Severe Recrudescent Necrosis of the Splenius Muscle

Here is the photo of the autopsy of a horse that was considered healthy, myologically at least. On the photo, you can easily see the affected regions. In this case we see a very severe, obvious and definite chronic affectation of the splenius neck muscles. The ones that together with the trapezius and the atlas muscles-suffer most of all from forced collection. The grey mass that is perfectly seen and shown in the picture is unquestionably necrotized muscle tissue. Dead muscle tissue within the body of the living horse whom the equestrian sport community foredoomed to be ‘happy athlete’ (It is phenomenal that this term be used by the FEI in such an instance of marasmus. The term ‘happy athlete’ is used for dressage horse.)
NHE Research Center