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12-02-2011, 01:41 PM
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A bit of a mystery. How could these horses have died (and others been affected) without any effects on humans? BBC Sport - Horse Racing - Two horses die before Newbury calls off meeting 
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12-02-2011, 01:55 PM
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I'm sure an investigation will reveal the causes. I heard that there could have been a major fault with an electic cable beneath the parade ring. With horses all wearing metal shoes perhaps that could have been a factor?
Very sad.
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12-02-2011, 07:33 PM
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It looks like electrocution. According to the BBC report Horses are much more sensitive to electricity than Humans. So a faulty underground cable, along with metal shoes, is about as bad as luck can get for a Horse. |
12-02-2011, 07:50 PM
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What a horrendous way for these horses to die. 
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12-02-2011, 08:02 PM
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I've heard of it happening to a dog when cables under a pavement were live, very sad , what a waste. |
12-02-2011, 08:08 PM
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I was watching the gee gees today at Newbury and saw this. Very peculiar and indeed very sad.
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12-02-2011, 08:45 PM
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A lot of the grooms wear rubber soled boots and shoes, so wouldn't have felt anything. One of the news reports said that the headcollar on one of the dead horses showed scorch marks, which obviously goes along with electric shock.
Its incredibly sad for the horses, but hopefully mercifully quick. I just wonder what would have happened had a punter stuck a folded umbrella or a shooting stick in the ground nearby. Could have been fatal for them too. |
12-02-2011, 09:31 PM
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Could be down to the distance between their front and back legs.
It happens to cattle when lightning strikes the ground. A voltage gradient is created. If (say) the gradient is 25 Volts per foot, then a person with their feet 2ft apart would get 50 Volts, which would probably only tingle. A horse with their front legs separated from their back ones by (say) 6ft would get 150 Volts, which could prove lethal. The other factor would be that the current path in a human would travel up one leg and down the other, avoiding the heart, whereas the heart would be in the current path on a horse. I may be this sort of process that killed the horses.
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13-02-2011, 04:58 PM
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I was deeply saddened when my daughter told me about it Marion
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13-02-2011, 05:53 PM
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Beautiful animals so sad! | | | |
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