05.13.08
Another eventing horse dies on cross-country course
Surgery Survivor Horse Dies Competing on Cross-Country Course at New Jersey Event
Tragically ironic report on Tigger Too, belonging to David O’Connor (USEF president), perishing May 11 after falling at a water jump in the Jersey Fresh 3-star CCI (cross-country event.) Rider Lauren Kieffer was not injured.
USEA also reports that preliminary necropsy findings on Tigger Too, a seventeen-year-old gelding, showed that he passed away from an acute abdominal aortic rupture. Final necropsy results are pending.
Tigger Too had had three colic sugeries and had much of his colon removed. There is an investigation in progress.
See Peaches’ previous blog by QL Caballo discussing the increasing number of horses and riders killed or seriously injured recently.
The blog carrying this entry, The Jurga Report, also reviews the death of Eight Belles.
