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Audin - died
in Turkey from colic. |
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Bilugubi
- Described as being "magnificent, beautiful and free", this
stallion had been running wild for several years on an old Soviet
collective farm when foreigners roped him and put him to work on their
expedition riding around Lake Baikal. Because they were in a hurry
the foreigners drove this horse into a large body of water, ignoring the
advice of their Russian guide, and in spite of already having had several
near-catastrophes with water crossings. Bilugubi quickly
drowned. The expedition leader immediately ordered the stallion's
body to be tied to a dinghy and brought to shore. His corpse
was then dragged onto the beach and butchered. The men, who needed
neither the meat nor money, promptly ate Bilugubi's heart and liver and
sold the rest of the meat to a group of nearby villagers! Thus they are
the only known travelers in modern times who willingly feasted on an
equine companion. |
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Blue -
died from strangles during a journey in
Colorado in 1999. |
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Freddy - died in Guatemala from colic. |
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Lady - fell
from a cliff in Utah. |
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Mystery - succumbed to the bite of a
poisonous viper in Turkey. |
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Pampero, Maracas, India & Caicique - died at the border between
Mexico and Texas. |
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Pukhtoon - lost his life in
Kafiristan after receiving an injection of medicine that had turned toxic. |
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Rahaal
- died of equine piroplasmosis, also known as biliary fever, in Khartoum,
Sudan in 2007. |
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Raindrop - broke his leg in the Karakorum Mountains of Northern
Pakistan. |
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Sam Bass - died of laminitis in
Wyoming. |
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Streak - was
killed by a truck in Tennessee. |
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Three Socks - died of colic in
Kyrgyzstan. |
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Toroka - was slain by Turkana
tribesmen in Africa. |
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Tupe - plunged over a precipice in
Bolivia. |
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Tu Fein - was
diagnosed with pyroplasmosis by a vet in Guatemala. Although
pyroplasmosis is not a lethal disease, the vet mistakenly informed the owner
that the horse had to be destroyed immediately. |
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Tusa - was
destroyed in Brazil because he was diagnosed with Equine
Infectious Anemia. |
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Ulaan and the Beast - were killed by a swarm of
thousands of carnivorous flies in Mongolia.
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Valerosa - died in California after
drinking river water contaminated by e-coli bacteria from human waste. |
