My friend's horse is dead.
Her name was Best. She was a gray Czech Warmblood mare, about 16.3 hands tall. Jumped fantastic.
Most of the time.
Yesterday - yes, on Christmas - she was standing in her stall when something startled her and she ran outside. She tried to jump the 5-foot-tall fence, but her front feet got tangled up in it and she flipped over onto her back, slamming into the side of the small arena just a few feet from her stall. She actually moved the arena's metal siding back a few inches and bent the top rail of her stall's fence.
She broke her pelvis at the right hip socket, and while she could stand, she couldn't really walk. The vet said even if they had put a cast on it and it miraculously healed, she'd never jump again and maybe never even be ridden again. If they didn't put a cast on it, she would stand in her stall for a few weeks needing pain meds every 6 hours and constantly shifting her weight from the broken leg to the other one taking all the weight, then she would founder and the same problems would occur. Even if they had put a cast on it, it would have put more pressure on the break and only put her in more pain.
She was only about ten years old.
(The pics are really big, so I'm just linking to them.)
Best and Kymmy.Jumping.