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

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ILuvCowparsely

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  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 ?
 
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!
 
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! ☺️
 
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.
 
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.
 
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'.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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. 😵‍💫
 
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.
 
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.
 
Tarragon said:
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.
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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.
 
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 🤔
 
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.
 
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