THIS is the moment a randy racehorse embarrassed his trainer by jumping out with a ‘fifth leg’.
An unraced colt in Australia unwittingly booked his own gelding operation after bursting out of the barriers with an unexpected surprise.
Turns out two-year-old Pannier had got all riled up after spotting a filly in a stall next to his at a racecourse gallop in Victoria.
Trainer Henry Dwyer’s assistant Simon Morrish witnessed the incident first-hand.
Morrish rang Dwyer up and faced the hard task of putting into words something he said he had never seen in 40 years around horses.
Dwyer told the horse’s owners: “This gallop was really just about finishing off his preparation with a jump-out, experience of travelling away, being in the barriers with other horses.
“I wasn’t able to be there, but my assistant trainer Simon rang me after his trial.
“He said he’s seen a first in his 40 years of training – he’s never seen a horse trial with an erection.
“They reckon he was very ‘colty’ prior to the jump out.
“If you look at the footage, the first 400m of the trial, he couldn’t gallop properly because he’s got a fifth leg hanging down in the middle which, as you can imagine, would be quite uncomfortable trying to stretch out with.
“Jockey Mitch Aiken said in the gates he had a filly on one side of him.
“He got very, very worked up and very horny.
“Normally you’d think when the gates open a horse might put it away and focus on the job at hand.
“But he kept it out and was trying to gallop.
“You could see his action was very awkward because he couldn’t stretch out like that.
“It was only probably the last bit of the trial he got his mind on the job and galloped properly.
“That’s enough indication for me that he probably needs to be gelded.
“He’ll be gelded next week and we’ll give him six weeks out and look to bring him back next time and do it all again.”
Gelding operations are entirely normal for racehorses and the surgery can help calm them down and race better.
One punter saw the funny side to the whole thing and wrote in reply to a comment about the horse: “Five-legged horses should run faster.”
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