An emaciated 4-year-old Thoroughbred named Sarahs Tiger needed a sling hung from a special scaffold to keep him upright when he was brought by equine ambulance to the UW Veterinary Medical Hospital on Tuesday. It wasn?t long ago when Tiger was a handsome gelding 16 hands high and presumably with a future as a race horse. But after he failed to win on the track, he was left to starve on an Illinois farm before rescuers stepped in late last month and tried to save him.
Dr. Sarah Jacob said Tiger?s condition was guarded to poor. ?The next 24 to 48 hours will tell the story of how he?s going to do,? she said.
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