Grace's final scan is booked!

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I am already worried sick about it, but I need to get it done so I can either start enjoying her antics, or try another avenue...

This morning I walked her down the lane (bridle and coupling chain attached
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) and she was really well behaved... until a bird was making a very strange noise and she decided it was a grace eating monster. So she spun around and wanted to go home but I made her walk past it (eyes boggling out) and then we set off walking back to the yard
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One of the horses decided he wanted to play so started galloping about in the field (I never realised what a gorgeous trot this horse has by the way
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) and Grace thought it was far too good to miss out on and tried going with him. I stopped her moving forwards without any trouble at all, but my word is that horse an athletic young lady. She was passaging next to me, but not just a bouncy trot, I mean real passage where she was lifting to hocks really high and having a fantastic elevation!

All I could do was look in awe at my gorgeous ginger girl and I did feel a bit sad thinking I might never have the chance to sit to that!

I then made her carry on walking, and a scary bird flew out of the hedge and we went from passage to a beautiful piaffe. Because I had the bit in, she was in the most stunning outline and because she was naked, I could see all of her back curved right up!

So... Tuesday morning is D Day
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Good luck Becki! I'm glad you seem a bit more optimistic than the last post I saw from you last week. Fingers crossed everything will be ok & you will get to sit on Grace as she passages & piaffes beautifully down the centre line in an advanced test
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Hey Becki,

I think you may be pleasantly surprised, you know - I remember this all too well and unfortunately, we did get to a point where a chifney was the only way, in fact at one stage she was so dangerous (I mean all four feet off the floor, coming down, rearing and boxing out at whoever had hold of her) that she had on a chifney and a controller headcollar, with two separate leadropes. She barges through a bridle when she's that wound up. We only had to touch the chifney in dire straits (sounds ridiculous now but we had nowhere to go, she was uncontrollable and this was on ACP! Her scans all came back fine…

With staples in her leg after surgery, she took off across cobbles and on concrete and did the impressive capriole things, landing, of course, on said leg first. :-o

She had SD in both hind suspensories and had shockwave therapy for those, managed some impressive hooning about in that time rearing, skidding, all of it on those hindlegs, argh!) and yet the scans came back hugely improved and she is now back in work.

The physio's ultrasound machine really seemed to help speed the healing process on the ligaments, by the way, spaced between the shockwave sessions.

I do understand your fears and frustrations totally, have been to the vet hospital in Newmarket with her soooo many times and cried buckets at so many setbacks, my girl has so many different problems. Just one thing though as your post made me remember! When the horses are out of their stables at Newmarket, they are ALL put in chifneys. If it becomes necessary, it becomes necessary; I don't like them either but they have a part to play in the right hands and the right way - just be wary of saying 'never'!

Best of luck, I have everything crossed! :-)
 
Thanks everyone... Grace was born in May, so it must have been the end of the month because she is definitely a Gemini!!! She was an absolute angel tonight
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