The sensible cash’s on Sierra Nevada for the 4:50 at Eire’s Gowran Park on Sunday. However which one?
Racing at Eire’s Gowran Park, pictured. Simply make sure you don’t have your cash on the “mistaken” Sierra Nevada. (Picture: Horse Racing)
Because of a bizarre blip within the Matrix, two horses with precisely the identical identify will run in opposition to one another in the identical race, the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden, The Racing Submit studies.
The complicated scenario has arisen as a result of the horses, a three-year-old filly educated by Jessica Harrington named Sierra Nevada, and its namesake, a four-year-old filly educated by Charles O’Brien, had been registered in numerous nations.
The three-year-old is an American horse and the four-year is British.
The Submit notes that Britain and Eire have a joint stud e book, in order that horses registered in these nations can’t have the identical identify. However this understanding doesn’t cross the pond.
In the meantime, there may be nothing in Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board guidelines to ban two horses of the identical identify racing collectively.
USA Vs. GB
No changes will likely be made to distinguish between the 2 in race playing cards, officers have mentioned, besides that they are going to be known as Sierra Nevada (US) and Sierra Nevada (GB), respectively.
Nicola McGeady of Ladbrokes mentioned bookmakers are hoping to keep away from confusion on Sunday.
It’s actually an uncommon one,” she instructed the Submit. “Store workers will likely be made conscious of this, so prospects can specify which one they need a wager on, plus we’ll embody a message on the race screens and audio round race time, making certain there is no such thing as a confusion.”
Of the 2, bookmakers really feel the American horse will fare higher on Sunday. On the time of writing, Sierra Nevada (US) is without doubt one of the essential contenders, 11/1, or fourth favourite on the time of publication. It’s owned and bred by the Miarchos household’s Flaxman Holdings.
Sierra Nevada (GB), owned by Sue Magnier, is a 33/1 longshot on the time of publication.
Kerkiyra is the favourite to win the race, at odds of 15/8.
Weirdly, final July, Sierra Nevada (US) coach Hartington had a winner disqualified on the Galway Pageant as a result of it “couldn’t be positively recognized post-race.”
Hartington admitted she had unintentionally run a special horse than the one which was marketed on the race card. Whereas the horses had completely different names, Hartington defined, “They give the impression of being precisely the identical.”
Averti-ng Confusion
The namesake scenario shouldn’t be with out precedent. In 1994, two horses named Averti, one bred within the US, the opposite in Eire, competed in a race in Nice Yarmouth, England.
Going again additional, in 1896 at England’s now-defunct Keele Park Racecourse, two horses named Lambton lined up for a steeplechase race. Chances are high, at the least one was named after the then-famous British champion racehorse coach George Lambton.
To maximise confusion, the horses had been each British, and so couldn’t be differentiated by nationwide suffixes. And to ship confusion into overdrive, they positioned first and second within the race.
Oddly, the February meet at Keele Park two years later was dominated by a jockey named Mr. W. Lambton, though he was not driving any of the aforementioned Lambtons.
