Leestown Passed

KMO_racing · Postby **KMO_racing** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:32 pm

I was just told Leestown the leading sire in LA had an accident & has passed away.

JaradM · Postby **JaradM** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:16 am

What a bad way to go. From what I heard yesterday a deer got into his padock and spooked him. He ran into the fence and sustanid catastrophic injuries. Big blow to the LA breeders.

ageecee · Postby **ageecee** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:12 am

Huge blow...

How can you not have a good fence up with a leading stallion sitting in that pasture? makes no sense.

summerhorse · Postby **summerhorse** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:54 pm

If a panic stricken horse of (what 1200-1300 lbs?) wants to run through a fence there isn't much you can do. Even if the fence might hold (V mesh or vinyl "rails") the posts will probably give. For all I know the fence was made of matchsticks

but just because he ran into it and lost doesn't mean it was poorly constructed. Maybe it was so strong he gave instead? It's a terrible thing however it happened.

JaradM · Postby **JaradM** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:08 pm

From the bloodhorse article it dosent sound like he ran through the fence. J Adcock said none of the fence was broken. No telling...

Sock Monkey · Postby **Sock Monkey** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:13 am

This is horrible news.

I'm so sorry for his connections.

You occassionally hear of a horse spooking and hitting a tree and being killed. Perhaps something similar happened here. I thought Adcock had board fence for his stallions - that's pretty safe fence, but I can see a horse hitting it and being on the losing end of that confrontation. I've seen the tractor hit a post in my board fence and bounce off (don't ask, stuff happens).

Toccet02 · Postby **Toccet02** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:11 am

It was a broken shoulder. How does THAT happen, usually?

skywatcher · Postby **skywatcher** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:02 am

If he managed to hit a post that could easily explain the broken shoulder.

He might not even have hit the fence, if he slipped and fell funny...horses are great and finding the stupidest ways to hurt themselves.

RIP Leestown

Vindicated · Postby **Vindicated** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:05 pm

ageecee wrote:Huge blow...

How can you not have a good fence up with a leading stallion sitting in that pasture? makes no sense.

Ditto on what everyone else said.....
I have seen alot of nice horses get hurt on fences that are as safe as humans can make them......
And alot of not so nice animals live perfectly fine in fences I don't think could hold a 30 year old geriatric....

We really should not judge the incident until we have ALL of the info....
and remember horses (high strung ones in particular) are prone to hurting themselves....What will make them great will also kill them....

Indychase · Postby **Indychase** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:36 pm

I had a riding horse once run straight into a post and snap his neck. There is no way to make a paddock (or a stall, or anywhere) completely accident proof.