Am I bad luck?!?

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After a few years of not regularly riding (although own my PC pony still and keep him active) I was offered a beautiful well bred 16.3 6 YO Hanoverian to ride which had been broken and turned away due to the owners illness (owner is a close family friend).

Could do as I pleased with the mare and owner was grateful for any thing I did... Lovely mare if a bit of a cow in hand, huge potential but no muscle/condition/top line having practically lived out mostly untouched since it was bought as a foal...

After about a month had an accident in the field and 6 months later is still unsound - vet has no idea but tried every thing had x-rays etc...

Move forward 5 months and when visiting my friends new yard (which I subsequently have moved my old boy to) I was offered another 6 YO to ride. 15.3 Arab x which had been out of work due to various injuries and aliments...

A pleasure to ride and despite being green is very honest. Hoped to get her fit, go on the last of the few hunting meets and be jumping BN and Disco going into the winter season 2013/2014

Agreed to take on formal loan from April as owner is pregnant

However - she too had a field accident resulting in lameness and then went lame to mud fever and then to an old problem in her foot... I must say throughout the last month of lameness she has had vet, physio and farrier and had every thing done to get her sound

She has now been lame for 3 weeks...

Am I just bad luck!?!?

Just want to bloody ride! Have the bug again!

Just to note - I wasn't looking for a new horse when either of these were offered to me and not looking to buy another one due to several factors with work
 
Thank you.. ;-)

The owner of the Hanoverian emailed yesterday saying she "thinks" the mare will come sound in the Spring... but will take soooo much work to get her right and a horse of her breeding/experience will be a huge commitment and without knowing what the problem is leaves me to nervous esp as I would want to do decent level classes with her...

Hoping Arab will come good, seeing farrier this afternoon so might find out the likely hood of her coming good foot wise.. But now nervous of committing myself financially to her given that I had her in all ways other than financially on loan since before Christmas and been able to ride 5 times in total....

I happily sacrifice a good deal of money to my boy - I just couldn't do it for another one if I cant ride and compete..

Sigh................
 
Its a pain in the butt when things like that happen and its hard not to get upset and frustrated about it, but just think you have your boy for now and if and when something comes along, whether its the Hannoverian or the Arab it will just be a bonus! :)

My glass is always half full ;) LOL
 
Given your worries, you might want to consider one of the less fragile breeds/crosses. I also think once a horse has had an injury or series of these, its chances of getting further injuries increases. E.g. injury in one limb puts pressure on others; being out of work to recover means longer to get fit/more chance to injure due to lack of fitness.
Go for something that is reasonably fit and maybe a cross-breed of some type - ISH or cob.
You are not unlucky; horses are incredibly prone to injury, as you are finding out!
 
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