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The Advice Guru
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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