Anxiously waiting to hear back!

ycbm said:
She's very well bred! Daddy won a lot of money, nearly 2 million.

New Approach is by Galileo. If I'm not mistaken @nikkimariet 's Fig was by him and he was as tough as old boots and talented at dressage on top and retired from racing at the same age.
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Aww Figgy ❤️ He was the best boy. Raced 28 times over Aus, Japan & UK. Took me all the way to inter 1 competitively and allowed me to wobble round a few inter 2’s before retiring to passively passage his way round hacks. Hot as sin to ride but super genuine, had him a decade and he never so much as even thought about doing anything naughty!

I will always miss him.
 
Lovely Irish TB breeding! But I am bias because my TIH gelding (a Connie X Tb) is out of a mare by New Approach!
She sounds great. Real positive that she didn't race as a 2 year old. I know 2 exracers, with New approach lines, who raced 50+ times over betwwen 7 furlongs and 11/4 miles. Both retired sound aged 9 and have gone on to have excellent eventing /dressage careers.
Good luck!!
 
dapple_grey said:
Congratulations, she sounds lovely!

I met her sire, New Approach, and he has the most beautiful temperament. Really soppy and loving. He was a favourite among a lot of the staff at Dalham Hall in Newmarket, where he stood at the time. I believe he stands somewhere in Ireland now.
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He's back with Jim Bolger who trained him and his best son(s) - he had a serious decline infertility and Bolger was entitled to a certain number of covers a year as part of his training fee package, Godolphin gave him to Jim to use on his own mares at home rather than sending them to Newmarket. He only covered 11 mares in his last year at Dalham
 
Thank you everyone.

druid said:
Saffie, her rider at home is Jamie the trainer's daughter.

Watership Down Stud is Andrew Lloyd Webber's, the guy who writes musicals. She was foaled at Kiltinan Castle Stud in Tipperary, Ireland though - the Irish arm of his breeding enterprise.
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That’s interesting to know, thank you!

First Frost said:
Lovely Irish TB breeding! But I am bias because my TIH gelding (a Connie X Tb) is out of a mare by New Approach!
She sounds great. Real positive that she didn't race as a 2 year old. I know 2 exracers, with New approach lines, who raced 50+ times over betwwen 7 furlongs and 11/4 miles. Both retired sound aged 9 and have gone on to have excellent eventing /dressage careers.
Good luck!!
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Fingers crossed!
 
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nutjob said:
I used to have a just backed 4yo who did the toe dragging, tripping occasionally and he did grow out of it as he strengthened up but it wasn't to the extent you're describing.

This one is still doing it after being in work for a year and is thin and lacking top line, worrying. My wobbler toe drags, only in walk, but otherwise looks normal and the first vet who saw him when I became worried said he was sound. A friend's horse tripped behind regularly and turned out to have kissing spines.

The mare looks lovely, like someone still cares about her not just bunged in a field and forgotten when she's no longer racing. There's little to lose.
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Mine who did this as a 4 yo ( weak, under muscled ) turned out to have ECVM
 
Yesterday evening was fun to say the least.. popped her out in a different 6 acre field full of grass with the mares right next door. We walked her over and she touched noses with my mare.

She then went absolutely beserk, but not trying to get to the horses. She wanted to get out that field and back the way the stables are! She ran through more electric fencing, even heavy duty posts with 3 strands of fencing and got in with the other mares but came back again thankfully the other mares didn’t stir to much.

Long story short. Managed to catch her, 4 of us fixed the fencing and made it even more secure. Extra tape, low and high. Then popped my mare out with her but it made no difference. My mare was just stood there next to her and Saffie was going berserk. She had no interest in other horses. White in sweat. I couldn’t even get near her to catch her. We all waited hoping she would calm down and she did get one shock from the fence but then she tried to barge the post and rail. 🙁

Eventually she calmed down, started investigating around the field and when we left (3 hours later) she was grazing with my mare not far from her.

I left her out over night, a freelance rider checked her late last night and a friend checked her at 5.30am this morning, she’s still in the field and grazing.

I’m not sure if this is normal.. I mean she hasn’t been at another yard for 5 years and she was out in a paddock with a miniature Shetland for the last 6 months.

Felt scared because the field is so big? Wanted to go back to her safe place (stable?) I’m told she was led down sleeping in her stable and she didn’t mind horses leaving yesterday so seems just the field is the issue.

I really hope she settles (and hasn’t hurt herself) she’s barefoot galloping on very hard ground and a stony part of the field. Fingers crossed 🙏
 
I wish I could reassure you, but no that's not normal even for TB of the track. A trot or canter round, yes, but not what you describe there. Hopefully it's just the upset of moving and today she'll be fine. I'd put her straight into a routine of work (I know she needs to be got fit, it can start with in hand) if you can. I've normally found TBs best kept mentally busy or they can fabricate all sorts of horrors for themselves 🤪 Though obviously it's a judgement call only you can make with her in front of you.
 
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Mine did a similar thing, although after a few days. She just charged through the tape, so we rebuilt it and put her back in only for her to go for it again, wrecking the tape, several posts and the energiser. After that, I left them to it and just hoped nobody got too beaten up. No hind shoes on any of them, and my field has enough room for them to get out of each other's way. She settled down fairly quickly after that - I think she was just over-excited and overwhelmed.
 
Much more settled this evening! Had a trot around and then started grazing so that’s a huge improvement!

Asides that. My vet has just got around to looking at the videos I sent over, I didn’t see anything obvious (either did all my friends) but she’s picked up possibly LF and LH lameness. 😢

Told me to get her shod and then she’ll come out.
I mean positive I didn’t pay anything and she can go back but it’s all a bit stressful for her.
 
Will getting her shod actually make her sound or be a temp fix? This sounds odd as there's no diagnosis yet and she's been unshod happily for a while??
 
Hormonal Filly said:
Much more settled this evening! Had a trot around and then started grazing so that’s a huge improvement!

Asides that. My vet has just got around to looking at the videos I sent over, I didn’t see anything obvious (either did all my friends) but she’s picked up possibly LF and LH lameness. 😢

Told me to get her shod and then she’ll come out.
I mean positive I didn’t pay anything and she can go back but it’s all a bit stressful for her.
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Don’t panic just yet!
 
Is anyone good at seeing lameness?

I have the videos I sent to my vet which they sent to me last week. I can possibly see she’s a bit short in front but she’s trotted up on gravel.
 
What are her feet like? It could be something as simple as thin/soft soles or thrush.

And running up a roughed-off thoroughbred on gravel, isn't going to give you an accurate clue as to what may, or may not be going on. I certainly wouldn't be worrying about anything just yet.
 
I would think that if your vet thinks she's lame from a video, then almost certainly she is lame but I would also be in the don't panic yet camp!

It doesn't sound like she's been maintained as a barefoot working horse, simply had her shoes removed and been turned away. It's unlikely with the spring grass that she's had an ideal barefoot diet and hasn't done the work on a hard surface to condition the feet. Also it's been a horrible wet winter so definitely a good idea to look for thrush.

If you put shoes on and she's still lame then time for a rethink.

Can you get her previous vet history and / or contact the trainer to see if she has any prior accident or injury?
 
Hormonal Filly said:
Yesterday evening was fun to say the least.. popped her out in a different 6 acre field full of grass with the mares right next door. We walked her over and she touched noses with my mare.

She then went absolutely beserk, but not trying to get to the horses. She wanted to get out that field and back the way the stables are! She ran through more electric fencing, even heavy duty posts with 3 strands of fencing and got in with the other mares but came back again thankfully the other mares didn’t stir to much.

Long story short. Managed to catch her, 4 of us fixed the fencing and made it even more secure. Extra tape, low and high. Then popped my mare out with her but it made no difference. My mare was just stood there next to her and Saffie was going berserk. She had no interest in other horses. White in sweat. I couldn’t even get near her to catch her. We all waited hoping she would calm down and she did get one shock from the fence but then she tried to barge the post and rail. 🙁

Eventually she calmed down, started investigating around the field and when we left (3 hours later) she was grazing with my mare not far from her.

I left her out over night, a freelance rider checked her late last night and a friend checked her at 5.30am this morning, she’s still in the field and grazing.

I’m not sure if this is normal.. I mean she hasn’t been at another yard for 5 years and she was out in a paddock with a miniature Shetland for the last 6 months.

Felt scared because the field is so big? Wanted to go back to her safe place (stable?) I’m told she was led down sleeping in her stable and she didn’t mind horses leaving yesterday so seems just the field is the issue.

I really hope she settles (and hasn’t hurt herself) she’s barefoot galloping on very hard ground and a stony part of the field. Fingers crossed 🙏
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I can reassure you, that this can happen, it took BB 3 weeks to settle properly in the field and just to a different home life. BB made himself a track all the say round the field initially just running about fretting.
Tbs can be very fearful but once she trusts you that will all change, usually in an instant.
Do some groundwork and bonding with her. I did join up and it helped a lot.
 
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