ridecamp@endurance.net: Re[2]: Bighorn tragedy

Re[2]: Bighorn tragedy

WarholNW@ccmail.apldbio.com
Tue, 11 Jul 95 09:43:13 PDT

I heard this story at the ROC- It seem the horses took off out of camp
and headed up into the mountains. One did belong to the Kanavy's, in
fact it was the first alternate on the North East team for the NA
Championships. Valerie took Cash and followed the horses tracks into
the mountains. She found where they had gone up a steep hill that she
was not going to climb on Cash. She sent him back to camp (the
current World Champion!) and climbed up to find the horses. She found
the other horse kind of scraped up, but she found hers with a badly
broken leg. The horse could not be removed, so it was put down there.

This is what I heard, so I cant say it is totally accurate.

Nick

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Subject: Re: Bighorn tragedy
Author: reshan@deyr.ultranet.com (C.M.Newell) at CCMAIL
Date: 7/10/95 6:16 PM

>

>... According to what I heard some horses bolted out
>of an electric fence and ran off into some barbed wire. One horse
>(belonging to the Kanavy's?) broke its leg in a cattleguard and had to
>be destroyed....
>I understand this has raised the question again as to whether electric
>fences should be banned at endurance ride camps.
>
>
>Karen Steenhof
>Boise, Idaho

Sounds pretty awful, but horses get loose. Should we ban halters
because some horses break them? Or require tow ropes to tie them with so
they can't break those? (Don't take this as an attack--it isn't.)
--C.M.Newell
"The expression in a horse's eye is like a blessing on a good man's house."
--Sayied iben-el Rabil, quoting the Prophet