To question why Valegro has been put to sleep?

23 and 24 isn’t a bad age for a big horse , I’ve lost one at 22, another at 23 and our oldest horse was 27 when she was PTS and many people would have done her quicker as she had multiple health issues including an oesophageal stricture . Ponies tend to last longer ours is 33 and looking good . I’ve no idea what was wrong with these two but Carl Hester did say they had increasing health issues and I really doubt it was a money issue as they could easily have found them a retirement home .

I don’t know what their health issues were, but it’s not at all uncommon to PTS long term pair bonded horses at the same time.

It’s very difficult for them to adjust to the loss of their companion especially in old age with health issues.

At 23 and 24, both of them would have long since stopped making money and as horses who were started young and ridden at that level, they likely had much more joint pain and wear and tear than the average horse that just hacks.

I don’t think it’s an unusual thing to do and probably quite a compassionate decision, though I don’t know anything about these horses specifically.

It's none of our business. For any animal, it's about quality of life rather than long life; for large competition horses, they were a good age. I'm sure it was an incredibly hard decision to make and will have been made with the best intentions for the horses.

Maybe one of them had an injury, or colic, or cancer, maybe they both had raging arthritis from years and years of dressage. We can speculate all day long but we’ll never know unless we’re told and it really is non of our business so I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Imagine thinking you know better than Carl Hester and his vets 🙄

It could be anything, I believe Valegro had tripped and ? Had arthritis
You don’t wait until they’re crippled and in agony or until an emergency, you let an animal go when they’re only going to go downhill before the pain
23 and 24 are good ages for big competition horses

Who knows what their health conditions were and it doesn't concern you. They lived together and neither would have done well without the other. Carl did his best for them both and should be lauded for putting them first. It would have absolutely fuck all to do with money and to say so is incredibly insulting to Carl.

You're going to have to explain a bit more, OP.