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    LETTERS

    Jun 22, 2018 4 minutes

    Danger in the trailer

    After reading “Butt-Bar Hazard” (Hands On, EQUUS 489), I wanted to share our butt-bar horror story. We had just returned from a show with our two-horse trailer, and we had unloaded one horse and were just in the processing of releasing the other when someone let off a gunshot nearby. The horse panicked and came out under the butt bar.

    He skinned all of the hair off his spine all the way up to his withers. I thought he had broken his back. Thank God he hadn’t, but it took months to heal. Fortunately, he did recover completely.

    Your suggestion to attach a chain to prevent accidents like this is a good idea.

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