Teddy O'Connor put down

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Very sad news, he was a fantastic pony. One in a million. I was wandering if he may get an Olympic call up seeing as I had lunch with the team trainer yesterday and he mentioned him.....

Name drop? Me?!

Poor Karen, they had an brill partnership

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The short list was named last week, including Teddy
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http://useventing.com/competitions.php?section=fei&id=1523
 
I cant believe this, this is really unexpected..
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RIP Teddy and thoughts to Karen and all those connected.....
 
I was just telling my friends about this wonderful little pony the other day.

So so sad.

RIP Teddy

My thoughts to everyone who knew him
 
Shocked.

I wonder what happened.

He was an amazing pony, such a star. And New York Skyline too. What a sad day.
 
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Shocked.

I wonder what happened.

He was an amazing pony, such a star. And New York Skyline too. What a sad day.

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According to the Eventing e-mail discussion group he was hacking out with another horse from the yard and got a bit lively so the rider decided to dismount and lead him home. On the way back something frightened him, he spooked, bolted and slipped running back to the barn. He cut all of the tendons and ligaments in a hind leg. The vet, Dr. Kent Allen was there immediately but determined that the injury was catastrophic and he was euthanized as a result :-(.
 
Bit more from the USA, this time from TheHorse.com quoting the evt who attended him:

Karen and David (O'Connor) would have done anything to let this little guy have a shot," said Kent Allen, DVM, one of the three veterinarians who attended Theodore O'Connor following the gelding's catastrophic injury this morning and a long-time friend and veterinarian for Team O'Connor. "The right thing to do was euthanize him."

Allen has spent decades attending top-level event horses at home at Virginia Equine Imaging near Middleburg, Va., and he has served at every major equine three-day event in the world. He said Teddy's accident was "a freak thing.

"He spooked at something while being ridden and bolted," described Allen. "The rider came off and the horse ran toward the barn. He got into a freak accident and slid into the side of the barn and lacerated his right hind leg about 4 inches above the fetlock on the back of the leg. It looked like a knife cut it; he severed the superficial and deep digital flexor tendons, ligaments, cut both branches of the arterial blood supply, and nerves.


"My experience with injuries like this are that the chances of reattaching the vascular supply and nerve supply and reattaching the tendons and ligaments is almost zero," said Allen. "The horse was remarkably calm and let me examine him completely.
"Realistically, there was nothing we could do," he concluded.

Allen said even if they had tried something "terribly heroic, it's not usually a good outcome and the horses die a nasty death a week later."

He said there were two other veterinarians in attendance, and all concurred on the decision of euthanasia.

"Even if there has been a 10% chance of us being successful to recover him (from surgery) ... but with the nature of the injury, that wasn't going to happen," said Al

"He was tremendously healthy and had done great at competitions in the spring and was looking forward to the Olympics," said Allen of Teddy. "He was even-tempered and a good guy to work on or with."

Allen said Karen and David were taking this hard, but, "They never have shirked from doing the right thing. The right thing to do was euthanize the horse."
 
OMG that's so sad
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I was really looking forward to seeing him at the Olympics too. He was just so amazing to watch, like bionic pony on springs.
 
What a terrible loss
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RIP Teddy. Thoughts to all connected to him, they must be devastated, he was such a special little man
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