“My plan was to send Jester with a hay bale bag with bale of wet hay so the front bars could come out once they were in the air and he could eat off the ground so his head was down and nose draining…Well the front bars couldn’t come out as they pallets they had didn’t allow for this. So they all arrived into LA to go into quarantine. Now I must say I obviously didn’t see it but was told the boxes were small and dingy and they were not walked at all and they wouldn’t communicate to Bear (our team vet Denis Goulding) any amounts of how much they were eating or drinking. No one was allowed in. Then 12 hours into the 40 hours quarantine Bear got a call saying Festy’s temperature had spiked “slightly” but again no actual figure. By the time we got a figure, 40.3 (and that is way more than a spike) the damage was done. They gave him 10 liters of fluid when he should have gone on a drip all night. 10 liters………they may as well have hosed him off with 10 litres the good that amount was going to do.” Read more at Megan’s website.
What happened to Kirby Park Irish Jester
Australian Megan Jones tells the story of why she had to withdraw Jester from the Australian eventing team:
Jester is recovering well in an equine hospital near L.A. and the rest of the Australian team has made the flight to Kentucky where they will meet up with their newest members, Peter Atkins and HJ Hampton. There are certainly a lot of lessons to be learned from this story and I hope that the FEI quarantine system gets an extensive review as a result because it sounds like the FEI vets in the quarantine did not do enough to help the horse when the temperature first spiked. Thanks to MM for sending the link to Megan’s website. Go eventing.
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