Nitpick: The singlular of “testes” isn’t “teste”, it’s “testis”. I’ll (grudgingly) tolerate English plurals to Latin nouns, but not back-formed English singulars.
Ruffian’s injury was much worse. Even today, they couldn’t have saved her. At least with Barbero, the hoof stayed where you expect a horse’s hoof to be.
'tis true. she had cuts and hemor. she was in very bad straits going into surgery.
amazing how some horses really touch you. 31 years later and we are still heartbroken over ruffian. and go for wand… some just really capture you as soon as you see them. barbaro has that something as well.
so far so good for barbaro. he is out of surgery and on his feet. now it is up to him to stay calm and recover.
Check out the picture. That’s just plain silly.
Of course, they changed the photo. Here
Very much so. Ruffian was just a great horse. I actually had a bet on her that day (at OTB, not at the track). The race just stunned me, and the image of her hobbling around still gets to me.
Oh, that’s so sad. Too bad there aren’t horse anti-anxiety meds to give them while you keep them immobile.
So, so very sad.
watching the philly news, they showed pictures of him in operating theatr, recovery, and the xray. amazing surgery. the vet.s at bolton will be going over this surgery for years. amazing.
earlier today while discussing barbaro and horse injuries; they showed film of ruffian winning one of her races. it was good to see her running.
Or just set the bone and inject a few nanites. And I assume they don’t make horse-sized versions of those doggie carts.
I just remembered-don’t we have a poster here named Ruffian?
Ruffian I saw on TV at home, and that was bad. Go For Wand, I was at a race book, and of course, it was on the big screen. Those images are burned indelibly in my mind (graphic warning).
But I still go.
DD
I remember seeing something on The History Channel about a fire horse back about a hundred years ago or so, that while racing to a fire, got his hoof caught in some railroad ties while crossing the track and he kept going, so fast he tore the hoof clean off. But he still kept going and they didn’t even realize until they got back to the station, where of course, he had to be put down.
That’s what the Go For Wand pictures reminded me of.
vetbridge - I think it’s still the case that the Jockey Club doesn’t recognize offspring from AI breedings. At least when I had my mare bred the stud owner said they wouldn’t accept it.
Yep, here it is in the Jockey Club regulations for registration.
So getting sperm before putting him down would be pointless from a racing standpoint.
Guinistasia - Yep, we have a Ruffian, and she took her name from the great horse.
StG
no worries, guinastasia, barbaro is on some very lovely drugs right now.
it’s just some animals have a laid back personality, like barbaro and some have a spunky personality like ruffian. laid back does better with this type of injury. spunky does better with infections and colds.
i have a cat that really fights tranqs. she still hissed, growls, and in very slow motion, strikes out. she is a fighter. it worked well for her when she had to fight off a really bad infection when she was 10 days old. it would work against her if she had to have a long, quiet, recovery. she would fight the tranq. and the injury and do more damage.
Thankfully, I did not see it in person, but was watching live on TV. I will never forget it, either. The image that haunts me most was her groom kneeling at her head sobbing “Wanda, Wanda” over and over.
I believe it was the same year, a well known steeplechase was televised, and the spectacular dapple grey named Dark Ivy came over a jump, and came down wrong… very, very wrong, and snapped his neck. These are images I wish I could erase from my mind, bu I will carry with me till my dying day.
Is anybody else surprised that horses are so fragile? It seems remarkable to me that an animal used in a military capacity for thousands of years should go down so easily. Or is it that racehorses are significantly more fragile than cavalry horses or plowhorses or any other kind of horse?
They certainly do shoot horses. My wife ran into a horse a few years ago. He had gotten out of his pasture, wandered across the road to investigate an orchard, then decided to cross the road just as Mrs. R came along. Smashed the heck out of the car.
I went up the road to see what was going on, and wish I hadn’t.
He was standing there, the lower part of his foreleg swinging around, attached by a thread.
There was a cop there, too; I went home and a while later heard a shot.
First I’ve seen those. They are horrible; Ruffian was bad, but not like this.
Someone on the news yesterday said one of the problems is that there are two main blood vessels that could be obstructed. So even if there isn’t bleeding, they could still have problems.
My SIL spent a fortune getting her horse to the point where they wouldn’t have to put him down. But all he can really do is just hang around. She can ride him, but as far as I know, she can’t run him.