Is she lame or unbalanced (video)

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Looking at my mare in the school, would you say this is lameness or the fact she has no bit and is unbalanced (due to jaw fracture in May). I think she's lame on the nearside fore, but I have had differenct opinions, wondered what you guys think? By the way, we aren't riding her like this, as she's been on box rest etc since then. Please no CC on my riding because I haven't ridden properly for a few months. Thank you

 
Lame, left foreleg.
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Definately lame, although couldn't tell 100% which foreleg from the video so loathed to comment on that!

Assuming this video was from before you started box resting her, what has been diagnosed?
 
We got the vet out the next day and when she was trotted up she seemed completly sound. But when he did the flexion test she was slightly lame. Since then the lameness has been intermittent, and we found some sore skin on the fetlock joint of the leg in question, and wondered whether she has a bit of mud fever. So its either something goin on on the inside, or soreness on the outside, we are a bit baffled. The vet said the next step is x-rays.
 
So she's only lame on a surface? I would suspect some sort of soft tissue damage..

Good luck - let us know how you get on.
 
Let us know how you get on, I've been there myself with a horse that was intermittantly lame and know what a nightmare it is, but sounds like you are doing the right thing folowing your vets advise.
 
stranger1612, thank you very much for putting us in the foot direction, got a different farrier out today, and seems there are lots of problems going on there, loads of bruising on the inside, so we may have found out at last what the lameness could be, fingers crossed, won't be an instant cure, but hopefully a couple more trips from the farrier and she will be sound.
 
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