30/10/2021
RIP our beautiful boy 💜💜
A'Landell Kazade
It's not often you hear stories from friends regarding their experiences involving horse and car accidents.. people tend to be to traumatised to share their experiences publicly for personal reasons, or that of fear for being judged and or critized for riding on roads.
We think it is important we share with you our experience to bring awareness to those who may not know the road rules, for those who have forgotten the road rules, and for those who may not have horse knowledge and or not know how horses react ..
A couple of weeks ago we lost our boy in an unfortunate road accident.. a driver with a trailer was travelling past horse and rider and although they slowed down, they did not stop.. the sound of the trailer spooked the horse and as a result he shyd and backed up onto the road in the path of the trailer. Unfortunately his injuries were catastrophic and he had to be PTS. Fortunately our rider was not physically injured, however as you could imagine she will carry this tragic experience with her for a long time.
This horse held a special place in many people's hearts.. he served many years with his owner (Jen) who loved him dearly, he was that 1 horse you know u will never get to experience a love the same again.. a partnership that was unbreakable... competing in endurance clocking up 2300+ endurance KM's..
After recently retiring from endurance, he started his next chapter in life becoming a begginers horse teaching a dad how to ride with his daughter... a dad who has never riden a horse before and needed a trusting compainion to show him the ropes.. he also imprinted his love onto a new endurance rider, one that was new to the sport and was gaining confidence back..these two creating a bond that was also special.
It is important we share our story with you.. not for sympathy, but for awareness, to put a horses face to a tragedy that could happen to any of you...
Kazade was 15yo, he has been there done that, done 1000s of kms of endurance, he was a horse that took care of his riders, nearly as bomb proof as you could get.. so for this to have happened to him shows it could easily happen to anyone on any horse. People must remember, horses have right of way!!! You need to slow down and if you see the horse is in distress, you need to stop!!!!!
This was an unfortunate accident that could have been avoided if the driver just stopped... allowing our rider enough time to dismount... please share and use our experience as a reminder this could happen to anyone.. please practise caution when out on roads, and help spread awareness and acceptance to everyone sharing our roads.
RIP A'Landell Kazade, a true gentleman to the very end ###
We would also like to thank the community who helped, the local vet who was there in less than 5 minutes, and all our friends and family who have reached out.
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