[Rte66]

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.

[Tammy8]

This hits pretty close to home for me, we lost a horse to this type of injury 3 years ago. Our horse was not a race horse, it was just a freak accident- he was running and stopped and just took a bad step as he was stopping, shattered his lower leg. We could not believe the damage when we saw the xrays- it just seemed impossible that just a wrong step could cause that much damage. What was really awful was even though we took the horse to a top vet, the circulation in the leg had been interrupted too long and he could not be saved.