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I asked someone to trot Grace up for me this morning as she was walking out completely normally on the hard surface again. A lady on the yard trotted her for me and the lameness is now very very slight on the hard surface (even less so than it was yesterday). There were a few strides when she did nod a little, but she can do this when she is not trotting forwards (which she wasn't really because it was raining and she HATES the rain
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I am going to trot her up again tonight, but I have cancelled the lameness work up on Monday as she has improved so much since Wednesday morning and has not had any pain relief at all since then so nothing is masking the pain.

Do you think I have done the right thing?

She is still completely sound in the school so if she trots up as sound as she did this morning on the hard surface I am thinking of working her long and low in walk tonight just to get her doing something. Her back legs have swollen a little since being in all of the time (she had lympangitis last winter due to mud rash) so I would like to just do something with her to get her legs down a little. If I lunged her or walked her around in hand in the school she would squeal and then go bananas and I would rather keep her in a quiet walk for 15-20 minutes by being on board so to speak.
 
I think you have done the right thing - yes.

As for trotting her up tonight, don't. Just leave her quietly get on with it over the weekend. Trot her up on Monday, and I bet she'll be sound.

The farrier sounds as if he's done a really good job.
 
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I think you have done the right thing - yes.

As for trotting her up tonight, don't. Just leave her quietly get on with it over the weekend. Trot her up on Monday, and I bet she'll be sound.

The farrier sounds as if he's done a really good job.

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Do you know, I am very impressed with him... more so because he is a young farrier but was incredibly quiet around her (she responds better to that), asked to see her trotted up etc and seems to have helped the lameness issue too.

I think I am seeing the lameness far more than an outsider would because I am looking for it so hard... this morning I did see a few steps of 'lameness' but then she was not trotting forwards properly for those strides due to trying to imitate a banana to avoid the rain
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That all sounds really positive, I know it is very tempting to keep trying a trot up to see if they have improved but maybe, as others have said, give her a few more days....if your weather is like mine she will be banana like anyway as it is persisting down still. Will you need to change your farrier now or has she set her straight for now? Fingers crossed she continues to get better.
 
Personally hun i wouldnt keep trotting her up on hard ground. I would just keep her on box rest until monday, just walk her out in hand twice a day and leave it at that. Im sure by monday then she will be fine xx
 
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That's the problem... I am struggling to walk her out in hand
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She is a bit of a loon and spends the time leaping about.

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Can't you stick her out????
 
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best walk her in the school in hand then - if she does get free it's on the soft ground and so less likely to do any harm

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Definitely not... she gets sooooo excited in the school and the squeeling is most strong in there
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She is the same when ridden, but I have a lot more control and can keep her in walk and quiet when I am on her as opposed to walking her around.
 
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That's the problem... I am struggling to walk her out in hand
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She is a bit of a loon and spends the time leaping about.

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Can't you stick her out????

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The vet said no turnout... plus there is a new mare gone out in the field since, and I just know there will be a lot of flying about which I don't want to risk. Also, sometimes she can be a bugger to catch, so would hate to have her running around and not be able to bring her in.

She will go out alone, but whether she will when she has been in for over a week is another thing... plus the mares are out until quite late, by which time I have usually been and gone
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Oh for my own yard
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I don't know what to do really for the best... I don't fancy giving her any sedalin because of the risk of her tripping again. But don't want to add extra weight on (ie. me) if she is still sore on it.
 
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