what do you make of the horse deaths at newby today?

[joko]

they were apparently electrocuted..but already some are saying rivals with tasers are responsible...


cheers

[mollykins]

suspicious, I saw it on the bbc news. How would they have done it though when they were on the track when it happened?

[NazNomad]

"What Do You Make Of The Horse Deaths At Newby Today?"

Steaks, I'm serious.

[Mamyalynne]

Newbury for anyone trying to find the story (me)

[birdie1971]

From what I've read, they were in the paddock and not on the race track itself. They were parading them prior to the race when the event occurred.

Very weird indeed.

[mollykins]

Good job that weren't in the jokes section naz else you'd get a few *groan* s

[sara3]

was it on tv?

[NazNomad]

I don't care where it is, that's what I'd make from a deceased horse, simple as that.

[NazNomad]

@molly

[Chaffinch]

This really upset me, news items are saying that it may be an electric cable under the parade ring. Race horses ware aluminium shoes, and are more suseptable to electric shock than humans.Truly awful and my heart goes out tho the owner, trainers and jockeys. I've never seen anything like it in my life.

[237SJ]

I reckon someone had drilled into the ground for some reason and exposed some kind of electrical cable making the ground live. Maybe the horses metal shoes carried the electrical current up through them.

[joeluke]

Out of order comment there naznomad

Would you have said the same if you were the owner of one of the dead horses?

[NazNomad]

Yes

[wheaten]

They weren't on the track, I have been to races at Newbury (and elsewhere) and the horses are led from their stables to a parade ring before going to the start of the race course. As these races were being televised, and the ground was wet, it may be that an unplugged, or faulty, cable was responsible.

[DTCwordfan]

Shocking, that's all that can be said.

[madmaggot]

A radio reporter said that the one horse screamed out and it was worse than anything he has ever heard outside of a horror film!
Surely if there was electrical current flowing that strongly it would have at least been felt by the people who were all around and especially the grooms/jockeys who were holding the reins?

[Chaffinch]

Mad, the horses did not scream out, and jockeys, grooms etc wear boots with rubber soles. The vets who examined the horses, said that there was a "strange" feeling when the horses were touched.

[NazNomad]

No, because of the potential difference between their front & back legs (because their front and back legs are so far apart).

<vaguely remembered from my earth-spike training, lol>

[NazNomad]

... plus, they aren't insulated.

[bibblebub]

It was in the parade ring. During the time since the last meeting at Newbury they have used one of devices for drilling a water drainage tunnel, and somebody connected with the course reckons that it might have cut through a power cable.

[Chaffinch]

And they have a metal bit in their mouths, metal shoes and stirup irons and metal buckles everywhere