"No one is responsible for this...it's just the weather." Dan Skelton declared Deafening Silence a non-runner in the £40k Novices' Chase at Exeter, which resulted in Captain Teague completing a walkover, & shared some very interesting views on the event afterwards 👇Anthony Dunkley

@AJD1Racing Here's a question, what if people or the racegoers just didn't turn up to the meetings because they didn't like the weather? Racing would cease to exist. If trainers keep pulling horses out of races, on perfectly safe and good ground racing will get even more in the crap

@AJD1Racing Nonsense like others have said on here give a month or so ground will be described as desperate. And they'll be pulling them out left right and centre. They say its a long old season but they run majority 4 times max a season. National Hunt is on it knees be gone in ten years

Why declare them on the same ground you’re facing today then? Presume you have the capability to access and read a weather forecast?

@AJD1Racing Shifty Dan talking out of both sides of his mouth as usual. He'd be a natural in Starmers cabinet come to think of it.

@AJD1Racing “You can’t beat nature” as they stand at a course that has had drainage work. Let’s not pretend that this is just the weather. We’ve had a remarkably wet summer.

@AJD1Racing Its absolutely right that horse welfare trumps everything 👏👏

@AJD1Racing Bring Kinkeel out of retirement, he wouldn’t have shied away

@AJD1Racing Can we please just hurry up and get NH racing banned because listening to Fat bastards like DS gets right on everyone's wick Talking about animal welfare all the time whilst being flung at 14 fences is the biggest load of contradictory shite

@AJD1Racing What a lot of absolute bullshit. I'll bet you anything it'll be soft in February and Henderson will be whingeing that all of his horses (0 runs all season) need to wait for "nice spring ground"

@AJD1Racing Racing folk live, breathe & sleep these beautiful equines, day in day out! Is 40k really worth risking potential injuries just to appease bettors/ racegoers? Absolutely not! Ok to have opinions, be disappointed, but also to admit you know less than you think you do, gracefully.