Comments | ontd_political: Cable removed after horses drop dead

ms_maree in ontd_political

Cable removed after horses drop dead

Feb 14, 2011 11:48

A section of electricity cable has been removed from the paddock at England's Newbury racecourse where two horses died on Saturday after apparently being electrocuted.

( warning please heed the subject line this is an upsetting article and has picture in source article that may disturb )

animals, uk

Comments 8

fenris_lorsrai February 14 2011, 02:50:42 UTC

You might want to edit the source link to indicate there's a photo of a horse going down there, just as an additional secondary trigger warning.

ms_maree February 14 2011, 02:53:52 UTC

Ooops initially didn't think of it becaue the picture wasn't clear. Will do.

grace_om February 14 2011, 03:56:39 UTC

Poor horses :-(. But damn -- they're lucky they didn't end up with some dead people too. I can't bring myself to check out the source.

kencf0618 February 14 2011, 04:31:34 UTC

It shows a horse in the distance beginning to collapse. I've seen worse images of animal suffering. If I didn't have the context, I would think "That's not good..."

fenris_lorsrai February 14 2011, 05:38:23 UTC

Yeah, its not that bad by itself, but clicked through and wasn't expecting a picture at all. The combo may be a bit much for some people.

notgarystu February 14 2011, 07:25:07 UTC

Christ, that is horrifying.

brewsternorth February 14 2011, 18:06:49 UTC

Agreed. Shaking my head at how it managed to happen.

sashwizzled February 14 2011, 07:55:03 UTC

I'm actually quite horrified they allowed that one race to go on. The horse that ran was found with burn marks in its mouth afterwards according to what I read - how could they not stop this and have them all checked out thoroughly?

Also, that's the clearest picture I've seen of that horse going down, it's actually really chilling when you know exactly what's happening. Ugh, so upsetting.