St. Nicholas Abbey

[Echo Bravo]

The horse is dead and out of pain, but hopefully some good has come out of this for the equines of this world, hopefully the vets have learnt a lot from his situation and not just un named horse that went through the same problem for the sake of science and will have helped many horses/ponies in the future.

 

[Honeylight]

I wish the outcome had been better, it must be frustrating as well as very sad for those working to save him, when the laminitis appeared to be receding. It was a very bad injury to start with & all the complications that followed, did people see the X Ray after pinning? It looked like a Christmas tree. I imagine this just wasn't any old colic but had been brought on by the lack of movement & trauma. A real pity that he was injured in the first place.
As to the financial side of things, someone on here made an interesting point about his stud value. Coolmore do seem to be marketing stallions with his profile for the National Hunt sphere. There are plenty of sons of Montjeu at stud & he wasn't from an especially sparkling female line. Still he was a tough talented horse & a loss to breeding even if it was to eventually be of NH horses.

 

[Koen]

The horse is dead and out of pain, but hopefully some good has come out of this for the equines of this world, hopefully the vets have learnt a lot from his situation and not just un named horse that went through the same problem for the sake of science

....and the racing industry, and all the unamed horses destroyed for the sake of the gaming industry...a public awarness at the very least?

.........and will have helped many horses/ponies in the future.

Yes

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

....and the racing industry, and all the unamed horses destroyed for the sake of the gaming industry...a public awarness at the very least?



Yes

All the horses have names and they are not destroyed for the sake of the gaming industry, you seem determined to use any excuse to post on here, this is not about you.

 

[tristar]

in an article in this weeks irish field trainer of st nicholas abbey aiden o'brien said' he was always special, he was exceptional really' and his jockey joseph o'brien who rode him to 4 group one wins said 'he was a horse i'll not forget, his win in dubai was poss his best performance but from my point of eiw winning on him at the breeders cup was ery special' ' keyboard playing up)