ihatework
Well-Known Member
It would be very easy to over analyse this and if it were my horse I would be analysing to the nth degree (rightly or wrongly).
The likelihood is it’s just sheer bloody bad luck, he got it wrong, sh*t happens.
But I would have a niggle that this isn’t the first time it happens.
Watching it on slow mo, he is a little way off the fence, but not so wrong and the fence isn’t big, that he couldn’t just jump a bit bigger.
What I don’t like is that he doesn’t appear to lower his neck or make an attempt to look at what he is doing, he just flings himself at it and keeps his shoulders low. Had that been Xc it could have been a rotational.
So I agree you are right to have the vet check him out. Your problem will be knowing if he is sore just from the fall or if he was protecting something that caused the fall.
I have to say I haven’t noticed him jumping in a style that would have me concerned previously, so hopefully it is just bad luck!
The likelihood is it’s just sheer bloody bad luck, he got it wrong, sh*t happens.
But I would have a niggle that this isn’t the first time it happens.
Watching it on slow mo, he is a little way off the fence, but not so wrong and the fence isn’t big, that he couldn’t just jump a bit bigger.
What I don’t like is that he doesn’t appear to lower his neck or make an attempt to look at what he is doing, he just flings himself at it and keeps his shoulders low. Had that been Xc it could have been a rotational.
So I agree you are right to have the vet check him out. Your problem will be knowing if he is sore just from the fall or if he was protecting something that caused the fall.
I have to say I haven’t noticed him jumping in a style that would have me concerned previously, so hopefully it is just bad luck!