Horse down

[Ashy]

Apparently a horse dropped dead during the Notting Hill Carnival, his name was Sandown and he will be given a post mortem to determine the cause of death unlike a lot of people, but there we are. If you see any information on the cause of death please post it here because I got electrocution in the sweep.

[Alex]

Probably too bloody hot for the poor thing.

[Ashy]

Possibly heat stroke or extreme dehydration, but it wasn't all that hot and I assume that mounted police water their horses. Poor thing, not much of a life.

[Jacqueline]

Poor horse, as others have said it wasn't boiling hot, I would rule out dehydration I think, my cousin was a mounted policeman in the 1950's he loved his horse and looked after it well. I hope they will find out the cause of his death. 

Sorry but that horrible carnival is no place to take an animal even a trained police horse, a tank maybe, it's always trouble, people are stabbed and die, it's out of hand,  the locals have to board everything up, just dreadful, I wouldn't go within 100 miles of it.

[Ashy]

Horses originally came from far hotter countries than ours. however we must await the vet's opinion. They might find some natural defect which was just waiting to happen, poisoning - that's possible, electrocution through the hooves is possible and is often misunderstood by riders, sadly.