Kona Gold RIP

Indian Charlie · #1 09-26-2009, 12:18 PM

I always wanted to see him try a longer distance.

Java Gold, Slew o' Gold?

Pedigree Ann · #2 09-26-2009, 01:17 PM

Had a friend with lovely grey eventing horse (a TB) she called Teddy (for Teddy Bear). He was kind and honest, so gentle she could ride around with her toddler in front of her in the saddle. One morning he didn't come to the gate to be led in for his breakfast; they searched the paddock and found him down with a broken shoulder. Never found out how he did it. All those years of running cross-country courses with tricky fences and he was never seriously hurt, then when out in his pasture he managed to suffer a fatal injury. It happens.

chucklestheclown · #3 09-26-2009, 08:44 PM

Bigfoot. Seriously, there are cameras everywhere these days, why aren't people watching million-dollar horses 24/7?

Danzig · #4 09-26-2009, 11:46 PM

so, you think if there was someone watching him, he wouldn't have gotten hurt? more like they'd have seen it happen, but it would have still happened.

chucklestheclown · #5 09-28-2009, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Danzig

so, you think if there was someone watching him, he wouldn't have gotten hurt? more like they'd have seen it happen, but it would have still happened.

If someone saw what happened that would help it from happening again. At the very least, hopefully. My limited time here and elsewhere leads me to question what people do with or watch over their "investments." Then again, I look at the state of the union and it truly is a microcosim(?) of capitalism as a whole.

Danzig · #6 09-28-2009, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by chucklestheclown

If someone saw what happened that would help it from happening again. At the very least, hopefully. My limited time here and elsewhere leads me to question what people do with or watch over their "investments." Then again, I look at the state of the union and it truly is a microcosim(?) of capitalism as a whole.

the horses don't realize their value, and are in fact still horses. they do crazy things. i remember reading about man o'war galloping madly about his paddock and the manager telling a worker to do something about it. he asked something along the lines of 'like what?' what are you going to do, wrap them in bubble wrap and keep them cross-tied? have four people constantly surrounding them?
danehill was on a lead calmly munching grass when he reared up, going over backwards and suffering a fatal injury. they're horses first and foremost. things will happen.

letswastemoney · #7 09-28-2009, 05:38 AM

It wouldn't hurt to have cameras around the paddocks, though I'm not sure where they'd be placed