[Fwd: RC: heart attacks in horses]

[wsabg@t-online.de (Wolfgang Schwingenheuer)]

Tivers@aol.com wrote:

>
> Nope. One minute he was just a normal exhausted horse, the next minute he was
> down and flailing.
>
> ti

Hi all,

we had one dead horse in 1992 at a ride. I was the manager of that ride and got a
call that a horse died few hundred meters after a vet check. A veterinarian
pathologist examined the horse and found out that the gelding died because of a heart
attack. We took a look at the vet card and even the ride vet, who checked the horse
in the vet check, said there were no irregularities, the horse came in with 48 bpm
(!). The rider had to wait for his wife, whose horse took a bit longer to meet
criteria, and they went on in slow trot. Suddenly the horse groaned and fell aside.
He was dead within seconds.

Wolfgang + Ninja 11
Germany