Save Horse
January 27, 2006 
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Why can't they save horses with broken bones?
I would think veterinary medicine is advanced enough to save a horse with one or even two broken legs. Why not?
They sometimes can, and considering the incalculable value of Eight Belles as a brood mare (after being only about the third girl to win the Derby in 134 years), no doubt the owners would have spent anything to save her if it was humanely possible.
Many broken bones in horses can be repaired, at least enough for the horse to live a long, happy life. I have horse who broke a cannon bone, it was fixed nicely, and that was over twenty years ago. Horses have even been fitted with artificial legs.
However, with TWO ankles involved, and one of them being a particularly nasty compound fracture with the skin broken, the dirt in that wound almost guarantees an infection, which makes treatment immensely more difficult, painful, and far less likely to succeed.
A really mercenary owner, thinking only of profits, might have opted to try some heroic veterinary adventure that would have been extremely hard on the horse -- and probably would have only prolonged her pain.
Putting her down was unavoidable, and the only right thing to do in this case.
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