Mare with 50-50 chance of survival - update!

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So daughter and her boyfriend took mare back to vet hospital for second remedial shoeing. If you didn't read my earlier thread, Cushings TB mare had laminitis in all four feet fifteen months ago. Remedial farrier (of my choice, not vet hospital's farrier) took so much off her soles that he exposed soft tissue. Vet fuming. Months later, went sound, returned to usual farrier (who tended to leave toes long) but, over the months, left her toes so long that her pedal bones rotated, and, because her soles were so thin (thanks to remedial farrier) landed us in the situation where she had a 50-50 chance of survival. Daughter has worked hard with her, religiously packing her feet daily with sugar and iodine, then cutting cardboard hoof-shaped "boxes" and taping them on with duck tape, as advised by vet hospital farrier. She has worked tirelessly with her mare, each day spending about an hour and a half sorting the sugar and iodine, which was a tedious task, I can confirm!

Anyway, mare's strides gradually became long and easy - made us realise how "stodgy" she'd been before!

Took her back to Newmarket on Friday and farrier was SO pleased with her - and said he was so proud of my daughter! Told her how he tells owners what to do with their horses' feet and, as they lead their horses away, he can almost see the bullet going into the horse's head because owners can't be bothered to put in the hard work!

Mare is looking fantastic and hopefully can be ridden again soon!

And, the icing on the cake, the foal I bred from her almost six years ago won his first point-to-point weekend before last - his fourth outing! An old friend now owns him, and there was a photo and short article about him in H&H last week - and daughter had a mention, ha ha!
 
Thank you, yertis! She looks amazing and is SO full of herself! My daughter's a complete pain in the ar$e but she has worked SO hard with her mare! I knew the vet hospital farrier would be pleased with her progress just by the way she was striding out! She is such a special horse!
 
Wonderful update, big well done to your daughter - even I'm proud of her and we have never met :)

I remember the original thread but didn't post on it, just read it. Keep us posted :)
 
Thank you, heebiejeebies! Daughter is on a high because (a) mare is doing so well, and (b) because of the second time her name has been in H&H!! (Had Letter of the Week about four years ago! AND we had to chase for the champagne!!!)
 
So daughter let mare out today for the first time in months! She's been out daily in the arena for the last six weeks and also turned out in the small "laminitis paddock" but today she was turned out properly (as we were told we could do, for short periods). She galloped SO fast and, as she approached the end of the paddock, she appeared to gain speed.........she couldn't stop in time, turned sharply at the fence and BANG - she went down, rolled onto her back with her legs in the air (glad I wasn't there to see her - I would have freaked out!)! Got up and trotted off, sound. She settled afterwards, thankfully, and we put a Danilon in her feed tonight I case she's a bit sore/stiff tomorrow. But she was sound!!! Looks amazing! Just love that tough old(ish) mare!
 
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