Hunters bump - help needed asap!!

I'm Dun said:
I dont think that is whats going on here. The horse has a very sloping croup down to a low set tail. I cant see any sort of actual hunters bump.

OP if he retired sound at 13 and has been out of racing working hard and still stayed sound and you want to do less work, he's a really good bet for a low budget horse
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Thank you, that’s very reassuring. I just saw him and love him to be honest. He just needs some weight on him. Seems comfortable and has had a chiro assess him and his feet were great etc. Does throw his head up before a canter in the school but then goes nicely
 
I'm Dun said:
I dont think that is whats going on here. The horse has a very sloping croup down to a low set tail. I cant see any sort of actual hunters bump.

OP if he retired sound at 13 and has been out of racing working hard and still stayed sound and you want to do less work, he's a really good bet for a low budget horse
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I’d agree but for the fact, and I can’t really see where op has said this but I’m the other replies £9500 isn’t low budget
Is that correct op? That’s a lot for an ex racer a year out that’s not done anything massive imo
 
Let me tell you about a horse I bought with a 'Hunter's Bump' - with one side slightly higher than the other. Ex NH racer. Purportedly done a bit of everything. Now, I wasn't new to horse ownership; I've been riding since I was old enough to sit up in a basket chair on the back of a Shetland pony, and was eventing at a pretty high level when Roads and Tracks were still a thing.

That horse behaved beautifully when I went to try him. And was sweet as pie in the stables. I was told he had just been too slow, and he'd done some RoR low level dressage (and won) and then his owner got pregnant and he was thrown in the field for 6 months. I bought him. With a vetting but no x-rays.

6 months later he would come out of the stables waving his feet in my face. Things started to go 'off' when I started to work him a little bit more than an Intro test and started to put some pole work and cavaletti work into our sessions. His first sign of 'misbehaviour' was when I was out hacking and he bronked in the middle of the village green. I put that one down to it being very busy and kids flying about everywhere. That and he didn't like the farrier very much. It shouldn't have bothered him, he was an ex racehorse used to crowds. I knew he needed muscle building; I schooled appropriately, and the odd lunging session. He would sometimes nap on the right rein. He bucked occasionally when asked to canter. I believed, to start off with, that it was just him being a bit unbalanced. Then one day, about 3 months in he bronked again. And he bronked for England, Harry, George, and the bloody dragon. I saw the look in his eye. I knew if I came off, he'd try to kill me.

It transpired that that bump was the result of a rotational fall that no one had remembered to tell me about. The subluxation in that bump was huge, it rolled almost over the other side. And, on post mortem, that bump was the only sign of an ill-healed hip fracture with ligaments thinner than threads holding the bones together, just. He was in so much pain, he became aggressive.

I'm not suggesting this is the case with all horses with hunter's bumps. It's just a cautionary tale. Personally, I wouldn't go near a 13 yo ex hunt racer that has just finished racing with a barge pole.

And YCBM and others on your other thread have it absolutely bang to rights.
 
thatsnotmyname said:
You can get a high croup, roach back or goose back.
Which is naff confirmation.

Hunters bump is an SI issue. Adhesions forming in the ligaments around the SI joint, which I would hazard a guess is the case cos its back end looks weak.

It does look marginally better in the first photo. Would probably want to see some vids of it moving.
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Agreed, though it's usually at least as much posture as conformation. Lengths of bones are conformation, angles of bones are so often posture.

I'm Dun said:
I dont think that is whats going on here. The horse has a very sloping croup down to a low set tail. I cant see any sort of actual hunters bump.

OP if he retired sound at 13 and has been out of racing working hard and still stayed sound and you want to do less work, he's a really good bet for a low budget horse
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A sloping croup to a low set tail is highly likely to be the pelvis stuck in posterior tilt and not just "one of those things"/conformation. Might be fixable, might be easily fixable, and many horses will perform for years with this level of dysfunction, but it IS dysfunction IMO and could be a sign of more serious issues.
 
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