Martin Liška is injured and will miss the ride on Argano in the Velka

Submitted by Robin on 12. October 2024 - 12:40

Martin Liška, trainer and planned jockey of Argano in the Velka Pardubicka, was injured in an unfortunate accident on Thursday. A deer ran across in front of Serena Chope, one of his other horses, which he was preparing to run in the Gold Brooch Stakes for 3-y-o hurdlers at Pardubice this Saturday. Martin ended up underneath the spooked horse, and was taken to hospital with a bruised kidney. The filly also had to be withdrawn from her race.

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The Velká Pardubická - the known unknowns, and how to be lucky

Submitted by Robin on 12. October 2024 - 11:41

Normal experts, in all fields of expertise, tend to ignore the unknown unkowns and play down the known unknowns, giving the impression that they can predict pretty well what is going to happen. After the event, they normally claim to have been right, or that they would have been right, were it not for unknown unknowns – Acts of God that they could not have been expected to predict.

 

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Josef Bartoš: Adventurers and Contenders

Submitted by Robin on 8. October 2024 - 21:00

This interview with No 1 Czech jumps jockey Josef Bartoš, taken by Dostihový svět editor Petr Guth, first appeared on our Czech language pages.

Three foreign horses that are unknown to us will run in the Velka Pardubicka. This information will be a breath of fresh air for some, but for others it will raise misgivings. Not just because there might be a winner from abroad, after a period of many years. Even Josef Bartoš, the jockey in the race with the most experience of riding abroad, is not thrilled by the foreign competition.

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News and Views on next Sunday's Velka Pardubicka

Submitted by Robin on 7. October 2024 - 14:37

When at the end of May all 15 runners in the first of the four qualification races at Pardubice completed the course and met the qualification requirements for the 134th running of the Velka Pardubicka, most of  them very competently, it seemed there might be a vast number of entries at the end of September and probably a particularly large and high-quality field.

 

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An Irish-trained entry for the 2024 Velka Pardubicka has run three times in the Aintree Grand National

Submitted by Robin on 24. September 2024 - 23:21

An Irish-trained three times runner in the Aintree Grand National is entered for the Velka Pardubicka

(This article, written by our Dostihový svět editor-in-chief Petr Guth, first appeared in Czech language on September 24th, 2024)

 

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