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RIP KAUTO STAR

nth_london_addick
nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
in Other Football and Sports
A real legendary horse aged just 16

Seems like we have a RIP for mortals here's a legend

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,059
    edited June 2015
    Can I be the first to say thanks Colin. He was 15. Pedantry at it's finest.

    http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/63102/sport-of-kings-discussion-thread#latest
  • C4FC4L1f3
    C4FC4L1f3 Posts: 1,917
    day before my birthday - made me sad! favorite horse at the moment. RIP and thanks for all the cash you made me!
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,347
    Sad to hear that, saw the dominating 36 length win in the flesh, was in complete awe at the majestical way Kauto traveled that day, made the other horses look like Blackpool donkeys
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,391
    Underrated bass player.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    A horse that really was a star. Won me a few quid. Had the pleasure of seeing him in the horse flesh on a few occasions. Sad to hear he's gone.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Deserved his own thread if a geezer who played the Tin whistle to 5blokes in.the tramshed once gets his own
  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,664
    Thought this was the guy in the pink panther movies.
  • MartTheTaxi
    MartTheTaxi Posts: 173
    expensive doner kebab that'll be
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,054
    MartTheTaxi said:

    expensive doner kebab that'll be

    ...or a cheap lasagne
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,498
    Rip kauto

    Why they sent you to dressage we'll never know.

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  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    Does this mean he's not going to buy Charlton?
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,205
    nth london addick said:

    A real legendary horse.

    Sorry, now I'm confused was he real or was he legendary?
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    I don't think he died a natural death. Despite his legendary status he was "put down" by humans rather than nursed back to health. A factor that suggests his value had disappeared in someone's eyes. Sad but that's the horsey world for you.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,266
    Yeah he was put to sleep

    Apparently Paul Nicholls is fuming but the owner kept sending him out to events and he never got a chance to shag his days away as a stud
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,872
    Carter said:

    Yeah he was put to sleep

    Apparently Paul Nicholls is fuming but the owner kept sending him out to events and he never got a chance to shag his days away as a stud

    Not sure he'd have been much use at stud!
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,266
    Was he gelded too? Poor sod
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,888
    Carter said:

    Was he gelded too? Poor sod

    You try jumping fences with your bits dangling free!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,888
    Former trainer, Paul Nicholls. fell out with the owner Clive Smith back in April 2011 when he wanted to retire KS following a lack lustre display at Punchestown. Smith wanted none of it and apparently the two even had an altercation in front of hundreds of guests at Nicholls' annual owners' day.

    A few months later this re-surfaced when Nicholls, like most people, wanted KS to retire gracefully to the paddock. Smith, for whatever motivation, wanted to elongate the old boy's career by making him learn and compete, at the age of almost 12, in dressage events.

    Clifford Baker, head lad to Paul Nicholls, said of the horse's new career:

    "It was sad to see him leave and it took me a long time to get over it. I knew him inside out and back to front and we all knew he wasn't going to be a dressage horse. He was a handful at times, and he was never going to settle down and trot around a dressage ring, so it was a great source of regret.

    We would have loved to have given him the retirement he deserved and it was sad too for the boys and girls who looked after him - Sonja, Nick and Rose - who were all brilliant with him in the eight years we had him"

    Finally this week, not only Nicholls but those very staff that had cared for him during his career were not told about the accident until KS had been put down i.e. a week after his fall.

    It would be easy to view Smith as a hard nosed businessman who made his millions building a commodity and selling it - in his case golf courses. KS was another commodity who won approximately £2.4m in prizemoney but who, all of a sudden, was worthless and a cost to him.

    Perhaps though we see Smith's true colours through just one quote about Nicholls:

    "To be honest, I was disappointed from early on that Paul didn't pronounce Kauto's name correctly," he said. "There was no excuse but he didn't back off."

    To Smith the correct pronounciation of "Kauto" ate away at him far more, it seems, than the horse's welfare.


  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Sad way for it to end for the Star.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,266
    Addick Addict said:

    Carter said:

    Was he gelded too? Poor sod

    You try jumping fences with your bits dangling free!
    Shows how little I know, I thought it was only problematic horses that met that fate.

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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,348
    Covered End said:

    Can I be the first to say thanks Colin. He was 15. Pedantry at it's finest.

    http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/63102/sport-of-kings-discussion-thread#latest

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