The 2011 Danish warmblood licensing champion ERA Dancing Hit has broken his leg in a lunging accident on Monday 6 February 2012. The rising 4-year black stallion made a playful buck on the lunge line and fractured his pastern upon landing.
The stallion was calmed and received pain relief before being transported to Dr. Werner Jahn's equine clinic in Bargteheide, Germany, for an operation. The leg was broken in three places and the surgeon fixed the bone with eight screws.
For his recovery Dancing Hit will need to stay in a sling for six weeks to relieve the leg. The sling is a harness which will enable the horse to move around and even lie down but without putting extra weight on the broken leg.
Though the operation was successful Dancing Hit (by UNO Don Diego x Sandro Hit x Caprilli) will never be able to become a competition horse. The licensing champion and performance test winner is bred by Stuteri ERA and owned by Bente and Jørgen Steen Jensen of the Højagergaard stallion station.
"It's the worst thing I have experienced in the 40 years I run a stallion station," a distraught Jørgen Steen Jensen told the Danish magazine Ridehesten. "That it happened to a stallion of such a quality is hard."
Source & Photos © Ridehesten.com
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