Derby Trail Forums - Worst Spill You've Seen

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Originally Posted by todko

I was there that day. They butchered that "ambulance run". The guy next to me called them "farm hands". Appropriate description. They brought the water truck and hosed the horse off, one of the gate workers must have diagnosed heat exhaustion. Then they tried to drag him to his feet. By the halter first. The vet was nowhere to be found. It was pathetic.

Before they killed the horse they finally surmised it was a broken shoulder. That's why the horse couldn't get up. The horse thrashed forever. The nitwits were practically torturing that horse.

You're right. Little kids were crying and screaming. I remember a little girl on her dad's shoulders begging her dad to make them "stop hurting the horse".

I damn near starting crying too . . . it was very bad.

I was there that day as well and it was bad. It was a Friday afternoon and for people who don't go to RD that much, there's always a bunch of little kids sitting right on the rail so that made it that much worse. The vet at RD is a joke to me. About a month ago, Perry Outzs took his horse over to the vet during the post parade and told him that he had a limper. The vet just said ," you take that up with the owner."

Didn't Snack win the WEBN at Turfway?

On a more positive note, how great of a feeling is it when a horse goes down and you think oh ****..... then he just gets up a starts running and everything is fine!