Hope I'm not counting my chickens.

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Our little mare with the mystery lameness that had been diagnosed as spavin was completely sound in flexion tests on Friday. She was sound in canter on the lunge, YIPPEE. She's never been unsound in walk and trot.

Anyway, we took the bull by the horns and put a rider on to canter her under saddle. We haven't tried this for a year, listened to the vets totally and struggled to be patient. This time last year she was sound on the right rein but running like a dog on three legs on the left.

Now she's totally sound on the right rein and vastly improved on the left. She has a funny gait and a little hitch in the actual transtion to trot but she's totally sound by the second stride of trot. Most of all she's cantered with weight on her back and not been sore for a few days after, she's completely sound in walk and trot.

There'll be no more canter for a while. It's back to gradually stressing the joints and hoping that it is spavin and she's on the mend at last.

Thank God! It's now two years since she first pulled up lame. Vets are still baffled but I think the underlying spavin may have been causing her to hold herself awkwardly and that's why she pulled the adductor muscle in her inner thigh.
 
Well done for being so patient, I have just started 12 months field rest with my horse and know how difficult this is!!

Good luck and will keep my fingers crossed for you
 
Doesn't feel like 2 years of patience, more like 20 years of impatient frustration and oh the heartbreak at every set back!!

That's why I won't rush now we've come this far. Had surgical shoes put on today, she was shoeless behind until 3 weeks ago so gradually gone back to being shod. It's been a few weeks in ordinary shoes to get used to the weight and now the raised heels.
 
Hi,

My horse has raised heels in the front for something completely different. But they do seem to have helped him alot and he adjusted very quickly.

Take things slowly but most of all try to enjoy every minute along the way and try not to worry too much!!--easier said than done I know
 
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