Caritas
Well-Known Member
My horse has been intermitantly lame for about a year. It is only about 0.5/10 on a circle and very slightly almost never shown up trotting in a straight line on the hard. Took him up to the vets a few months ago, nerve blocked coffin joint, no difference. Nerve blocked navicular, no difference. Nerve blocked whole foot, went sound. The vet then took x rays that showed no abnormalities what so ever. He decided for me to carry on working him and to have him shod slightly shorter and wider in the front and felt that the lameness could be down to bruising in the laminae area. After being shod he was sound for a few months. Now on and off over the last month or so has been lame again, very slight as I said before. Now resting this horse or working this horse doesnt seem to make any difference. Until, I had a lesson on sunday, he felt sound until I asked for medium trot and he felt completely crippled. 8/10 lame, he was not extending with that leg atal but was with the opposite foreleg. This is a horse that has a fantastic medium and finds it very easy. Even throughout all this lameness before it has never really shown up in his medium trot, normally always on a straight line!! The questions that I would like to ask firstly, do you guys think it is related and secondly where do I go from here? I cannot constantly build my hopes up and get him qualified for comps and keep being knocked back by this lameness, although a judge has never picked up on it. I have booked him in for the vets next week for a full investigation but not really sure what to expect, what if they dont find anything specific? Any of you had experience of a lame horse as young as 8 and never got to the bottom of it?? Thanks for reading this post, any info greatly received.