[lajollasurfer]

Too heavy; you can tell from this incident how fragile those small legs are supporting the horses weight. When repaired the blood does not flow properly unless the horse can move and with two broken ankles she was not going to move.

[Secret Agent Man]

I don’t see why they couldn’t give a small amount of support of the front (so it can’t touch ground/bottom) and put them in a pool. Kind of have a hoist around the front to keep weight off the front legs, but they can move around, but not put any weight on them. Yeah youd have to drain the pool and such. But I have seen them do this with other animals therapeutic swimming and such.