With the Sales postponed and racing cancelled time is running out for this year’s bumper crop of race-ready juvenilesThis should have been the week when Newmarket, and the new Flat season, burst into life, with the Craven meeting on the Rowley Mile, Classic trials and more than 100 two-year-olds breezing on the track in the morning and then going under the hammer at the famous Tattersalls’ sales ring a few hours later. Normally, some would be making their racecourse debuts for their new owners in a matter of weeks.Amid the paralysis and uncertainty of the coronavirus lockdown, though, there will be no Breeze-Up sales in their natural slot at the outset of a fresh campaign, and perhaps 1,000 two-year-olds that have been carefully prepared for a move to a racing stable could end up as a lost generation. For anyone who has already invested significant amounts of expertise, capital and time steering these horses to the brink of a racecourse career, it is a potentially disastrous possibility. Continue reading…
Via: Talking Horses: 'Lost generation' of thousand horses in lockdown limbo
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