Olympic horse found dead

[SKY]

omg that is disgusting how someone could do something like that.
when i bought my 1st pony after a few months someone cut his tail off just below bone. pure jealous and i was disgusted but found out who it was few years back and realised something was wrong with them to do something like that, i was only 12 saved money for years bought him for £125 he was 12.2hhs and amazing pony only sold cheap as wee girl was afriad to ride, so they wanted quick sale, i learned to ride on him, but all children in my neighbourhood would come over and we would give them rides, i shared them with them. so there should have not been any jealous anyway it was a man who cut the tail one night him and his mates chased pony round field i know this as he would never come to anyone else but me, not even my parents or friends so they had to have chased him, got him and cut hair of just below bone. we where disgusted, but thank god thats all they done to him. my brothers found this out few years ago in pub, i am 28 now and i just think small minded people. but to do that was bad but to hurt or kill a horse that is disturbing.

 

[lhotse]

A horse on our yard suffered a very similar sounding injury last year. A very deep cut extending from the front of the leg to behind the girth. It was almost like someone had tried to cut it's front leg off, so deep that the muscle underneath was cut too. However, this happened in a field overlooked by several houses, and we believe that the injury was actually self inflicted by the horse tripping over whilst running around and landing on the back part of it's own shoe, whilst the skin and muscles were stretched. I have also seen a similar injury caused by a stud after a fall crosscountry. The horse at out yard made a full recovery, but it could have been different if she had severed an artery.