Chapter 3: Lover Boi
It was a mad rush at our house The cup week was only 6 months away and dads horse Lover Boi just hurt himself real bad. He cut his chest down to his fetlock. Some parts of the cut were really deep and dad and the boys are real worried it had got parts of his tendons. He was finding it hard to walk. When the vet came dad got a bit emotional, as the vet couldn't tell the extent of the damage if the tendons had been exposed. If they had he would have to be put down.
Unfortunately they had, Lover Boi was sadly put to rest 3 days later. In the short time the wound had been there the infection was so far advance the antibiotics didn't have a chance. My dad went downhill the boys worked from the sun up to the sun down to train another horse in time.
If you don't know horses than you wouldn't understand how much work goes into training a horse for this kind of racing.
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