What is really sad is when you are willing to spend any amount and just don't have it. The treatment this horse is getting is only available to owners with mega bucks. The average or even above average owner would not realistically have this option of treatment. You can insure horses, but that gets cost prohibitive; to carry a policy that would cover this type of treatment is also out of the question for most people who own horses.
I am glad this horse is able to get this level of treatment, and I hope for the best for him.
I was thinking the same thing as you were, when the surgeon, who is the tops in his field, said he had operated on all three breaks in his career, but never all on the same horse or all at one time.
This was a first, at least for him - and who would have much more experience in this than he does, ya know? So, I pray that this will advance the state of the art of horse medicine, if possible, just as Ruffian's tragedy advanced it to the water pool recovery from anesthesia, which may have saved Barbaro.