At the horse barn I volunteer at one of the foals was goofing around too close to the hay rack in their pasture and she somehow got her head stuck in between the bars of the hay rack (because of the halter she was wearing we assumed) and she ripped her jaw open pretty good. She is ok but the vet is unsure if she can ever have a bit in her mouth because of the injury. She's now a lovely 1 year old thoroughbred (brat )with a rather large scar on her mouth. We also had an accident with another thoroughbred mare, a halter and a hay rack. I hate hay racks even more then I hate halters but they insist on using them for some reason! This mare came from a severly abusive breeding facility and she was very flighty to begin with. They had to always keep a halter on her because she simply could not be caught, she was terrified of people because she was severely abused. Anyway, she must have spooked at something, kicked the hay rack, it tipped over and then she must have bent down to examine it and her halter caught on to the hay rack and she spooked and took off, taking the huge hay rack with her. She ended up getting her halter broken, as well as her leg. She had to be put to sleep the next day when we found her.

That was very heartbreaking. I was the first one to find her, she was still walking but she was in terrible pain and her leg was cut so bad that you could see the broken bone sticking out. I don't like keeping halters on, and I like hay racks even less than that!