This is definitely Animal Cruelty!!

@@jamanne2504 OMG no it's not! Read the description of the video. The bottom was very sticky. Two guys risked their lives and went into the water. A vet was there (the woman in white top and jeans) and was right there assessing the horse's condition. She gave him meds administered on the left side of his neck and made sure his legs got wrapped to protect them. They got him into the equine ambulance as fast as they could while giving him time to catch his breath.

No, the horse was in medical distress with a condition called “tying up “ which is a medical emergency. That’s why it staggered and had trouble walking. The vet recognized this immediately and pulled blood work right away to know the severity of the condition, which is good because it was pretty severe

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I agree, it must have been extremely difficult for this horse to pull his feet out of the thick mud and much over and over. I actually found an article about this horse years later that explained everything that happened. According to the article the horse "Shipping News" was slightly injured from the incident in this video (also had collapsed of a heat stroke mins prior). So he was rehabbed and re-homed by a Tampa Bay off track thoroughbred rescue. Yay! No more racing or jumping! And is now a regular horse.

@@Way2Spirited It sure looked like it was going to collapse. What a nightmare.

I worked with race horses for years and was lucky enough to spend a meet at Tampa Bay Downs. Everyone involved saved this horses life. She was absolutely tying up from all strain of the deep mud. Tying up is dangerous for horses its like having uncontrollable muscle contrations all over your body very painful. The vet was right there to give the correct medw to counteract it.

@@Way2Spirited Yep....I know. I got stuck in mud like that going somewhere I shouldn't have gone. This horse is very lucky to have their help.

@@Menace-et3jkou think the dose of Lasix prior to this in that extreme heat 🥵 was worth it , looks like between dehydration, extreme heat, and electrolyte imbalanced was causing significant effects , horse wasn’t just tying up because of the mud, her body was suffering from serious Deficiency from diuretics, heat and exhaustion. She was probably minutes away from cardiac arrest and full collapse, she wasn’t even fighting the drowning as her nose dipped under the water . I’ve been around horses my whole life and work in equine medicine, that horse was trying to flee from the feeling of death starting to take over 😢

I agree completely!! WOW

Yes, utter dolts, you'd think they have some creative common sense between them, but apparently not!

@@eulises...1664 Waste your time when most people don't even know what you say.

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I agree 1000% very well said. Poor beautiful horse being abused while being rescued. They were to harshed and rough man handly the poor horse that needs help. 😭💔

Of course there's something you can do. You can report shit you see that is abusive. If EVERYONE ignores it, it'll never stop or even be known about by the officials or the public.

+Way2Spirited You are right. Also a horse that was going to "just cool off" does not need to be tranquilized after if that's the case. Something else is going on here.

+Christena R Well, racehorses don't just wander loose around the track wearing not even a halter, my guess would be he managed to snap his halter or bridle and went for a run, obviously not the brightest bulb, he runs straight into the drainage like he thinks it is solid ground. After that he gets a lot of water in his ears, causing significant discomfort and throwing off his balance, probably the reason they sedate him since he freezes up once they fish him out.

horse people know horse behaviour.

Exactly. This horse was in flight mode fell in the water and got more disorientated. Unstable ground scars the horse more. This horse is exhausted and disorientated. Just Stupidity trying to force this horse to walk. Once again the horse suffers in racing. So sad. All these idiots applying pressure to the horse giving him no release. They should of used the other horse as a draw instead of running about forcing the horse to go further away .

He was tying up from being overheated and that's why she gave the shot, it can kill a horse.

so glad that he's ok.

That is nice to know 😄

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These guys don't know anything about horse's!!!!! Why were they trying to make her-him walk?? And why were they so afraid to get wet. I've been around horse's all my life and this was handled all wrong.

So glad to hear that

Oh shit yah I was thinking the same thing. I think the horse would have come out a lot faster had it not been surrounded by people up on the bank.

One horse, two different camera angles

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They didn't help ther the problem. Runing at him that way.

Yep

This she was being carcastic

Agree, summer racing in Florida sucks anyway, they should just stop doing it

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This was run in February

+Cat Lover This comment is probably best posted on a video of a young horse breaking down, here it just seems irrelevant

No scientific evidence supports your claim. In fact, every recent study concluded that training and racing a horse as a 2 year old reduces injuries, both severe and non-severe througout their career. But I guess facts are optional with you and you want to make claims based on your own emotion.

Bone has to be used to keep remodeling more bone.

And how many die in backyard pastures every day?

Cheyann Bissell beast? They aren’t beasts

I agree.

You would never se guys in just shorts or wife beater shirts at a million dollar horse event of any kind

Finally one of the cowards braved the waist deep water!!!!

Exactly, I'm sittin here watching sayin where's my rope damnit? Unreal, poor baby!

Florida retards.

Agree

So true.

Exactly! Did you see the person with a lasso eat soon after the horse entered the pond? Why didn't he just throw the rope and that would have helped keep the horse stable and from moving (this going deeper into the muck) and he/she would have been retrieved from the pond more expeditiously. 👍

It's like no one wants to get wet and get their white pants dirty

Too much mud and silt in there!

Exhausted!

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Bit of a tosser the horse didnt deserve getting him as a "rider"

They fidnt st first!

There used to be an alligator that lived in there, he would cross the track sometimes. I don't know what happened to him.

I was thinking that too.

@@vickydamota6186 Probably scared off, they really are afraid of people and noise. I used to be on I 275 headed to work and there would be an alligator holding up traffic to cross the road.

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Anyone who goes into that pond is going to be at serious risk of injury from flailing feet.

If there is no gator it's because the track clears that regularly.

@@jamihede4440 thank you. My thought exactly.

@@jamihede4440 you are absolutely correct.

No one at all is a " cowboy " when you're talking about Race horses! In fact that's a nasty word to them!.. however I agree it would have been nice to throw a loop on it. Just sayin

The left diagonal was wrap the first time he came out of the water.

I agree, I can't believe how inept these morons were.

Wow.....what a bunch of cowboys ovisly got no fuckn horse sence....😤

That's what I was thinking. Can't anybody throw a rope?

would rather take his chance with some alligators

Bingo, humans did this to that horse...they can not talk, only do body language...and this is very obvious, such bad treatment all the way around....by the handlers...horse's don't lie, humans do....

I saw he went away from men instead of toward them. Men= abuse. Horse was smart

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bellasue02 Not really. They can't get any other horses into the water, or it will just chew up the bottom and the banks more. And getting more people in the water will just confuse the horse more. Moving quickly - same. One has to move very slowly, see how the horse is reacting, and make no big moves. And the horse actually is in extremely good physical condition. While swimming and pulling its legs out of the mud for 20 minutes is hard work and the horse is clearly very tired, he's not going to die. As to other comments, a horse with heat stroke would be flat on its back....no. Horses can get varying degrees of heat illness, just like humans. But horses are also very good at dealing with heat when they are this fit an healthy. As for a guy smoking, I guess you have never realized that many people do still smoke...and that they will often take a cigarette when they need to sit there quietly and sort a situation out. That was definitely needed here. The key is to stand still, think, and not lose one's head. These guys were calm and did a good job. You ignored the guys who were petting the horse and handling this PERFECTLY, which means calmly, in favor of trying to make something out of the guy smoking a cigarette. Smokers by the way are not permitted to smoke in the barn or near storage for hay or other flammables. My guess is that the horse got loose - maybe in the stable since he has no saddle on(though is tack may have been removed earlier - horses have been known to mistake the inside rail for an obstacle or jump the inside rail because something else startled them). Horses do inexplicable things when they are loose. That's just how it is. They do very odd things. Jumping in a pond would be one of the more tame things horses have done when they get loose, but with a large heavy animal, that can be very, very dangerous. They basically just don't know where they are going. They see some other horses and they have an instinct to go toward those horses. Some tracks have large tv screens that have confused horses. One tries very hard to not have them get loose. And there are gates and barriers at the track to prevent loose horses from getting out on the track. So not sure what happened here. 'Monitoring' him is something of an exaggeration. You 'monitor' a horse with a stethoscope, thermometer to check his heart rate and temperature. You can only observe the horse from the bank in this situation. But an experienced horse person would see signs of the horse becoming more tired or becoming passive. Use the pond dredger? Are you kidding? It's very important to not put any additional traction or pressure on the horse's legs, or startle him with unfamiliar equipment. The best way to handle it is quietly, slowly, constantly observing how the horse is reacting, and being very, very calm. The horse came out with no serious injuries, though trying to pull its legs out of the mud and struggling could mean its racing career is ended, which it may have been, since it went to the CANTER organization for a new home. Horse was not seriously injured, no humans were injured in the rescue attempt, it ended a lot better than it could have.

SL Canaday Jesus! Do you really need to comment on *every other comment*? Opinionated much?

That horse was clearly exhausted. Absolutely someone should of went in and helped, it's clear he was having difficulty keeping his head up. He wanted to drop his head and breath but could not because of the water level. I'm surprised he didn't aspirate the water into his lungs and get pneumonia, if the truth was being told.

@@pclmnts83 agree

Congrats your the only other person to recognize what actually happened to the horse

I can't believe the amount of people who own horses that don't know how to spot this when it is happening or what needs to be done to save a horses life.Horse owners need to know this.It could be life threatening real quick.

He wasn’t scared he was in medical distress. They didn’t want to get hurt extracting her

It happens.

@@NancyR3454 It happens??

You are obviously not an equestrian nor do you know the species Equis. Man is not prey to domesticated equines. I would explain being a long term equestrian and study of the equine yet I don't feel it would do a damn bit of good to try to educate the ignorant.

@@lindareid3024 if you reread, I do believe they meant HORSES, Equines are prey animals not Man. But as you were so busy up on your soapbox, I suppose you missed that, additionally I do believe you mean Equus a subspecies of the family Equidae.. ah but as you said no need wasting time on the ignorant. 🙄🙄

I think this horse got loose and ran away, not unusual. It ran into the pond thinking it was a puddle and not a steep sided trench filled with muddy water. It was an extremely dangerous situation and the grooms and others handled it just fine imo.

He was cluess.

Exactly! Already collapsed from the heat and cooled down. Then they get it out to race and it goes 6 furlongs and goes through three fences to get to the pond. Broken fetlock. Lucky the owner took good care of him afterwards and he now is having a nice retirement.

I totally agree. And on top of that it looks like they sedated him when he got him back Trackside

Idiots around the horse

In 35 years I've never ever seen a horse jump in water like this. They avoid water at all costs normally.

Why can't they get him looks like many chances? I don't understand what's taking say long.

Why? Blood pressure drop?

@@TheGreenSweater if it goes down and is too exhausted to get back up it could potentially die. Horses aren't built to be able to lay down for long periods of time, they're so heavy that they can prevent blood flow to certain parts of their body if down for too long. This horse also had a leg injury so if it laid down it wouldn't have the leg support to be able to get itself back up.

Guy in his underwear was the owner who did not put the horse down, but rehabbed him and he lives in retirement about 35 miles from that track.

@@Maya-bu2rf I'm glad the owner helped the horse and didn't put it down. A lot of race horse owners wouldn't physically get on the track to help their horse and a lot of them put their horses down

Jack Ollie4 A horse with Heatstroke does not even know their own name. Have you ever been to Florida? I have, it is hot! I felt like jumping in the pool every day!

Broken fetlock, owner who took his pants off to go in after the horse did not put it down like a lot of people owning race horses do. Raced 6 furlongs and collapsed. They cooled it down and you see what happened after that. Horse is saying "I told you it was too damned hot and this is the only way I can let you know". Florida in February is variable. It used to be our coldest, wettest month. In later years it has changed. This was ten years ago so it should have been cooler. But, any day in any month can be hot. Around that time there were ten days in a row in January that the weather was really hot. Over 85 degrees ten days in a row in February....The horse is now rehabilitated and is owned by a woman in Pinellas Park FL and her 2 year old rides him with help.

This is a horse track not a duck pond lose the mud pond.

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Actually a horse being hot and sweaty and going into cold water could have sent him into shock.

He was hurt and luckily the owner (the one who went in wearing his underwear) rehabbed him and he lives a nice retired life. He broke what we would consider an ankle.

@@Maya-bu2rf rehabbed or in a can?

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No if they are smart,have some one put a couple x carrots at the end x a pole put them close to the horse's nose and he will come out of the pond like baby.rite.he @@pieterburger4188

They were staying calm so as not to panic the horse. And going into a dee muddy pond with a loose horse requires patience and absolute calm. Imagine being next to the horse and having it suddenly panic. You could get pulverized by thrashing hooves because you wouldn’t be able to get away. Then you’d really have a mess.