"Luck" cancelled

[redtwin]

Due to death of horses. From the episodes I have seen and enjoyed they barely seem to be pushing the horses during the racing scenes, certainly less so than in actual racing. Why would 3 horses have died on set then?.

It would have still been an interesting show even if all the racing scenes were cut. It was more about the characters behind the scene rather than actual racing which I have no interest in.

Oh well, I will continue to enjoy what episodes are left.

[hornetrider]

There is a luck thread.

[redtwin]

I thought there was, but search is down and I went back 21 pages looking for it before thinking I must have imagined it.

[Panda76]

Apparently the 3 horses were retired racehorses and had underlying injuries which were made worse.So says some American animal welfare society,they say they had been approached by show insiders who notified them of the horse deaths.

[hornetrider]

redtwin said:

I thought there was, but search is down and I went back 21 pages looking for it before thinking I must have imagined it.

[SpeedBash]

hornetrider said:

There is a luck thread.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=1111585&mid=139670

[MissChief]

Panda76 said:

Apparently the 3 horses were retired racehorses and had underlying injuries which were made worse.So says some American animal welfare society,they say they had been approached by show insiders who notified them of the horse deaths.

The American Humane society was on set for all filming.

not sure about the two previous horse deaths but the last one was when a horse being led back to the stables by a stable hand reared up, tipped over backwards and fractured it's skull on the ground and had to be put down. This kind of accident happens in stables more often then you would think and isn't that unusual and certainly wasn't actually related to the filming. It was decided then to stop filming and cancel the series.

[Panda76]

Im relaying back what was said in a short interview on the radio last night.R5 live.

[redtwin]

So as far as we know, nothing really related to animal neglect. I am getting the impression ratings weren't so great and with the bad publicity they saw a quick and easy exit.

As I mentioned, the show could have continued without the actual racing scenes, but if horses are keeling over dead just from walking around then no way of preparing for that.

[redtwin]

SpeedBash said:

hornetrider said:

There is a luck thread.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=1111585&mid=139670

Thanks, I must have missed it when scrolling back through the threads.