Coping with not being able to ride the injured horse

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Just found out the big girlie has tendon damage about to be sorted out so should come right in time...that's the problem though, of course i will do everything as i should but how on earth do you cope with a horse that can't be ridden? It's only been just over a week and already i'm lost without riding.

I know it's time for grooming, bonding etc and counting down the days until work can start but just having a vent i guess.

Now i sound like a spoilt brat! At least my horse is fixable...ok all over now!!
 
My mare has been on box rest for 10 weeks with a tendon injury. She had surgery on it nearly 5 weeks ago! The prognosis when she had the op was very poor for being ridden again but vet is more positive now! However, I don't think that I want to risk riding her again incase it happens again so I am tempted to just let her retire in the field! I thought I would miss riding her but all my energy and time is being used up in her care and I am on a mission to get her field sound!
I do have my daughter's 14.2 mare to jump on if I want a hack but I have no desire in doing anything more with her!
 
Hi , my lovely 5 year old has not been ridden since May and I can't see it being anytime soon that he will be back in work :( I do miss riding him so much but you just get on it .
 
It's tough although there may be other people on your yard who would welcome their horse getting more exercise? When my girl was on 3 months box rest I hacked out a couple of other horses on the yard :)
 
My mare had over 6 months before she was able to be ridden following a tendon injury. I spent the time on the ground with her but also went and had lessons on riding school ponies once a week to brush up on my skills as well as getting my riding fix :D
 
after deciding to give Taz a holiday i actually dont feel that need to ride anymore... i will take it or leave it which is why he was supposed to be out of work 3 months but it ended up 10 months :o im still like it.. i have 2 horses in ridden work but i often find myself coming up with excuses not to ride and rather much out or groom instead and in the summer i just sat in their field under the oak tree and read as i like my time around the horses but not always riding... but then again i could just be strange :o
 
I am not that bothered... it does irk me a bit that he costs a lot more to keep than a healthy horse though. He will possibly be able to hack, unfortunately after so many years off working as a groom doing endless roadwork with hunters / p2p'ers I find hacking tediously boring and was looking forward to doing other things, schooling, jumping, competitions etc. All I have literally done since I passed my BHS exams 18 years ago is exercise, fittening work, a little hunting and the odd x-country schooling day when someone has wanted a horse to go.
 
I've got the opposite problem, healthy horses getting fat in the field doing nothing because I've been ill and hardly been able to ride at all this year. I do enjoy giving them a groom and looking after them as much as I can but I really do miss riding them properly and feel guilty that two of them are a bit too fat.
 
Wish I had a horse that I couldn't ride!!
Just moaning though I made a promise to myself that at some point I'm going to get my old boy back even if its a case of him just living his golden years with me, for him I wojldnt need to ride!
 
aww hugs x

Bonding and grooming - you are right, it's lovely and rare so enjoy it.

I always feel guilty if I just groom n bond without riding. I love the bonding bit though ..... feeling the love for my geegee tonight.
 
I was just about to post about my girl's injury. She got a puncture wound to her knee back in August and today I can see good healing for the first time after proud flesh was removed thanks to steroid cream and bandaging. Reckon we will be back in work in a week or so, very very excited as I had a baby in May so we have been doing very little for almost a year!
 
Know what you mean OP. My lovely 20yr old mare is on loan to a lovely lady on my yard. But the mare has recently been diagnosed with damage and calcification to her long pastern and can only be ridden intermittently, as her lameness dictates. I could see it coming...the loaner gave me 2 weeks notice tonight that she's ending the loan arrangement. I do understand that there's no point loaning a horse to ride that you then can't ride but if the horse belonged to the loaner she'd have had to accept it and make do. So sad for poor Bridie, not sure what the future holds for her now :-(
 
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