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Location: NeverLand | I am completely heart broken but want to see if anyone has heard of this or if anyone has any ideas so I can get some closure. I had 4 year old gelding as healthy as can be. In healthy weight. He was in shape I rode about 4 to 5 times a week. Saturday I had an amazing ride. He ate dinner that night . Yesterday morning I feed he was eating drinking just fine. After he finished his breakfast he went under his shed standing there with my two other horses. And I walked in the other room and about 10 mins later I look out my window and he was laying down. So I yelled his name and he didn't respond and that's not like him. So I ran out there and he was dead! It was like he dropped right in his tracks. He had a gash under his forelock on the soft spot and it looked like a pop from pressure? Could it be a brain aneurysm? I walked every inch of the field he was in no blood anywhere. It wasn't a kick to the head. If anyone has any thoughts let me know. Or if anyone has had this happen to them. |
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| I am so sorry, how terrible for you. I know of several horses that have died from an aneurism or a heart attack, one was during a run. Hugs and prayers |
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 Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Just wanted to offer my condolences and prayers. At least he went fast. My SIL just had one drop dead last week. I'm so sorry. |
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I just read the headlines
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| Bless your heart! I am sorry that this happened to you and your horse. I have heard of this but never experienced it. |
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | I'm sorry to hear that. My mom, when she was a littl girl (about 50-55 years ago) they had a horse do that, but no cause or explanation. They thought maybe he got into something poisonous, but they really didn't know as it was so quick. Sorry for your loss. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Oh my goodness how awful!! The only thing I could think of was a kick to the head... If it was a brain anurism(Sp?) I would think he would have blood coming out of his eyes and ears and nose...?... So very sorry.
You can always take him to a vet for an autospy.....
How sad.... |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | So sorry...id say heart attack or stroke. .it happens....m |
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| So sorry :( Wish I had answers for you.
You might be able to have a local vet do an autopsy for you .... just to have some closure. |
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 Works Hard For The Money
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Location: Memphis, TN | Could be have reared up and hit something in the shed? I thought my mare was going to die in front of me one day. My horses were up under a carport we have in front of our shop. One of my geldings tried to kick at her and she reared up while spinning around to try to get away from him. She hit her head on the carport hard enough to scrape skin off. She walked right outside the carport with her nose to the ground and started shaking her head and yawning. She started walking circles with her nose down like she was going to lay down. I was in a panic thinking I was watching her die. There wasn't anything I could do but sit and wait. She never laid down but shook her head for several minutes. I gave her bute, threw my PHT halter on her, and kept her in the round pen for a few hours so she could rest and I could keep an eye on her. Needless to say she rung her clock pretty hard. We keep the carport blocked off now. With the gash and popped area it sounds like he hit something in the wrong spot unfortunately. |
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Veteran
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| I'm sorry. Prayers to you. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I'm so sorry for your loss. That's horrible. I've heard of horses having aneurisms and just dropping dead. |
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Location: West Texas | We had a boarding horse die last week, standing up. We had an autopsy and it was a heart attack. I would bet that is what you had happen. Sorry for your loss. |
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Location: South Dakota | I am so sorry for your loss of a good horse and friend...big hugs. It just sucks when these kind of things happen  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Wow that is so sad, sorry that this happen |
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| I am so sad for you, what a horrible thing to happen :(
Hugs for you! |
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 Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | I'm so very sorry for your loss. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I would imagine he hit his head on something. I had a stud prospect that I bought and got home late Sunday night with him. Monday morning early my husband went out and fed him and we looked out the window a little later to find him laying dead next to the fence. He had rolled and when he flipped his head side to side he smacked it on the pipe post. Killed him instantly. A vet came out for insurance reasons and proved it, he had hemoraged right behind the ears where he hit his head. |
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Location: Phoenix | How devastating!! :(. I'm so sorry. Prayers!!! |
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 Roan On The Range
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Location: Stephenville, TX | I'm so sorry! It can happen to perfectly healthy horses with no warning.
This happened to one of my horses while I was riding her. Took her down to a walk after loping some circles, she staggered a little, so I hopped off her to check her and she seized up and hit the ground. She was dead within a few minutes. There was absolutely nothing I could do. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I am so sorry for your loss. |
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The Advice Guru
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| Sorry for your loss.
Best thing to do is get a vet out and find the root cause |
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Location: Nor Cal | Ugh, so sorry to hear this news. That is so sad. Thinking of you and your family!  |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | Im so very sorry for your loss |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | Bless your heart I am so sorry. Many prayers |
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 A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | Any electrical wires he could've bitten, or anything under the ground?
(I'm sorry for your loss.)
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 Toastest with the Mostest
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Location: That part of Texas | Tdove - 2016-03-07 11:27 AM We had a boarding horse die last week, standing up. We had an autopsy and it was a heart attack. I would bet that is what you had happen. Sorry for your loss.
+1 -- Only other time I've seen one go that suddenly was due to a heart attack and there's nothing that you can do about it or prevent it. Sending many hugs and prayers your way FTBGH -- there's nothing worse than losing one without warning like that. |
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 The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | 18 years ago, I watched my husband tack up a 2 year old Thoroughbred race prospect we had raised and were training. The colt was as sweet as always and in restrospect, we noticed nothing different in the way the horse moved or was behaving. Jim got on the colt, trotted him a mile on our track and then moved him into an easy lope. After a 1/4 mile Jim felt the colt stiffen and at the same time give a strange sound and then the colt fell to the ground dead on its side with Jim's leg under him. Jim said it happened so fast he couldn't react to jump off or get his foot out of the stirrup.
I don't think you need to beat yourself up about what could have happened. Sometimes they do for no reason. I'm so sorry for your loss, losing a horse is always heartbreaking. |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I'm so sorry for your loss. The spot you mention on his head makes me think he hit his head. The only horse I have seen (not in person it off videos) die like this was the great Canadian jumper hickstead after his round a few years ago, he had an aneurism. I had one that I thought was a goner last year she got kicked in the side of the head and neck... She could only walk in circles for 5-10 min but recovered thank god. |
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| I have had two in the last year just die...healthy...fairly young mares...just die... the first I believe to a heart attack and the 2nd we believe from early foaling complications...she wasn't due for another cple of months so we were not watching her very close, but she was normal and healthy one afternoon and the next morning....not so.... all I have are these two opinions, and we did not have autopsies done to verify cause of death. I have never lost a horse before these past few years and have owned horses my entire life.
Prayers go out to you, it is heart wrenching and sad when this happens... |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | FearTheBigGrayHorse - 2016-03-07 10:37 AM I am completely heart broken but want to see if anyone has heard of this or if anyone has any ideas so I can get some closure. I had 4 year old gelding as healthy as can be. In healthy weight. He was in shape I rode about 4 to 5 times a week. Saturday I had an amazing ride. He ate dinner that night . Yesterday morning I feed he was eating drinking just fine. After he finished his breakfast he went under his shed standing there with my two other horses. And I walked in the other room and about 10 mins later I look out my window and he was laying down. So I yelled his name and he didn't respond and that's not like him. So I ran out there and he was dead! It was like he dropped right in his tracks. He had a gash under his forelock on the soft spot and it looked like a pop from pressure? Could it be a brain aneurysm? I walked every inch of the field he was in no blood anywhere. It wasn't a kick to the head. If anyone has any thoughts let me know. Or if anyone has had this happen to them.
I could have been a head injury. He could have reared and hit his head, or he could have ran into something, even another horse, could have been a million different things. No matter what it was, it just plain sucks, that's for sure :( |
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Location: here | Prayers, sorry for your loss. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| I am so very, very sorry for your loss. Big hugs! |
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Location: KS | I'm so sorry for your loss.
* The horse in my avatar died from lightening a few years ago. There was a 10% chance of rain, didn't think of putting them up. Next morning I found him laying down, struck in the leg. It is always hard losing one. Many prayers.
Edited by ACowgirlsLastRun 2016-03-09 6:24 PM
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 Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia |
I'm so sorry to hear this. One of my absolute worst fears is finding one of mine dead in the pasture. We can do everything to protect them and keep them safe but sometimes it's just fate. A friend of mine had a super nice Furyofthewind 4 year old. They were just slow working barrels in the arena one day and the mare dropped dead with her still on her back. They think it was an aneurism. Incredibly heart breaking. Hugs to you.
Edited by Runninbay 2016-03-09 6:29 PM
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I didn't read all the comments so something like this may have already been posted. Im not a vet and I guess every case can be different but I don't think it was an aneurism. The best barrel horse I ever had dropped dead while I was standing right beside him in his stall brushing him to ride. He was 12. Perfectly heathy. Had just came back from NBHA Youth World 2 days before. His legs literally went out from under him. Once he hit the ground he never moved. We had an autopsy done and he had a brain aneurism. He only had a very little blood coming from his nose.
I'm so so sorry for your loss. I know how bad it was and every now and then still is on me. I was 16 and I had night mares/flashbacks from it. Not so much because of his death but because I witnessed it. I remember how it felt like everything was in slow motion and how helpless I felt and I was by my self and I didn't have my phone with me so I had to drive back to my house for help which isn't but about 600yard from my barn but It was awful. My dad actually met me half way up my drive way because he said he could hear me screaming.
Edited by TessBelle 2016-03-09 7:15 PM
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| ACowgirlsLastRun - 2016-03-09 7:19 PM
I'm so sorry for your loss.
* The horse in my avatar died from lightening a few years ago. There was a 10% chance of rain, didn't think of putting them up. Next morning I found him laying down, struck in the leg. It is always hard losing one. Many prayers.
This past year some friends of mine lost two horses to lightning. They had already accepted a 10k offer on the 2yo stud colt, and he was due to leave a few days later. They went out to feed, and both were laying right next to each other, the colt had broken his neck when he fell too, so not sure which one killed him. |
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Location: oklahoma |
So very sorry |
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Location: Missouri | Awe, how sad! I'm so sorry for your loss. |
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Sudden Death??