Horse bites off boy's arm

Trinidad Express ^ | February 21, 2004 | Richard Charan

[kerosene]

Seven-year-old David Sinanan reached out to touch the face of a "friendly looking" horse, and the stallion ripped his left arm off from his shoulder yesterday.

Doctors at the Mt Hope Hospital tried, but failed in their attempt last night to reattach the hand.

Sinanan's life was saved because of the efforts of horse farm worker Deonanan Sankar, 30, who stopped the attack, rescued the boy and kept him alive until paramedics came.

Sinanan had stayed away from classes because he did not want to take part in his school's Carnival celebrations.

The incident happened just before 11 a.m. yesterday at the horse farm at Williams Trace, Ragoonanan Road, Enterprise. The farm is owned by noted race horse owner and trainer Maniram "Boboy" Maharaj.

Sinanan's weeping grandfather, Sinanan Toolsie, said the boy stayed home yesterday because he did not want to take part in the Carnival celebrations at school.

Instead, Sinanan, his two brothers and a friend travelled on their bicycles to the farm a quarter mile from their home.

Sankar was tending the horses when he saw the boy.

He said: "I saw this little fella riding his bike near the fence with the horse Java In Flight running up and down. He put down the bike and jump the drain.

"He reach his arm and before I could bawl out, he put out his hand and touch the horse nose."

Sankar said that from about 100 feet away, he saw the horse "snatch and raise the boy off the ground.

"The boy held on the bar of the fence, but Java In Flight raised him over the railing and high the the air and start to shake him, swinging him like a kite."

Sankar said he screamed to the horse "and Java In Flight drop the boy and run away with the hand in his mouth."

Sankar said he covered the boy in towels and tried to stop the blood.

"He would have died if I didn't help. He said he not moving his hand. I told him don't worry, the doctors would fix him up."

Sinanan was said to be in critical condition at hospital.

Cunupia Police are investigating.

[FITZ]

I think in most cases the horse knows what it's doing --- when we were kids, my uncle's horse would kick us if he didn't want us to catch him --- I thought I knew what being kicked by a horse was --- sometimes he'd knock us down with those kicks --- later in this town a groom at the race track was kicked to death, the horse pinned him against the wall of the stall and used all 4 hooves to get him. That's when I realized that a more gentle horse adjusts the force of it's kicks so you aren't going to be injured. Even when you think a horse is accidently standing on your foot --- it's not an accident, they think it's funny.

[kaylar]

A loooooong time ago-WJC was still in the WH-an article was posted to FR , about a horse that killed AND ATE a little boy. I posted to that thread, and I said what I'll say here : The only horse I wanna be around is a Breyer, and a stablemate Breyer at that!

[NRA2BFree]

We did something mean w/our shetland pony, We gave him away @ a "youth" carnival..."DADDY! DADDY!...Guess, What I won!" (w/10 hay bales,feed,halter,blanket.. problem solved.)...We laughed all the way back to the house.

You are sooooo bad. LOL! I don't blame you for getting rid of that Shetland. They're a real pain. I sure don't want another one.

[Junior]

Wow. Disarmed by a horse...

[Xenalyte]

I still have all my Breyers! They're worth something on eBay, or would be if I ever polished 'em up and got the newsprint smudges off.

[maui_hawaii]

I'm sensing a South Park episode...

[MaryFromMichigan]

I would have left and come back with a gun!

Too bad the boy was unarmed!
Oh, that was bad...

[al_c]

Y'all gotta see this.

[CindyDawg]

ok. where is this though? :')

[CindyDawg]

Never mind. I know where I am now lol

[ZOTnot]

Post # 10:

FUNNY!!!!

[CindyDawg]

This is really reassuring, considering that I'm going to ride alone for the first time today. I think I'll have the vet pull them all next month and just start feeding him oatmeal :')

[Drawsing]

My first job as a teenager was taking care of 25 horses in a boarding stable. My job was to let them into their stalls and feed them etc... Each horse had a definite personality. Some were kickers. They would put their nose in the feedbox and start kicking behind them immediately as a reflex action. Others were biters and some were gentle. The stallion's stall was completely enclosed in strong fencing material. I was not allowed to feed him until the owner or an experienced assistant could go in and lead him out of the stall.

Some of the horses were stump-suckers. They would grab their stall door with their teeth, bare their gums and inhale forcefully. They did this until the wood was all chewed up and the owner had to coat the wood with tar to prevent this behavior.

[hedgetrimmer]

I took care of a stable once that had a stallion. He was an Arabian that had for some reason been running wild in the Sierra Nevada mountains for a while, until he was caught by the man that owned the stable.

I never walked past his stable door, I walked way around it. He would lunge out and try to bite if you got too close to his stall door. He was covered with scars, because if there was a mare in heat near him, he would just run through the fence; he was a very difficult animal to manage.

I cared for the other horses no problem, but this one had to be put out of his stall before I would go in and clean it.

[kaylar]

You bet they'll sell well! I've thought of repurchasing my stablemates myself-the pre 1978 ones, that were made of a better material and had beautiful airbrushed paintjobs...The quality really plummeted after 1978 or so.

[nobody_knows]

I told ya she was mean!

[Xenalyte]

All mine date from between 1976 and 1981 or so. (I think I stopped buying them in junior high school.) My best friend Kira and I had the entire set between us, with about 25% overlap, and we gave them names and personalities and family structures and a society and the whole bit. We used to schlep our collections to each other's houses in pillowcases.

There was a magazine that told people how to alter their Breyers - make a bent leg straight, or paint a white tail black - and that always fascinated me.

How much do they cost new, these days? I remember saving and saving to buy Justin Morgan.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

I have a stallion, and altho I never forget he is a stallion, he has been up to this point the gentlest most dependable horse I have owned. My daughter trained him to run barrels when she was 14 and he was probably 8. When I have people uneducated in the sport of riding and they want to ride, I put them on Rocky. We have taken him on overnight trail rides and had him stand tied to a post with mares all around him with no problems. But to tell the truth, I will never own another one because like I said you can never for get he is a stud, and it is a worry when we take him places. The best thing about him is he passes his good nature on to his babies.

Becky

[kaylar]

Last time I saw them new was at an Orschelin a few years back. I think they were about 7.00, certainly less than 10.00 But the quality is sorry : No nice ceramic-like plastic, not fine detailing, no airbrushed coats...They make them out of a metal substance that does not show up the detailing in the face and legs, the coats are all one color-even the manes and tails are the exact same shade as the body, and no stockings or blazes.

I made mine stables out of cardboard boxes, and I put dried grass as hay in there for them, and some seeds my father intended for planting. The cardboard stables looked very nice : Till mty parents found out and realized that not only was I stealing their planting seeds, I was putting out a rodent buffet in my bedroom. Thus endeth the great stablemate stable construction creativity project. (PS. All mine had names, too.)

[Xenalyte]

The very small ones could live in shoebox corrals! Kira and I used to take ours out in the front yard, where our mothers had unaccountably invested in piles of mulch, which made THE perfect horse living arrangement.

Sounds like you had an equally elaborate set-up!