Anyone else see the racehorse program??

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Wow, did anyone else see the racehorse disection on tele about half an hour ago? It was soo amazing!! It was incredible to see just how easy it is to damage the tendons and how gigantic the lungs are!! It was really amazing to get the chance to see into a real horse and look at all the different bits and pieces!! :)
 
Thought it was amazing, i have done equine dissections before and have seen the lungs inflated but it was amazing to see them inside the animal.

What i thought i was amazing when i did my dissections was the size of the brain compared to the heart, the brain fits on one hand!
 
Just watched it, am abroad but some kind person had uploaded it to a video site.. made for fascinating viewing! Nice to get an insight into anatomy and 'how' everything works.

Pretty gruesome at times as well though!
 
Hiya yes I watched it, it was really educational and interesting to be able to see everything inside the horses body and how it all works.
 
i thought it was amazing. although the tendon snapping was quite disgusting as i ate my tea!! i love how the heart actually was the shape of a love heart! they are incredible animals, hope the owners didnt watch tho
 
It was very interesting, had to watch it through my fingers though.:D

Couldnt beleive how big their intestines were, they were huge! I know they re big animals but :eek: I read alot of vetinary manuals and things but the pictures dont really give you the same sense of size that i saw on the programme last night.

Also i thought the look inside the horses foot was good you were able to see everything in its place which makes it more realistic than the illustrations in books.

ps, the part where the tendon is cut *shudder* was not a good sound.
 
i thought it was amazing, very very interesting. specially the lung size!! :eek: and how small they are when there is no air in them...but explain why you look at a horse' flank to see breathing movements.

Also strange how low the horses fetlock goes when galloping almost parallel to the hoof yuck.
Size of the heart too, compared to human.
There is research to show that top racehorses i.e. constant winners and some horses that won pretty much every race they ever ran, have hearts that weighed around 13lbs! So they actually had a real engine, called it the 'X factor gene' and is passed down through fillies.
 
Just watched it, am abroad but some kind person had uploaded it to a video site.. made for fascinating viewing! Nice to get an insight into anatomy and 'how' everything works.

Pretty gruesome at times as well though!

Do you have the link, i really want to see it!
 
With lungs like that, it's easy to see how they can blow themselves up when you girth them - lol!

Showing how the Tb is such an athlete, really makes me appreciate my stunningly engineered my Tb girl is now, rather than the rolled eyes I get when I tell other horsey people I have one.

Would have liked to have seen a Tb comparison with a Shire/heavy horse and the differences in how they're built for each of their respective jobs.
 
Although they mentioned how the horse takes in so many breaths a minutes when galloping, they didn't mention the speed of the air as it rushes over the larynx, I can't remember the actual figures, but one scientist said it is the greatest force/speed in nature.

I resolved to go and get some new boots for my horse, after seeing how that tendon snapped (although it was a scapel and the leg was under maximum load, which is very high. Again, they didn't mention how many lbs pressure they were putting on).

The hoof dissection wasn't the same horse, it was a grey one I thought, unshod and with a very nice thick sole!

The whole programme was so interesting though, excellent.
 
Amazing show! Only one problem for me: no point of comparison! I'd love to see a TB compared to a non-blood breed or Heinz 57, and then maybe those against a very different, but also artificially selected draft breed like a shire. In fact, why not just a whole series on the wonderful creature that is the horse and keep us all happy 80)
 
I resolved to go and get some new boots for my horse, after seeing how that tendon snapped (although it was a scapel and the leg was under maximum load, which is very high. Again, they didn't mention how many lbs pressure they were putting on).

Luckily it'd be an incredibly unusual injury as the horse's hind legs are out back behind the horse when the tendons are under such massive loads so most strike injuries happen when the tendons are less loaded, hence aren't as dramatic
 
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