Horse falls off trailer

Georgerz · Postby **Georgerz** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:41 am

From the Thoroughbred Times:

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nation ... diana.aspx

How can the driver not know?

karenkarenn · Postby **karenkarenn** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:35 am

There is an ad similar to this one in Reno, inquiring about a gelding that came off a trailer and to their house. What happened is- the windows where down and the trailers door ( back) wasn't shut all the way. They claimed that he bumped it, turned around, broke the lead rope and off he went. Atleast thats why they said, but they still have the gelding, they said that he has a tatoo and no one wants to come forward to claim the horse.
The Jc doesn't have the id of the currenty owner that lost the horse.

ratherrapid · Postby **ratherrapid** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:43 pm

Real easy. Unless the traffic sees something and somebody drives up beside you waiving their arms for ur attention, there's a lot that goes on back there that you worry about, and can miss. That's what makes driving a load of horses so stressful. I had one fall over in the trailer one time laying on its back on the floor with a rear hoof caught in the trailer bars. Another horse standing over him front legs one side rear legs the other. unable to release the hoof. unbelievable luck that first place I stopped the old man had an electric metal saw. would never have seen it but for the lady that drove up beside me pointing. She saw the hoof caught in the bars. Likely everybody that drives horses over time has some stories!

Shammy Davis · Postby **Shammy Davis** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:33 pm

I remember many years back at a hunt meeting, when a young married couple had loaded their two horses in the trailer and actually forgot to close the back doors. (Both had imbibed a little too much of the tail-gating spirits) They just got in their truck and drove off with the two back trailer doors swinging in the breeze. Fortunately, a number of folks saw what was happening and started to scream for them to stop. It would not been too far down the road, if they continued, that the horses would have back themselves out of the trailer and on to the road. Fortunately, the booze had not effected their hearing, so castrophe was adverted.

I've seen a number of occasions, like Ratherrapid refers, when horses have gotten over the retaining bars or have gotten their legs caught in hay bags that were hung to low.

Bast · Postby **Bast** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 5:02 pm

I had an engine fire during a horse hauling adventure, with two mares in the trailer. It's always something.

oleos93 · Postby **oleos93** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 8:43 am

What was the name of that famous QH that died in a trailer because the driver pulled off the main drag and died (heart attack I think) and then the horse died of dehydration as no one knew what happened to them.

Took weeks to find them.

Sunday Silence · Postby **Sunday Silence** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:26 pm

I remember when Looie Capote burned to death in a trailer accident. It still haunts me to this day.

madelyn · Postby **madelyn** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:41 am

There was just recently a group of horses burned in a trailer. The driver was rolling down the road with no idea the trailer was on fire. It was attributed to a hot cigarette butt flying in through the open side vent and igniting the hay/straw in the center.