00:00you some terrible terrible news our stallion hercules has passed away
00:06which is difficult to um to take in at the moment but basically what happened he's been living with
00:16harry in york he's been he's been serving our mares he's been serving other people's mares
00:21he's he's served some of some of harry's own horses he's been having a really really lovely
00:26spring but on monday night harry was doing his his late checks he saw that hercules had not eaten his
00:35eaten his food and five minutes later he came back to check again and he was on the floor and he was
00:41rolling he immediately suspected it was a colic this spelt trouble and and big trouble for such
00:47a big horse he was nearly 18 hands he was you know in the prime of his life now harry rang the vet
00:55straight away then he rang me and told me about it then harry's vet rang me and said look we need
01:01to get this horse to hospital and we need to do it quick this is really really serious so i said right
01:08get him there harry kindly loaded him straight up he took him straight to rainbow at malton
01:14we've had such wonderful dealings with with rainbow in the past they've saved several of our horses
01:19they are brilliant and if anyone could they could so he he was assessed um jemma rang me at 3 3am
01:28to say that this was a serious case there was no movement in in a large portion of his of his
01:37intestines there was a blockage so they decided that they would try and treat the blockage with uh
01:45with with with fluids to try and flush it through to try and to try and get it clear because the the
01:50danger of of taking such a big horse into an operation is is significant and and and many
01:57don't survive the anesthetic now the following morning she rang me to say no progress had been
02:03made it was uncomfortable um and his only chance was to operate so i said do it do whatever you need
02:11to do to give him to give him a chance so they they did that they they put him under anesthetic
02:19and and they did a great job they removed the blockage they they got him clear they got him
02:26back up again which was the real real risk with it all you know they often don't survive the anesthetic
02:32nearly you know many don't but he got back up but they could never get his stomach to to work there was
02:38there was no motility in it there was no movement and he started to fade away yesterday afternoon
02:44and and he passed away yesterday tea time so we're
02:50heartbroken is an easy word but but we are and for philip for ruth for the whole of the team it's going
03:04to leave it's going to leave a big void we we don't get animals like that you know i never thought
03:10we'd have an animal like him here on our farm so it is a blow but we've been here before with shire
03:19horses and you sort of know the territory when you get involved in them we've had such a good run
03:24so many successful falls born that then something along something comes along to bite you on the
03:31backside and that's what this is but it feels feels a nasty bite but we'll you know we'll get over it
03:38and we'll we'll we'll push on we've got falls to look forward to from hercules next year
03:46thankfully we took him to the seaman collection center and this was just by chance we had no idea
03:51something like this was likely to happen or you know realistically you always know it can happen but
03:57we didn't expect it but so we've got his breeding potential safeguarded but
04:08to see him um sorry trotting down the yard at springtime
04:17and to think that won't happen again is really upsetting but that will be fine so thank you for
04:24watching um i know you'll be as upset as we are and there are lots of people that harry especially
04:32and uh and jemma at rainbow you know they really fought for him jemma was was super upset last night
04:38we all are
04:39and you know you know you know we all are
04:42we all are
04:43we all are
04:49you
04:49you
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