Knife attack on eventers horse

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oh my GOD. Was the hrose based at his yard? That's scary, really scary.

Poor horse I hope the foalie becomes a world beater and kicks that attacker's a**.
 
Good God. Does anyone know any more about this, this is utterly disgraceful. I cannot begin to imagine what kind of screwed up, evil being could contemplate something like this. Hang them out to dry I say.
 
I honestly have my doubts when I hear a lot of these stories...look at the evidence, the only thing saying it was a deliberate attack is a vet saying "it looked too clean a slice to me to have been done on something in the field" No real forensic examination by a specialist in the proper area...and it's amazing how clean a cut some accidental injuries can be.... The owner can't find an obvious cause....
...So from that the police are called "someone deliberately cut my horse" Vet says "looked like a very clean cut to me"
media gets report off police blotter...

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...and a few days later owner find a very sharp object in the field with a bit of blood and hair on the edge...even cuts their finger when they drag it out of the field....

Lightbulb goes on!

Feels like right idiot, but due to human nature decides to shut the hell up and stick to the original story that got them a lot of sympathy and a few donations to the vets bill.... Maybe some products from horsey businesses looking to do a good deed and get some publicity from rallying to the cause...

Sometimes being totally honest has costs...like making you look a fool and having to pay your own bills...

I think with proper forensic examination a lot of these cases would be dismissed as accidents...but who will pay those costs? Simpler to just let the media run with it!
 
Is anyone here in Oxon? I am not a million miles from where this happened, and am now worrying about my in foal mare who is out.
 
You have to wonder what the world is coming to....
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Things like this are even more worrying when horses are out in the field- no horse is going to stand loose and let you cut it which mean people must have a basic understanding of horses to be able to catch it & restrain it in an open space in the dark!!
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Im only about 12-15 miles away from where it happend - well my horses are
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Just pleased mare and foal are okay, but honestly why did this have to happen???
 
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This is a very isolated incident. I am inclined to agree with whoever pointed out earlier that there may be another cause but suppose that in the interests of alerting the equestrian community it might have been felt safer to assume this is a deliberate attack and publicise it as such. Often these injuries are caused by something in the field, or even a badger or similar, but it would be very hard to tell.
 
following on from what Gekko says...
i got a call last year from a fellow livery saying that my horse was covered in blood at the back end. I got there and her white socks were totally red, her tail also and her back end. It turned out that she was bleeding inside her vagina. It was quite a sharp cut. The vet did what was necessary and she recovered quickly.
Had there not been people around, i think i would have thought the worst, but for various reasons, i knew that it must have been a stick or something when she went to lie down or get up. We never found anything but it was impossible that it was anything sinister.

I am not saying that this is what happend in this case, but i think there are some instances, where people have automatiically thought the worst.

Hope the poor mare and foal are ok and it was a one off incident.
 
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