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To: AnAmericanMother; CindyDawg; Xenalyte
If that horse ever hurt somebody else again, they'd have it on their consciences

All Jr's guilty of is tumbling on over a jump gone wrong. There's a lot of acts of malice horses can be guilty of, but that accident isn't one of them.

So people were warned to give him a wide berth in the aisle. Lots of stallions can prone to biting, particularly if they're bored in a stall and kids might be likely to go give him treats if they weren't warned to stay away.

There were two people at that farm who had permission to handle him. At a barn full of lesson kids, I don't see anything unusual about that. Doesn't mean he wasn't good for anything but Alpo. Jeepers, ladies!

69 posted on 03/22/2007 10:26:42 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog; CindyDawg; AnAmericanMother

I gotta say, Junior was one of the most beautiful horses I'd ever seen. He was a gorgeous rich red-brown - I called him bay, but I don't know now if he might not have been chestnut, technically - with not a white hair on him.

He'd have been beautiful breeding stock. I don't remember enough about him to judge whether he had an actual temperament disorder or was just bored.


70 posted on 03/22/2007 10:29:32 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Would you have kept him at your stables?


71 posted on 03/22/2007 10:31:40 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: HairOfTheDog
It sounded like he jumped on ol' Patrick on purpose. If he just fell over the fence . . . well, it happens. In fact, it's happened to me and it wasn't the horse's fault at all (that's how I broke the little finger on my right hand, in fact nearly broke it OFF. But my hand surgeon reattached it very neatly.)

It would create a liability problem in the future for his owners if the action was deliberate.

78 posted on 03/22/2007 10:41:30 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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