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Originally Posted by J-bo09
A horse is born to run.
The term heart attack, as applied to a horse, is not accurate. You are making it sound like a human heart attack, which it is not. Usually it is related to an vessel breakage or aneurysm. This also occurs out in the middle of fields and increases with the horses age. When it happens, it is terrible, but you make it sound like they are not trained creatures that are doing what they are best at.
Side note: if you are a male in North America, you have a 50/50 chance of going out with a heart attack as well.
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So the heart attack isn't a result of the race? And the horse would have suffered the same fate at the same time out in the pasture?
"Exercise induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH), also known as "bleeding" or a "bleeding attack", refers to the presence of blood in the airways of the lung in association with exercise. EIPH is common in horses undertaking
intense exercise"
-In 2013, a 12-year-old thoroughbred ridden by an outrider collapsed with a burst lung artery and died shortly afterwards, a death atrributed to Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH).