Have any of your past rainbow horses left you with anything to remind you of them??

[ILuvCowparsely]

horses

1. My first mare - broken shoulder blade and collar bone ..........................deformed bone and collapsed shoulder now .
2. ID mare - ruptured tendon on thumber.........................................skyers thumb healed wrong cannot holder things like sections hay for more than 40 seconds
3. ID son - Plate in upper arm resulting in fractured humerus........... No disability except odd bits discomfort. Current ID - Slipped on roads landed on my left side .............................
4. Permanent dislocation of the shoulder, cannot raise it up above shoulder height same side as first mare.

Other injuries but not done by horses.

How bout you ?

 

[LeneHorse]

My beloved mare who I lost in August left me with an eye socket held together with wire and permanent facial nerve damage.

I would give anything to have her back with me

 

[webble]

Not entirely his fault but kiki and I crashed into a tree last year and I broke my nose, it's slightly wonky and permanently scarred. I'd give anything to have him back, a friend asked yesterday if i knew then what I know now would I still get him and I so would

 

[Spotherisk]

Harley - some nice scars on the right side of my rib cage where he trod on, one concussion, broken clavicle (all these were in the 90’s.

Tinner - dead area on left buttock/hip, damaged hip which has meant no more riding (too painful), and a second concussion.

 

[Lucky Snowball]

A few broken bones but mostly lovely beautiful happy memories.

 

[dapple_grey]

I lost my boy last year and he left his own legacy… thanks to him my vet practice brought in a rule to say they must wear hard hats to every visit!

Luckily my vet and I can laugh about it now, but he was looking underneath my horse’s belly when he kicked out, catching the vet’s head We were both so shocked at what just happened, as he was usually the quietest, most placid horse.

I actually saw my vet the other day wearing his hard hat and had a good laugh with him about ‘Finn’s Legacy’. Good job he has a sense of humour!

 

[littleshetland]

My beautiful Friesian left me with an ankle that looks more like a fetlock joint all held together with bits of metal....I miss him terribly.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

My last riding horse who is still very much alive back with his previous owner and my now RIP lovely old mare. Between them both squabbling at the field gate with me underneath them both three years ago, I ended up unconscious and have not been able to walk properly since, despite two new hips and lots of stuff to try and fix my damaged back. I had hoped a lower back op would sort me out but they were unable to proceed due to other too risky health issues they stumbled across.

So the two of them have almost finished me off, but can't complain as the rest of my horse ownership was relatively injury free, and I did not follow the usual safety protocol at the gateway, so a good 70 years up until the last bit!

 

[Barton Bounty]

Torn mcl but a lot of amazing memories too

 

[Snowfilly]

A riding school pony - a dear little bay with a white stripe that looked like lightening - left me with a permanent numb patch on my spine when I went over his head and landed on a jump pole. It’s about a 2” circle and it’s been like it 25 years now!

All the other scars and broken bits came from other sports.

 

[Sugarplum Furry]

A lovely scar above my right eyebrow from my arab gelding. He'd had an almighty fright as I was leading him back to the field after being shod. A man on a ladder appeared round the corner of the barn and the arab leapt sideways over top of me, kicking me in the head as he went. Saw stars,went to hospital and got stitched up.

There's a follow up. Three days later Mr SP and I went to local registery office to fill in the forms prior to our wedding and the two lovely clerks there were horrified at my appearance, and poor Mr SP was on the receiving end of some very sharp and dubious looks from them. To be fair apart from the stitches I was sporting a magnificent black eye by then. I did try and explain it was a horse injury but I don't think they believed a word.

 

[Meredith]

In over 60 years of horse ownership I have got off relatively lightly.

Son's pony..loading him on purchase day he ran back and pulled so hard my thumb snapped back. Not broken, not dislocated but I have a fat joint at the base of my thumb which is still 25 years later occasionally painful.

My first pony.. spun 180 degrees and dumped me on tarmac, then trod on my calf. I still have the scar.

A mare I owned in the middle 90's.. Jumped a big rail like a stag and threw me backwards so forcefully a small piece of bone was pulled from the top of my humerus. My arm dangled useless for some months while I worked hard on the physio exercises. Now I can get shoulder pain and referred pain to the elbow if I 'do too much'.

 

[Boulty]

The Irish bog pony left me with a scar that is hidden by my right eyebrow after kicking me in the face.

The Orange one left me with a permanent dent in my right tibia after he rammed my leg into a gate. He also kicked me in the same place years later!

 

[asmp]

A lovely grey Connemara xTB I owned years ago broke my ankle and it was never right afterwards plus had horrid visible broken veins on it. However, one of the present ones has just re broken it so you never know, it might be better this time round, especially as it’s been plated and I also intend to have private physio sessions.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Anyone else feel we are seriously in need of an 'ouch!' emoji?

 

[callybbi]

My first homebred who we sadly lost fairly recently at 6 years old, left me with a broken finger and a broken foot after a big spook in his retirement field knocked me right over. Not his fault a scary dog walker jumped out of the bushes

 

[QuantockHills]

My darling Frodo and horse of a lifetime... PTS at 13 with cushings. 14 stitches to the left side of my face next to my eye.... didnt like some planks and put me in the jump wing! Would ive anything to have him back.

 

[dorsetladette]

My stallion has left me with a scar in my left eyebrow. I don't use brass rosette's on any of my in hand bridles as a result. Left me with some amazing memories and a very good understanding that horses do not fit in pigeon holes and we have to be adaptable to get the best out of them.

 

[Orangehorse]

I scar on my finger where he stepped on my hand after falling at a fence. The stiches split because I was mucking out the stable with fork and broom, but its only visible if I look for it.

Having broken ribs twice, it seems that if I am under the weather they ache, which is strange.

 

[LeneHorse]

I was watching Ski A&E on TV last night and it made me think of this thread.

Thankfully we don't need to pay for our emergency treatment in this country!

 

[AandK]

Wedge fracture of T5 coming off my late mare (said goodbye in Nov '19, she was 29) at Windsor sponsored ride in 1999... I fell off a lot back then

 

[Tarragon]

From the thread title, I thought it was going to be sentimental stuff about horse hair jewellery, or pictures, or the old bridle....
This list of medical damage is rather scary!

I do have my own to add to the list, though really not that bad compared to some! I have to wear my wedding ring on my right hand as a broken knuckle on my wedding ring finger, with a rope being yanked out my hand as a result of a scary electric fence gate, is too big for rings.

 

[Mrs. Jingle]

Oh just remembered! I have an almost immobile neck from breaking two vertebrae many years ago that has long since fused together after launching head first rotationally off a youngster I was breaking in. My hat was an old cork with elastic chin strap and flew off and hit the ground before I did. No wonder I am a bit odd.

 

[Birker2020]

Biggles falling and throwing me off and me incurring damage to my shoulder, neck and being KO'd with a supsected brain bleed. Night in intensive care, four days on a orthaepedic ward.

Bailey slipping on a concrete floor outside the horse walker, straight over my foot, causing permanent numbness to an area on the top of my foot.
Bailey stopping dead after a jump which threw me into the air and I managed to do a 360 degreee turn in the air before landing on my back, which has led to multiple skeletal issues, large prolapsed disc and perm SI issues.
Lari throwing me off which had led to a sore right sided SI and hip issue.

 

[Sealine]

Interestingly all of my permanent injuries have been caused by other people's horses on the ground. Oh, and both of those horses belonged to the same person!

 

[homepaddock]

A total ankle replacement 18 months ago, legacy left by fall from bucking horse over 20 years ago which eventually turned arthritic. Ditto hip replacement due to poor biomechanics caused by same fall. Have got a lovely choker made from that horse's tail hair though, so every cloud! NB sold horse shortly after original accident as took a year to walk again.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

From the thread title, I thought it was going to be sentimental stuff about horse hair jewellery, or pictures, or the old bridle....
This list of medical damage is rather scary!

I do have my own to add to the list, though really not that bad compared to some! I have to wear my wedding ring on my right hand as a broken knuckle on my wedding ring finger, with a rope being yanked out my hand as a result of a scary electric fence gate, is too big for rings.

lol no I think we all have lovely memories of the ones that past. I was thinking they left their mark on me in the way of injuries. So I think of each one fondly though as nothing was done in bad blood all mine accidents not horses fault.

 

[tda]

I watched a program last night about Guy Martin, he was training to do a world speed record downhill on a sled, for training they went to the Cresta Run where athletes train / compete for toboggan and the skeleton etc.
They assembled all these people in a classroom, and gave them a "real danger of death/serious injury talk" not just health and safety, death with diagrams and xrays of injuries received !
Maybe something similar for horseriders...i don't think it would put us off this would it

 

[MrsMozart]

A compression fracture at L2. A bleed on the brain. A cracked elbow.

All the same horse - The Dizzy Blonde - and oh boy do I miss her with all my heart.

 

[oldie48]

The share horse I fell off in January has left me with what looks like a BBL gone wrong, I'm only perky on the left side, the right is still "old lady" saggy! On the plus side he's also given me a waist but only on one side. My own horses just left me with a hole in my heart, lots of memories and a regret that when I had them I still had so much to learn.