Cats Don’t Dance, one of the two Saddlebreds which survived malicious attacks in late June, is sound and has been started back under saddle, according to his owner, Sally Jackson, of Overland Park, Kan., and Nathan Slovis, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, the horse’s treating veterinarian at Hagyard-Davidson-McGee veterinary hospital in Lexington, Ky. The 6-year-old gelding and four other Saddlebreds at Double D Ranch in Versailles, Ky., were injected with a necrotizing substance in their left front forelegs in late June.

The yet-unidentified substance used in the attack apparently coagulated the horses’ blood on contact, killing the tissue and resulting in large wounds that compromised the horses’ ability to bear weight evenly. Three of the horses were euthanized following complications from their injuries. Another horse, a filly named Sassational, recovered and was back in training by the end of July. For archived stories on the Saddlebreds, click here