Filly DOWN in Kentucky Derby

[lizbud]

The vet on call for yesterday's race gave the techical summation of the injuries that EB suffered.

She broke both ankles, on one side the condyle broke and the other she suffered a sesamoid fracture.

The condyle is the end part of a bone and the sesamoids are the group of small bones that make up the ankle. Humans have teh same kind of bones in their legs

Grab your ankle and feel the two bumps that stick out on either side. The break occured in between those bumps on one side and lower down, in the sesamoid bones on the other.

Thanks Richard, this does help explain this injury.

I tend to believe it's genetics & inbreeding that causes many flaws in
bone structure & breeding for speed. I just wish they hadn't pushed her
so hard down the last 1/4 mile ,just to place 2nd and die.