18 years in racing I’ve managed to weezle my way out of this job..

poiuytrewq

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Until today😳

Cleaning a horses post wind Op throat hole
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I can stomach most things and have seen and dealt with some pretty nasty situations/injuries.
I’ve assisted in a wind op, this weirdly was absolutely fine. Helped with lots of geldings, vets always find it amusing to say “hold this” and pop a ball in your hand. Not a worry.
Throat holes literally make me wobble, just can’t stand it, and have cleverly managed to pass the job on to someone else or be super “busy” elsewhere.
This evening it was me and a young new girl to the yard, I casually dropped into the conversation “so we, or one of us needs to clean that horses throat”
Hoping she’d offer, instead she visibly paled and said she was sorry but didn’t think she could, to which I had to reply “ahhh no worries I’ll do it, not a problem”

To be fair I’ve seen worse, it wasn’t too bad and the horse, whom I’ve never met before was as good as gold, didn’t flinch.

So that’s hopefully the last time I have to do that ……. 🤢🤞
 

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Can't find any images on Google either 🙃 I'm curious now 😂
I’ll try and take one tomorrow for you. I’m not actually on the yard in the morning but will be doing him (eugh as I type that I just realised 😂) in the evening so if the light is good enough I’ll do it then.
It is interesting. When you go into racing if you ever get the opportunity be the one to assist the vet, or even just hang round and watch do it! I used to stay on after when I was there full time to do vet stuff, loved it.
 
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