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Unfortunately fell at the last ditch (3 out) at Worcester in the 2.50 today. Looked very bad and as usual no mention on ATR. Very sad for the horse and also because like Southwell the Worcester course can’t stage any meetings with fatalities. The same old story, poor horses competing over fences and maybe even asked a bit too much in the closing stages.
RIP South WingIt was a shame because it didn’t look that bad a fall, but you could see when he got up that he wasn’t putting any weight on the leg.
RIP.
@ Black Gold: It really didn’t look that badly broken? Isn’t there anything they could do and try to fix it? I mean one day you could start trying to fix those "easy" breaks. Medicine has achieved so much in recent years, why not giving it a try. You can put the horse down any time, but while trying to fix it you could gain more information about why it doesn’t work and how it could work. Nothing worse could happen to the horse than being put down.
RIP South Wing
a tragic end, so sorry.@ RubyLight..
I found an interesting article today which seems to ask all these questions and give answers too, not all that we might wish to hear but the article seems to go the extra mile to explain why most horses with broken legs sadly cannot be saved.http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/20 … -leg-horse
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...RIP South Wing
a tragic end, so sorry.@ RubyLight..
I found an interesting article today which seems to ask all these questions and give answers too, not all that we might wish to hear but the article seems to go the extra mile to explain why most horses with broken legs sadly cannot be saved.Interesting that the BHA graph apparently shows a slight downward trend on fatal injuries, whereas most of us on here were sure the opposite was the case, and have discussed the reasons at length.
What many of us thought was mentioned in the article, which was that racehorses are lighter-boned nowadays.
Anyway, none of that helps poor South Wing. I thought he was ok til he took a step, poor lad. RIP
@ Black Gold: It really didn’t look that badly broken? Isn’t there anything they could do and try to fix it? I mean one day you could start trying to fix those "easy" breaks. Medicine has achieved so much in recent years, why not giving it a try. You can put the horse down any time, but while trying to fix it you could gain more information about why it doesn’t work and how it could work. Nothing worse could happen to the horse than being put down.
No, I didn’t say is wasn’t badly broken, I said it didn’t look like a bad fall. Some falls you see look bad/horrible and you know instantly that it’s all over for the horse, but Southwing just seemed to get a bit low at the fence and crumple on landing so not a bad looking fall. It didn’t look to be a fall which would turn out to be fatal. They’re almost the worst sort really because you can’t believe that something terrible has happened.
As the blog says, horses’ legs are very difficult to treat successfully, but they are learning new techniques all the time. Animals can’t understand in the way that humans do that they must stay still or not put weight on a limb or lay down as much as possible. It will never be possible to save every horse injured, but hopefully more and more will be in future.
a tragic end, so sorry.
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