>>> 80's/early 90's.. but this was also the reason he
 >>> foundered and had to be put down.
 >> Darn, I can't remember his name either -- there was an artcle in
 >> EQUUS about it (last year I believe)
 > I believe it was Secratariate... my vet at the time
 > was down there when it happened (late 70's/early
 > 80's). He came back totally depressed about it. He was
 > a TB lover.
    I believe you're right, Bob ...
 >>  ..there was another article about a
 >> horse who had foundered because he ate too many little green apples from
 >> a tree in the pasture.
 > Nope.. the horse(s) were collicing, not foundering. ;)
    Yes, the horse coliced ...... but then foundered too.
(At least that's what I thought the article said ;-)
 >> After I wrote that note I remembered about Meg telling us that Fiddle
 >> had broken down the fence and had gotten into the pasture that she had
 >> fertilized etc and her hubby had to replace the fence posts (something he
 >> had planned on doing slowly during the summer but had to do all at once)
 >> ..... I then wondered if that's what had caused the founder ...
 > The grass yes.. especially spring growth.. I don't
 > think the fertilizer played a factor. If memory
 > serves.. it's the spring and fall growth that can be
 > so dangerous becuase of the changes in the content of
 > the grass as a feed.
    Yes, another article I read warned about that.
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