The wife
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Got a super talented 7yr old mare who is what can on,y be described as bridle lame. Bought as a 3 yr old off the track, re-schooled, lightly and successfully shown as a 4yr old, did BYEH classes etc. Evented lightly again during her 5th and 6th years, as well as again successfully showing and qualifying for Hickstead.
She came out at the beginning of this season after her Winter holidays in March time. She's a bit of a monkey so on morning of her first show trotted for about 2miles down the road to get her back down, took her to show, warmed up sound, went into the ring... Lame. Got 3rd anyhow and qualified for Equifest from a judge who proclaimed her lame??!! Took her out, jogged up, sound, warmed up for next class sound, goes into ring... Lame. Nod of the head, out we go.
Shes been intermittently lame on and off since regardless of where you are and what you are doing with her. She's been on a large quantity of bute over A week long period to try to get her sound (nearly enough to cure a broken leg!) still lame on and off. We've had vet out, nerve blocked, which came back inconclusive as she was lamer after them, sent down to Newmarket for scans, had the whole shebang. She was lunged prior to boxing up to go to Newmarket and was lame, got there and trotted up sound. They just could not make her go lame. Inconclusive results as scans showed nothing.
Since then we have been fiddling about with different things. Stress seems to make her worse but I have literally watched her going from perfectly sound to hopping lame in a strides length. We've changed bits, taken nosebands off, put them on, tried different saddles, had teeth done, back, tried variety of things, jumped her, hacked her, changed feed, tried very loose contact, very tight contact, different saddle pads, consistent routine, irrational routine, smacking her, calming her, riding her through it all and she always, without fail wants to do whatever is asked of her, she's happy. She's a very 'reactive' animal so even a slight pinch we would know!
She lunges sound, pulls out sound, hacks sound and sometimes schools sound but then the nodding starts and she goes lame. Sent a video off to vets in Newmarket showing her going lame. He's told us there is no such thing as bridle lame.
So we are stuck with a inconsistently lame horse who is very talented, willing and able to the job, who after the Scans and x-rays from Newmarket, we are confident that she is not in any pain at all but looks lame and as I said above if she was in any sort of pain with her being so reactive and sensitive we would know about it!
Next step is a small amount of ACP while riding her and see where we are at.
Any suggestions appreciated please
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She came out at the beginning of this season after her Winter holidays in March time. She's a bit of a monkey so on morning of her first show trotted for about 2miles down the road to get her back down, took her to show, warmed up sound, went into the ring... Lame. Got 3rd anyhow and qualified for Equifest from a judge who proclaimed her lame??!! Took her out, jogged up, sound, warmed up for next class sound, goes into ring... Lame. Nod of the head, out we go.
Shes been intermittently lame on and off since regardless of where you are and what you are doing with her. She's been on a large quantity of bute over A week long period to try to get her sound (nearly enough to cure a broken leg!) still lame on and off. We've had vet out, nerve blocked, which came back inconclusive as she was lamer after them, sent down to Newmarket for scans, had the whole shebang. She was lunged prior to boxing up to go to Newmarket and was lame, got there and trotted up sound. They just could not make her go lame. Inconclusive results as scans showed nothing.
Since then we have been fiddling about with different things. Stress seems to make her worse but I have literally watched her going from perfectly sound to hopping lame in a strides length. We've changed bits, taken nosebands off, put them on, tried different saddles, had teeth done, back, tried variety of things, jumped her, hacked her, changed feed, tried very loose contact, very tight contact, different saddle pads, consistent routine, irrational routine, smacking her, calming her, riding her through it all and she always, without fail wants to do whatever is asked of her, she's happy. She's a very 'reactive' animal so even a slight pinch we would know!
She lunges sound, pulls out sound, hacks sound and sometimes schools sound but then the nodding starts and she goes lame. Sent a video off to vets in Newmarket showing her going lame. He's told us there is no such thing as bridle lame.
So we are stuck with a inconsistently lame horse who is very talented, willing and able to the job, who after the Scans and x-rays from Newmarket, we are confident that she is not in any pain at all but looks lame and as I said above if she was in any sort of pain with her being so reactive and sensitive we would know about it!
Next step is a small amount of ACP while riding her and see where we are at.
Any suggestions appreciated please
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