Home Current News News Archive Shop/Advertise Ridecamp Classified Events Learn/AERC
Endurance.Net Home Ridecamp Archives
ridecamp@endurance.net
[Archives Index]   [Date Index]   [Thread Index]   [Author Index]   [Subject Index]

RE: [RC] Horse hit by car at Tevis?/dink? - Susan E. Garlinghouse

The Colorado high-country wranglers use it to refer to horses that are less than a reliable ride usually through some inherent fault, like lameness or attitude, or too green to trust to carry the eggs, whiskey or your best rifle.  It’s always the horse in a pack string that gets put between your two best mules so that can’t (hopefully) get into too much trouble.

 

Susan Garlinghouse, DVM

 


From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Sherrell
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 6:50 AM
To: Ridecamp (E-mail)
Subject: FW: [RC] Horse hit by car at Tevis?/dink?

 

What is a "dink"?

 

Mike Sherrell
Grizzly Analytical (USA)
707 887 2919/fax 707 887 9834
www.grizzlyanalytical.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Susan E. Garlinghouse
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 6:22 PM
To: 'Jessica Tuteur'; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] Horse hit by car at Tevis?

>Does anyone have information on a horse that supposedly got hit by a car on the ride? We heard it was brought back to Foresthille and died there?????

 

The information I got from a friend who was there is that a horse died out of FH, but there was no car involved.  The horse had been doing well, passed the check, started down the street, the heart monitor went to zero and the horse dropped in his tracks, essentially dead before he hit the ground.  Almost 100% a blown aneurysm, and a coincidence that it occurred to an endurance horse at Tevis instead of a dink standing in pasture at home.  There was nothing anyone could have done to foresee it, prevent it or treat it.

 

It’s a devastating thing to have a horse you love drop dead underneath you like that.  The same thing happened to Trilby a few years back with Lad, same blown aneurysm.  Rather than cranking up the ridecamp rumor mill too high, I hope we can all just show sympathy and support for the rider and think that there but for the grace of God go I.

 

No criticism aimed at you, Jessica.  Just trying to nip this one in the bud.

 

Susan Garlinghouse, DVM


Replies
FW: [RC] Horse hit by car at Tevis?/dink?, Mike Sherrell