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He has been intermittently lame on and off since last november. It's so ridiculously slight sometimes I think I am imagining it. He's competing at novice level dressage (not with me I'm not a good enough rider!) and starting to school elementary at home,he is in a reasonable level of work schooling and hacking 5/6 days a week. It's not as though we abuse him either, I do walk and trot hacking and we always school on a good level surface never deep and holey - neither of us jump him, he is never thrashed on roads etc etc. I have changed farriers and new one is balancing his feet - shod every 6 weeks.
He's lamer on the left rein on a circle, but only 1/10 lame trotted on flat level concrete.
I am just paranoid he's knackered, My mare has been in retirement since october 2011 after unsuccessful treatment for bone spavin ongoing since 2009. Looks like my boy is going the same way.
I am going to do what my vet told me to do with the mare and he has agreed this is a sensible first step. we have done paddock rest. - he had 2 weeks over xmas no riding and then hacking only for another 3 weeks, we started back with lessons and he went "bridle lame" which he worked through it well, this horse knows every evasion in the book! We competed 2 weeks ago, he went brilliantly followed by an excellent lesson. Now we are back to square one. As soon as we up the work, he goes lame. I am now going to try box rest for a week no bute and see where we are at the end of that time.
My worry is I have another paddock ornament. We want a horse to compete, I love doing the grooming my friend rides for me. I don't want another paddock pet - I have one of those already and he's only 10 - (the mare is 17) So thinking ahead I suppose I can sell or loan him as a happy hack and look for our next comp horse.
He is insured so we can spend that next step will be x-rays and scans. Anyone else has similar problems?
He's lamer on the left rein on a circle, but only 1/10 lame trotted on flat level concrete.
I am just paranoid he's knackered, My mare has been in retirement since october 2011 after unsuccessful treatment for bone spavin ongoing since 2009. Looks like my boy is going the same way.
I am going to do what my vet told me to do with the mare and he has agreed this is a sensible first step. we have done paddock rest. - he had 2 weeks over xmas no riding and then hacking only for another 3 weeks, we started back with lessons and he went "bridle lame" which he worked through it well, this horse knows every evasion in the book! We competed 2 weeks ago, he went brilliantly followed by an excellent lesson. Now we are back to square one. As soon as we up the work, he goes lame. I am now going to try box rest for a week no bute and see where we are at the end of that time.
My worry is I have another paddock ornament. We want a horse to compete, I love doing the grooming my friend rides for me. I don't want another paddock pet - I have one of those already and he's only 10 - (the mare is 17) So thinking ahead I suppose I can sell or loan him as a happy hack and look for our next comp horse.
He is insured so we can spend that next step will be x-rays and scans. Anyone else has similar problems?
so we had the vet out time and time again, back lady out everything, ended up having her nerves 'blocked' to see exactly where it was, her joint fluid in her coffin joint was a bit runny, so they thought it was a diseased joint, but then the blockers didn't stop the lameness, at that point, so it was inside her foot, had x-rays incase it was navicular etc etc and nothing came up apart from a sist in her bone that she would have had since a foal. 
) we found my horse had a keratoma which is fixable! 
