3 Jockeys Suffered Broken Bones & 2 Horses Dead After Horrific Accident In Hong Kong Race

It's not about cost. It's about the anatomy of a horse. You have 500 pounds walking on tiptoes on a bone as big around as a carrot. It's miserably painful if broken, with very high risk of infection, puncturing skin or blood vessels, internal bleeding and never healing. Rehab exists but is extremely difficult, time-intensive, and expensive and still fails most of the time. Even if you invest so much into rehab it's highly likely the leg will never heal properly or keep re breaking and the horse will have a miserable life

A horse with a broken leg has almost zero chance at a recovery. It’s been tried but always ends up with the horse being destroyed a lot of times there ends up being uncontrollable infections. There was an extremely high value horse a few years ago where they tried. After multiple surgeries, untold pain for the horse, and millions spent it had to be destroyed. They weren’t even thinking of getting it back on the track just using him as a stud. It just doesn’t work for horses.