Giant Ryan

[Merlinsky]

Update as of 10pm 6/9: Giant Ryan to go to New Bolton for surgery.

They must have a decent enough pulse in that foot that they think they can try to save him so I gotta think of this as good news for now. The last odds I've heard was 50/50 survival, but that was a few hours ago. Just to reiterate, he fractured both left front sesamoids and had ligament damage behind his left front ankle. On NBC earlier, Dr. Bramlage basically said the arterial damage was bad enough to make blood flow an issue. Fingers crossed.

Does anybody know the risk of laminitis with an injury like the left front vs. a hind leg in terms of equine weight distribution, getting up and down, etc?