari-mutuel race)…at Canterbury Park in Minnesota, they've had "Extreme Race Days," where they run all kinds of races you don't normally see, to include simultaneous races held on the turf & dirt tracks, run as one race…one has been posted here, do a search for "Canterbury Park Extreme Day Battle of the Surfaces 7-16-16"
I’m surprised this sport still exists tbh
Commentator is still laughing 4 weeks later. 😂
Poor horses. When will this sport end. It’s 17th century animal cruelty.
I love horse racing!!
Lol…if I'm going to lose some green might as well spread it out over 9 races😬😬😬
Who won then?
https://youtu.be/lX37FbFjqrI
Talk about trying to FIX a race,without fixing a race.
Only on france
🤣🤣🤣 This is really funny. I wonder what became of the results?
Ahaha. You can tell it was the group of 4 off course by the confused guy who saw them coming and had to skeedaddle out of their way. hahaha
Should issue tomtom navigators to all jockeys, UK race courses are so dam confusing.
Can you imagine them in a hunter/jumper ring??!!
Ikr abusing animals is so funny! I can’t believe how funny that is!
the four of u go that way and us two will go this way n we will screw with the announcer n then wee will meet u
Well what happened?????
The race caller should have known the right track. I mean even the patrons know a steeple is higher than the Hurdle, and he had the race name right in front of him.
who won?
Bartlett the worst commentator ever, makes it sound like every horse in the race has a chance at the furlong pole. Useless man can't spot a winner from 10 yards out!
IMO