Re: Photos/News about Broodmares
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 7:09 pm
Arravale with her '15 Quality Road colt. I love this mare.
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We lost a great mare today, Rich in Spirit. This is our favorite picture of her, at the farm with Leonard Lavin and Hap Proctor as a 2yo filly before shipping to Calder to win the John Franks Juvenile Fillies. She also won the G2 Regret Stakes and G3 Locust Grove at Churchill, and won another stakes race at Tampa as a 5 year old. She was probably our only horse that had won stakes at 2,3,4, and 5. She is the dam of Wishing Gate, winner of the G2 San Clemente and 2nd in the G1 Del Mar Oaks. She had a Gaileo colt 18 days ago, and had colic this morning. Her surgery went well but she died by breaking her tibia in the operating room. Tough day.
How sad for everyone. Bless her heart.Sparrow Castle wrote:Sad FB post from Glen Hill Farm. My condolences to them.We lost a great mare today, Rich in Spirit. This is our favorite picture of her, at the farm with Leonard Lavin and Hap Proctor as a 2yo filly before shipping to Calder to win the John Franks Juvenile Fillies. She also won the G2 Regret Stakes and G3 Locust Grove at Churchill, and won another stakes race at Tampa as a 5 year old. She was probably our only horse that had won stakes at 2,3,4, and 5. She is the dam of Wishing Gate, winner of the G2 San Clemente and 2nd in the G1 Del Mar Oaks. She had a Gaileo colt 18 days ago, and had colic this morning. Her surgery went well but she died by breaking her tibia in the operating room. Tough day.
Edited to add the farm's FB photo of Rich in Spirit with her Galileo colt on March 1.
Galileo/Rich in Spirit colt getting to know his nurse mare. He's doing well:)
That's one expensive paddock! I'd kill to know who other mares in the background were.tachyon wrote:Gentildonna(JPN) has been confirmed in foal to King Kamehameha. (expected date: Feb 4th 2016)
Gentildonna (front) and Verxina (back)
Sad indeed. I think New Bolton is the only place with a recovery pool I ever heard of. Rood and Riddle always brags about their wonderful setup and that they don't need a recovery pool, but I wish they and the other big ones would spring for the extra money for a recovery pool set-up.BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Tragic.
It's just not fair that the mare came through her surgery in good order...and then it all went to hell. My heart goes out to her owners.
I wish that the veterinary community could develop some way to bring a horse out of anesthesia that might prevent these self-inflicted injuries. I know that recovery pools help, but they may not be right for some patients, and I don't think they are available at very many hospitals.
I would think so, but too bad that someone couldn't come up with some type of float system to assist the horse in and out of the pool so that an incision site is not compromised.BaroqueAgain1 wrote:I know recovery pools help horses who have undergone surgeries on their legs, but I wonder if the supporting slings would be a problem for those who have had abdominal surgery, like for colic?
Placing straps under a horse's barrel, which support its weight as it is lifted into the water, would seem to be hard to do without putting harmful pressure/friction on an abdominal incision.
I was surprised to learn the Rood and Riddle didn't have one.Catalina wrote:Sad indeed. I think New Bolton is the only place with a recovery pool I ever heard of. Rood and Riddle always brags about their wonderful setup and that they don't need a recovery pool, but I wish they and the other big ones would spring for the extra money for a recovery pool set-up.BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Tragic.
It's just not fair that the mare came through her surgery in good order...and then it all went to hell. My heart goes out to her owners.
I wish that the veterinary community could develop some way to bring a horse out of anesthesia that might prevent these self-inflicted injuries. I know that recovery pools help, but they may not be right for some patients, and I don't think they are available at very many hospitals.