NYC carriage horse on the mend after scary collapse in Manhattan: stable worker
The horse, named Ryder, spent the night at the West Side Livery stables on West 38th Street when it was photographed lying in the middle of the road in Hell’s Kitchen while being hit by its driver. repeatedly and ordered him to “get up”.
Christina Hansen, a driver who works at the ranch, told the Post it was “impossible” that the 14-year-old horse would be put down or sold after the show. Wednesday.
“He’s not for sale,” said Hansen, wearing a top hat, adding that he had spoken to the horse’s owner earlier Thursday.
A veterinarian examined Ryder after the NYPD Mounted Unit brought him back to the stable after he collapsed — and the diagnosis was equine protozoan myeloencephalitis, a neurological disease caused by opossum feces, Hansen said.
Hansen said the horse is unlikely to be returned to work immediately because it will require treatment for EPM.
Hansen, who is also a store manager, said: “It would have been unreasonable to have him put in the car immediately. “We have all the time in the world. We will do the right thing for the horse. He will be taken care of and we will find one of the best places for him to retire,” he added. .
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A stable official said Ryder, who has only been in the Big Apple since April after being used as an Amish buggy horse, is already doing “very well.”
“He’s beautiful. He’s already weeded. He ate his carrot,” Hansen said.
His insistence that Ryder should not be dumped came after the chairman of NYCLASS – the carriage association – said the horse was at risk of being sold for slaughter after he failed.
“If the owner sells Ryder alone, he is at great risk of having to stop the sale due to murder or other dire circumstances,” Edita Birnkrant said in a statement.
Birnkrant said the organization initially placed Ryder in a sanctuary where he would receive lifelong love and care as well as proper medical care.
