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I thought I'd do a quick update. We pulled a hair sample and sent it off to be tested and got the vet out to do a workup. He was as sound as can be in the lameness exam but she agreed he looked braced and unhappy in his back under saddle. We X-rayed his back and found that he had a narrowing of...

Interesting, thanks all. He is prone to heavy sweating (improved with added electrolytes) and is quite cold intolerant (which we have always assumed to be because he was bred in Louisiana). He also sometimes twitches like he is being irritated by flies even if there arent many about, this is...

I have an 11 year old Percheron X (dutch warmblood/thoroughbred) with whom I compete at the local equivalent of Prelim/elementary affiliated dressage. He can be a little sharp but the other week he managed to dump me when he decided to buck and spin suddenly when asked for more bend in trot...