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susie123 · 14-04-2012, 17:50

Forty runners, fifteen finishers, ten fallers, two died.

It's not always racing that leads to unhappy outcomes: I copied this from a comment in the Mirror just now.

It is impossible to treat a broken leg. if a human breaks a leg they can cast it and you don't weight bear on it...if a horse does it then it is impossible to not weight bear on the leg, therefore the break becomes displaced through the weight of the horse. I lost my horse of a lifetime (not a racehorse) when she broke a leg in the field (just slipped over). She was 7 months in foal at the time and I would have done ANYTHING to save her and the foal, but it was impossible to treat and, sadly, I had to have her PTS...obviously the unborn foal died too.

14-04-2012, 17:50	#15
susie123 Resting In Peace Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Morecambe Posts: 4,208 Liked: 416 times Rep Power: 36414	Re: Grand National, is it wrong? Forty runners, fifteen finishers, ten fallers, two died. It's not always racing that leads to unhappy outcomes: I copied this from a comment in the Mirror just now. It is impossible to treat a broken leg. if a human breaks a leg they can cast it and you don't weight bear on it...if a horse does it then it is impossible to not weight bear on the leg, therefore the break becomes displaced through the weight of the horse. I lost my horse of a lifetime (not a racehorse) when she broke a leg in the field (just slipped over). She was 7 months in foal at the time and I would have done ANYTHING to save her and the foal, but it was impossible to treat and, sadly, I had to have her PTS...obviously the unborn foal died too. __________________ Let sleeping polar bears lie...