I heard this story [Real audio link] on NPR this morning, and started doing a search to find out more. Nothing on Sports Illustrated, or CNN, which surprised me. I know that show horses aren't high on the list of sports news, but with an attack like this, I thought it would have gotten SOME coverage. Fortunately, Google came to the rescue, and I found a local article: Attack on horses shocks show participants.
According to the NPR report, they don't know what substance was injected into the horses' legs. One of the newspaper articles said it was acid, but I don't know if that's accurate.
I am no Saddlebred fan. In fact, one of the colleges I applied to was heavily into the 5-gaited horses, which was one of the main reasons I chose not to go there. But for someone to maliciously hurt each of these five horses enough to make them lame enrages me. Not enough to kill, it seems. Just to put them out of competition.
From another article:
Each horse developed a hole where flesh was dying on the rear pastern between the ankle and hoof. Only the left front leg of each horse appeared to have been touched, Lopez said.I can only say further that I really hope it wasn't someone involved in the show horse business. To imagine that a competitor would do such a thing to another's horses does not make me think that he or she would treat his own horses well.
Comments (2)
Jeez. Sounds like the third chapter of a Dick Francis novel.
Posted by Brennan | July 13, 2003 7:03 PM
Posted on July 13, 2003 19:03
Yeah right... you don't have a clue about Show horses... you don't need to spout your mouth about stuff you don't know about!
Posted by Gina | October 17, 2003 11:34 AM
Posted on October 17, 2003 11:34