Horrible Accident at Yard *Update*
Our YO has a farm sale each year of all the youngsters he has bought in and tuned out to grow. As he has around 180 they dont get handled any more than they were when the came.
Its in the yard right next to ours so things overflow onto ours. We always spend the weekend up there to keep an eye on our horses.
They usually wait till the sale is over and load everthing then.
Yesterday a lady bought 3 youngsters and tried to load them while the sale was going on, she eventually brought them round to our yard and managed to get them in. But not before she had tried to load them outside the sale yard, right next to the food caravan and seating.
They were rearing and throwing themselves around, in the middle of this crowd where people were sitting and eating and using the gate in and out of the sale yard.
I didn't actually see what happened as I was on guard in our yard but someone came looking for the nurses who keep horses with ours.
A poor old man of 82 was lying on the ground with open fractures to his arm and leg, his bones were sticking out. Our nurse stayed looking after him until the ambulance arrived and said it didn't look good. He will need surgery and it will be very difficult to get him mobile again with breaks to his arm and legs at his age.
Hoping he going to be OK, we will ring this morning to find out how he is.
Just a reminder really of what happens when people have no patience or consideration for other people. The people who buy at these sales are experienced horse dealers not novices.
Our YO has a farm sale each year of all the youngsters he has bought in and tuned out to grow. As he has around 180 they dont get handled any more than they were when the came.
Its in the yard right next to ours so things overflow onto ours. We always spend the weekend up there to keep an eye on our horses.
They usually wait till the sale is over and load everthing then.
Yesterday a lady bought 3 youngsters and tried to load them while the sale was going on, she eventually brought them round to our yard and managed to get them in. But not before she had tried to load them outside the sale yard, right next to the food caravan and seating.
They were rearing and throwing themselves around, in the middle of this crowd where people were sitting and eating and using the gate in and out of the sale yard.
I didn't actually see what happened as I was on guard in our yard but someone came looking for the nurses who keep horses with ours.
A poor old man of 82 was lying on the ground with open fractures to his arm and leg, his bones were sticking out. Our nurse stayed looking after him until the ambulance arrived and said it didn't look good. He will need surgery and it will be very difficult to get him mobile again with breaks to his arm and legs at his age.
Hoping he going to be OK, we will ring this morning to find out how he is.
Just a reminder really of what happens when people have no patience or consideration for other people. The people who buy at these sales are experienced horse dealers not novices.
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Best wishes to the old man, hope he recovers ok.
