The Pay Your Respects to Dead Racehorses Thread

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1043

You can see in Erecā€™s soulful eyes there, heā€™s haunted by the pressures of the sport. No doubt a lot of unresolved issues from his childhood and his castration.

Iā€™d say they could make an unreal ā€œBehind the Fameā€ type documentary about Erec.

1044

He was a stallion mate

1045

With the leg break, could he not have recovered and stood as a stallion?

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1046

No. They tried it before.

1047

How do you get a horse to keep his weight off a broken leg ?

1048

Is this like the elephant into a mini joke?

1049

even if you could get it to keep weight off itā€™s leg it would get laminitis in the other ones. There really is nothing can be done, you could keep it in traction until it heals. Even then itā€™s almost impossible to get the leg to heal, the bones are so light they shatter and bend before they break to the point where you couldnā€™t get the leg to heal right.

It really is the most humane thing to do in the situation

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1050

No, they get more pleasure from shooting them ā€¦ all they had to do was keep him elevated in a contraption for a few weeks and come in and move his other legs manually . All the money in horse racing and they cant save a poor horse after bate-ing it around the field

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1051

He was in a very bad place near the end.

1052

Iā€™ve been playing around with Twitter @Copper_pipe

https://twitter.com/sevenbarrows/status/1111996871801737217?s=19

1053

Josses hill. Gallop free my old friend.

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1054

Hard to type this one :disappointed_relieved:

Swamp Fox :pleading_face:

A horse that defines everything good about NH racing.

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1055

Sorry for your loss, mate.

1056

The Swamp has been drained.

Not the Fox news any of us wanted to hear.

1057

Fuck off you dumb cunt.

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1058

I was expressing sympathy with the horse, its connections and National Hunt racing followers in general, pal

Your ignorant reaction to a post made in good faith is something that does the image of National Hunt followers no good

Real racing people could do without boo boys like yourself

1059

Lady Kaya :cry:

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1060

Nothing breaks like a leg,

1061

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAFnhmCXsAIbcF6?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

RIP

She has lost her battle with Colic

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