This past
weekend at the 3-Day Event at Rebecca Farm in Montana a Junior Novice horse
fell at a jump and died, probably of a broken neck. Very sad, but
true. Is it the rider's fault for jumping the jump which they have trained
for...absolutely not. Nothing is certain in life, we do our best and live
our lives.
Back when the AERC was discussing the necessity for the HWC a
pretty detailed analysis was performed. This was the results of that
analysis. The morality rates (given in mortality per 1000 per day) for
horses in general came from the USDA sources (if I remember correctly). It
was also compared to TB race horses which was given in mortalities per
start.
The mortality rates for endurance horses were calculated based
on ride day and up to two days after. The mortality rates for endurance
horses were higher - significantly so but not alarming so.
Although
the mortality rate for TB race horses was significantly higher that for
horses at endurance rides ( one in 500), there were 990 starts in 100's
that year and three dead horses, which is one in 330. That in and of
itself should be a wakeup call.
This was published in the
EN.
BTW the population of "horses" is very large to the population of
horses that do an endurance ride therefore you would not expect to see a
lot of them in clinics. What is important is the number normalized the the
population not the raw number.
Truman
patty peck
wrote: > -------------------------------- >
>There are horses that colic daily - a few die. From the >work Jim
> >Michell did and the mortality rates he had found >-
there aren't many > >compared to the horse population. The
>mortality rate of endurance > >horses (defined as death at
a >ride or within a few days) is a little > >higher than the
>general population but not alarming so. > > I
don't know about this. > My roomate works at one of the largest
equine hospitals > in the region and the largest population of colics is
the > back yard horse.They do several colic surgeries a week and
> have only had one endurance horse in four years. > > The
surgery barn is always full of hunter,jumpers,reiners, > breeders,pets
and no endurance > horses!!!!!(there are plenty around here). Is it
because > they don't make it to the OR I don't think so. I really
> think it is because the percentage of endurance horses >
that > colic is lower than the general population. Due to the >
extreme care we do take of our horses and how alert we are > to EDPP.
Just an observation. Patty > >
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