I wonder how many horses were lost training in calvery.
Bunny;Pancake;Head You know the drill.
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Overnight leader Amy Tryon ended Saturday in second after adding 3.2 time penalties, but promptly withdrew the horse at the end of cross country. The horse sustained a serious injury at the last fence to his left front ankle and was moved from the finish to a veterinary clinic by horse ambulance.
“He has lost the ligamental support to the fetlock of the left front leg,” said FEI Veterinary Delegate Dr. Catherine Kohn. “He is resting comfortably this evening.”
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Since I can’t bear to watch the footage I won’t speak in her defense but will say that it is very dangerous to pull up a galloping horse on XC in front of a fence. She may have thought he’d just stung himself or threw a shoe and figured she’d get let him go at the last jump and be done with it.
Then again, seeing as she was winning, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was more focused on coming in under the time and thus didn’t realize how hurt the horse was.
Very, very sad, no matter what.
I’m no “horse” person, but did happen to catch a bit of the “cross-country”
competition on NBC.
I missed the part about the injured horse, but that sort of equine
competition sure beats the heck out of the usual races like the Derby and
the stadium-enclosed jumping competitions that I ususally see on TV.
It was cool to hear William Shatner do the voice-over for one of the
adverts for one of the horse association; IIRC, he puts on an equine
charity event for the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles.
But...why aren’t there more Black riders in dressage?