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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:56:41 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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I will shooot some pics of the new horse today.
Very nice and quiet. I rode her last night and twice this morning already.
You would think I would use the extra hour last night for sleep. But I simply woke up an hour earlier this morning.
So I took her out in the arena and rode her some more. Then my daughter woke up and rode her a bit before I grabbed another horse and we went out down the trail.
Me too. I just got up.
Veterinarian killed by horse
By LEILA FADEL
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
A veterinarian in North Richland Hills was killed Friday in an accident while at a riding competition in Benton, La.
Glynis Roth, 50, had left her horse's stall open while she put out water the night before a two-day riding event.
When the horse, Indian Artifact, walked through the open gate, Roth tried to coax him back into his stall. Somehow, Roth ended up under the horse, and his hooves crushed her chest, said Roth's husband, Tommy McFall.
"The horse was just walking; Glynis tried to stop him, and something went wrong," McFall said.
Roth was in Benton with her daughter Maeve, 15.
Over two years, Roth and Indian Artifact competed in at least 30 events, McFall said.
On Saturday, Indian Artifact was back in his pasture at the family's Southlake home. But Roth, whose laugh usually wafted through the house as she prepared gourmet meals in the kitchen, was gone.
"She was 50 years old but lived at least 70 years because she never stopped," McFall said. "She enjoyed life in a way I don't think anybody ever has."
Roth was a veterinarian at Richland Animal Hospital in North Richland Hills for 20 years. She would cook the evening meal during her lunch hour, then ride in the evenings.
"That was her true love, to be out there in the field with her horses," McFall said. "I'm absolutely convinced that she was happy and in her element and doing what she wanted to do until the last second of her life."
What a waste. How sad. Did you know her?
We've done business with that vet clinic before but I don't think I met her.
Cyn was capable of this when we got her... couldn't get in her way!
She should have closed the door?
Bud has barreled past me when I was leading him through a gate. He smashed my elbow on the gate but I didn't break anything.
It's easy to see how an accident like this could happen. If I leave a stall door open and the horse starts to walk out, I'll block them with my body. At an unfamiliar place, like the competition that this vet was at, a spook is a likely occurance and probably what happened.
Yeah, she should have but I've done the same thing.
Unfortunate things are going to happen sometime. There's just no avoiding. You try to be as safe as you can but you just never know. There is no way to foresee everything.
Becky
Yeah. Sometimes you have no choice. At the very start I was taught to close the door when I put them in and I hated being in a closed stall putting them up. I close it when I come out but you can't come out side by side. Mine stand there until I click for them to come out but if they got spooked.......
Any horse that's already decided to bolt ("I'm gonna go for it!") is dangerous to walk in front of, you're right. They're too big to stop if they don't want to!
My family really worried, (probably still does) when I started riding so much by myself. I always told them, if I wait till some one will go with me I will get to ride very little, so if something ever happens to me out there, don't be sad, I died doing what I love.
But the last few years, I've worried about NOT dieing if somthing happend and either landing up a parapeligic and a burden on my family or just laying out there hurt for a long time. That wouldn't be good. But when it comes to riding by myself or not riding, there just isn't much of a choice. There just are not that many people around here who really want to ride much.
Becky
I very seldom went in the stall with them. I would lead them to the door face them in take off their halters and in they would go. I had the water/feed buckets where I didn't have to go in to fill them. I'm with you, I don't like being in a closed in stall with the best of them.
Becky
I do that with Bay at the gate when I'm putting him back out... 95% of the time he goes where he's supposed to, but once in a blue moon, he decides to wheel around and trot around the yard like he's getting away with something. Fun and games.
"Unfortunate things are going to happen sometime."
Ain't that the truth! If you handle large animals, you gotta be willing to take some risk. But, if I get killed by a horse, I'd hope my family has sense enough not to put in my obit that I "died doing what I love." Wherever I am, you can rest assured, I'M PISSED.
Do you carry a cell phone with you?
As a safety measure, that'd be good, especially if Mack's not around to know when you left and clock when you should be back.
My cell phone signal is really iffy out in the woods. 90% of the time they know when I leave, I tell them how long I intend on riding, and the general area I'm going to be riding in. The kids and I have names for all the trails so they would know were to find me. Even if Mack is working I call him when I leave and when I get back.
Becky
Well I stay with the head but my biggest concern is tripping. I never lock the gate. I just pull it closed so I could get out in a hurry if I needed to. They don't know that though.
LOL. Oh, Tuffy, that's priceless:')
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