It is said that trainers and jockeys between them have a large number of excuses as to why an individual horse did not win a race that day in order to convince the horse’s owner to retain the trainer and keep paying his high fees and the stabling costs.
It is also said that a horse has to win a large number of races in order to recoup these high costs.
If you click the link above the photograph you will see these reasons.
I have selected 50 of the best apparently according to Dr Desmond Morris from his book Horsewatching. In turn, he got the list from Sporting Life.
