Hope for Injured Stallions and the Story of R Cor Ray
By Mary Daniels as told by Ken Borden Jr.
Little Bit Farm's R Cor Ray by Raymeister.
It was one of those heart-chilling moments when you want to stop time and reverse it to how things were just before it happened: a promising
young horse, the result of a carefully planned breeding, takes one wrong step and its future is altered, perhaps even done for.
It doesn’t happen only to Thoroughbreds on the track. It happens as well to Warmbloods, as distinguished breeder Ken Borden Jr. of Little Bit Farm in Wilmington, IL can testify.
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On top of it, “I saw it happen,”he says, to what without doubt he consid- ers his best stallion to date, R Cor Ray, by Raymeister out of Condina, by Cor de la Bryere, a jumping sire legend, and one of Germany’s Jahrhunderthengste or once-in-a-hundred-year stallions, of which there are merely 23.
When he was a yearling, R Cor Ray jumped over a pasture gate. No other horses were in the pasture with him. He just wanted to get out to the other side to join the other horses being brought in from daily turnout. “He cleared the five-foot gate with no trouble, but unfortunately he land- ed awkwardly on the opposite side,” says Borden.
“Oh my God,”was his immediate reaction. ”I saw him land and he jerked his head, thereby injuring his neck. The very next day he was dead lame in one hind leg. He appeared to have developed neurological symptoms overnight,”he adds.
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