I'm glad those 2 horses are going to be okay. I always thought it was just too sad when a horse was destroyed for an injury that might be repaired as was common at one time. Still tragic that a horse died like that. I guess it's just me and horses. Somehow I always held them several notches above other animals, and while it's sad when any animal dies tragically, it just seems that horses are just too beautiful and noble to die like that.
Thank heaven veterinary medicine has improved as much as it has. BUT, they have found that horses don't make the best of patients. For instance, broken legs....technically, they can be set; the problem arises with them when the horses are brought out from under anesthesia--seems that a lot of what was taken as a horse thrashing to get up has been determined to be the animal's brain still thinking it is in the race and its legs get to moving a lot thereby re-breaking or reinjuring the leg.
They've come up with the temporary air casts (I can't think of the nomenclature right now) to immobilize an injured leg--its like an airbag they fill around the injured limb to take the pressure off the limb.
I read an article right after Seattle Slew died where some money he earned being paraded before he retired was donated to a couple of veterinary colleges--one of which provided a grant to a guy who developed a 'basket' for "wobbles" or neck skeletal problems--Slew had a surgery 2 years ago that used one of the baskets and it worked! And then again early this year they did it in a different spot on his neck--this was not too long before he died.