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>Not all these folks who end up with a horse in trouble are
evil or are running for the "win." Sometimes, it just happens thru
ignorance (me) or inexperience (me) or having the wrong horse for the sport
(me).
And sometimes there isn't even any ignorance or
inexperience involved, nor is it the wrong horse--unless you consider the horse
to be "the wrong horse" because he has an aneurysm lurking, or a tumor ready to
rupture, or some other flukey thing that could have just as well caused you to
go out and find him dead in the pasture in the morning as to have him die under
you at a ride.
I personally can't imagine a worse experience, and am
grateful that the only horse I've had with such a problem DID die at home in the
pasture, but I've sure vetted a couple that were just healthy and fine at
the last vet check, and then went jogging nicely out, only to either fall down
dead under the rider (aneurysm), or collapse and later be euthanized and posted
(ruptured tumor). Both of those cases were wonderful horses for the sport,
well cared for, not overridden, riders were experienced, and riders were not
ignorant. There simply was nothing that anyone could have done. The
only small consolation was that, like riders who die alongside the trail,
they died doing something they appeared to love to do.
Heidi
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