I’m guessing he didn’t blame the horse and knew it was an accident. Not an easy thing.
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I disagree when you’re training
300-400 horses at a time, your experience teaches you that
Horses do not set out to hurt people . Freak accidents happen
People also make mistakes.
Just horses being horses
It’s a risk of the day to day business
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That is a rather callous thing to say.
It’s more likely that Lukas didn’t blame the horse for what was 100% an accident
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It’s the ability to forgive. Some have it, some don’t.
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The horse had no idea what it was doing.
The horse was behaving instinctively. It is a horse’s instinct to run down a predator in its way. This is why a loose crazy running horse is very dangerous to people. The horse is not making any rational decisions, it is just reacting on instinct.
Jeff Lukas did the one thing that no human should ever do, but he did it with every good intention. He tried to catch a runaway horse by stepping in the way of it.
The instant he did that, there was an extremely high likelihood that what happened, would happen.
Blaming the horse is like blaming a tractor that slipped out of gear and ran over someone. The tractor had no conscious intention of doing harm. It was just doing what it is built to do. Same with a runaway horse.
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Boots backwards actually dates back to battlefield practices. If a high officer was killed on the field, men would put his boots in backwards and send the horse loose back to stables/base camp. Horse would automatically head to where he was fed and safety. When the horse arrived, it was a message in those days lacking modern communication. The people at base/HQ would know officer whoever had been killed out in the battle.
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5 of Lukas’s horses are going through FT HORA Sale this month. Being dispersed as part of his estate. Mulholland is handling the horses for the sale
Thanks for the heads up.
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Hope the stable pony gets a good home. I guess he will still have a job.
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I have not read the listing, but it makes me sad to think that the stable pony will carry on without his person.
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Oh, the pony won’t be in the sale of course, and I guess whoever takes over as trainer, or an assistant, may use him. I think good stable ponies are quite valuable.
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None of his stable ponies are in the sale.
They are hip #’s 355, 356, 357, 359, 360, 361
Is it possible that the stable ponies won’t stay on the track, but will go to homes where they will be pet riding horses? I could see those closest to Lukas being rather emotional about the stable ponies, the horses that were his equine closest partners.
They also might be happier staying in the job they know under a former assistant…sure they were provided for and will not fall through any cracks.
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For how well broke his ponies were, I bet they stay on the track doing their jobs.
Photos and videos are up of his consignments. They are a very balanced group; obviously very well taken care of too.
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Treatment is Vancomycin which is very bad for the kidneys. If it’s in his blood, then he doesn’t have long to live, sadly.
I first saw the boots in backwards watching the funeral of President John F. Kennedy on TV.
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