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What on Earth is going on...two horses mysteriously collapsing and dying in the paddock and others reported as 'wobbling'

2horses dead before the meet even starts, likely caused by underground wires electrocuting them.  :no:

Coincidence? Both horses same owner - adverse effect to a drug of some sort?

Horse racings loss is the glue factory's gain.

Hope the owners sue the pants off Newbury if eletrocution was indeed the case..Real sick incident rip to both horses..

been abandoned now...fecking hell

i was meant to be going there today.
glad things cropped up which meant i didn't go in the end.

I guess it's the metal shoes on the hooves which made the horses very susceptible to an electric cable on the turf but it makes you wonder about the stable-hands and jockeys. A close escape there!

"The most terrifying noise I have heard outside of a cinema" according to Cornelius, Racing correspondent on Five Live, when referring to the noise the electrocuted horse made  :ohmy:

Absolutely horrific. Gutted.

According to Channel 4 Racing the guys who covered the horses in the paddock certainly got electric shocks off the poor animals.  They did run that race and when they got thehorses back to the stables some were reported as having burns in their mouths where the metal bit goes!  Sad day.

Bloody hell re: the burnt mouths! Very odd choice to run the race too.

According to horse experts, the shock a horse can withstand is only one sixth of what a human can withstand.
Anything over that is generally fatal.

Just horrible.

Horrible news

It would behoof them to be more careful in the future, of course.

Bad times.

http://tv.eurosport.ro/horseracing/tv-videos_vid162526.shtml

Sad news....but this made me chuckle.

I read on a racing forum that there were concerns from trainer that the main stand lights kept flickering on and off like disco lights around 1pm.

In horses the electric current in such circumstances travels up the back legs­ and down the front (going through the heart) whereas in­ humans it is up one leg down the other - unless someone­ is holding hands in which case it could be equally fatal­ as through the heart.

Why up the back legs rather than the front? Do horses have a dipole moment?

Don't blind me with science  :( I had to look that up.

Sorry. I'm bored. Overeducated and underemployed. Nothing better to do than drink wine and post on here it what is approaching the small hours.

Do you like my new avatar? Now he'd have been just fine at Newbury

Looks like the front and back of a panto horse have got very cosy.

 :D

 Would like to be on the booze myself tonight, but I can't even stretch to Tescos cider, you're in the lap of luxury by comparison, drinking your wine! Oh well, chicken kiev on its way and my first bath in four days. Skint skint skint  :no:

Chicken Kiev just after midnight? You're either in a different time zone or work shifts?

Bournemouth time. I've got so skint lately i've had to wait until my economy 7 kicks in at 11pm before I power up the oven for my main meal of the day!