Talent wins the 131st running of the Velka Pardubicka with Slavia Insurance - press release
Submitted by Robin on 14. October 2021 - 17:53Talent wins the 131st running of the Velka Pardubicka with Slavia Insurance
Talent wins the 131st running of the Velka Pardubicka with Slavia Insurance
Slovak-trained Vandual, which finished 3rd in last year's Velka Pardubicka, will not run on Sunday due to lameness.
Panagiotis Dimitsanis, the undisputed top jockey in Greece for more than twent
The European Jockeys’ Cup meeting will be held at Prague Velká Chuchle racecourse (Chuchle Arena Prague) on Saturday, September 25th. The first race is at 2 p.m.
The last of the four qualification races for the 131st running of the Velka Pardubicka was run at Pardubice racecourse on Saturday, September 4th. This year’s September meeting at Pardubice was held 36 days before the big race (Sunday, October 10th).
Over the last 13 years, the number of riders has dropped by almost 40%, and the number of new rider’s licences issued has dropped from 41 to just 14
In response to Sottovento’s fatal fall at the Taxis in the 2020 running of the Velka Pardubicka, a group was set up to propose ways to reduce the danger of this obstacle for horses and riders. The Taxis was last redesigned in the early 1990s, when the depth of the ditch on the far side of the fence was reduced.
The 101st Czech Derby was won comfortably enough by the favourite, Hazarder, owned by Jiří Charvát and trained by Pavel Tůma, with Václav Janáček in the saddle.