Middle of season and no horse to ride :( Am I the only one?

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Feeling rather depressed after going to a show today to just spectate as had to withdraw my horse who is lame currently. My other horse did his tendon last year so is retired (bar plodding about the field), so I now have no horse at all to ride right now. I've been lucky enough to ALWAYS have one to ride and compete! Im missing all the best events and the best of the weather. Please make me feel better and say I'm not the only one??
 
Middle of the season and I have a horse to ride but am due to pop in just over a week so I've done nothing that I'd planned for this year. Praying for a mild autumn/winter to make the most
of my maternity leave!
 
I have a horse to ride, but currently in week 13 of box rest/rehab. Currently 30 weeks pregnant and after supposedly calmed (valerian) horses antics last thurs (rear/spin and run away x 2 at some fallen over vegetation on the verge, I attempted a speedy dismount and as my feet hit the floor he rushed forwards and pulled me over, the air was blue :redface3: ) I am now confining myself to walking in the school (did I mention I'm still only doing walk work) which I have to hire as don't have one here, luckily it's only a five min (in hand!!) walk.

Hoping vets visit on fri will mean he can start having some small paddock turnout so the pressure to exercise him and get him out is reduced. Hoping for a reasonable winter so I get him fit, and hopefully compete next summer. Due to three summers of lameness I've not properly competed since 2010.

Sorry that was o long, but yes you have my every sympathy, at least I only have one lame one. Horses are truly rubbish on occasion :(
 
Another who has a lovely horse to ride, but has had to hand the competition reins to her husband as I am "great with child/up the duff"!

Now I am fighting the husband to ride at home, he's so desparate to have a 1.05m debut before aintree amateurs finals.... Which I have a feeling I have lost the ride for :(
 
Im in the same boat! Sold one horse in March cos he wasnt going to event and thought i would concentrate on my other boy and he has broken down. Massive hole in his tendon and will never jump again.
He is now a field ornament for at least a year and i am trying to find something else, without much luck.
So i do know how you feel.
 
Middle of season, horse who had 2 yrs off recovering from DDFT injury finally back sound and fit, both him and myself fully paid up members of BE and haven't had a single run yet.

We managed an Unaff at Moreton, then entered for Swalcliffe BE...cancelled, Bovy BE...cancelled and have now relocated to Sussex and am without transport so still no go! Sorry to hear about everyone's broken horses although time and Dr Green can be a great healer.
 
Oh no!
You're not the only one, my horse was out of work for most of this year and has only been back doing things for 5 weeks - we're having to take it steady to keep an eye on her leg which was the cause of all the problems, but it's so frustrating because I'd planned so many pony parties for us this year and we've missed them all.
Unfortunately she has also "forgotten" everything she learnt last year (when I refused to take her anywhere due to her nutty behaviour) so we're back to square one and anything we attempt in September may not end well!
 
I have one to ride but am desperate to get him out jumping and doing stuff but due to a few mental issues we're still stuck just trying to get basic w/t/c sorted in the school. But at least he is rideable, I've got to count myself lucky.
 
Where are you OP? you're very welcome to come and sit on any of mine :-)

Got a PSG horse and a friend's 4 yr old to sell, 2 hunters back in work and 4 more due back in next week. ... feeling daunted lol! !
 
OP I know the feeling, I finished the 2011 season full of confidence and ready to come out in 2012 at BE100 and have a great time with my horse of a lifetime, however through the winter the her behaviour changed and she became horrible and I hated riding her. Anyway long story short she was diagnosed with Hock and SI arthritis and with treatment we hoped she would come back but she never has and steroid injections dont seem to work and she wont jump at all, at least I can still hack her!

I've been offered horses to jump but its not her booo!!!
 
I am in the same boat my event horse after a cracking first half of the season has damaged the oblique ligament in his pastern, currently on 13 weeks box rest with shockwave and then another scan to see how we go forward. Gutted as he has been placed in every intermediate this year and was going to try and get my advanced qualifications for next year. He is my horse of a lifetime and I will never be able to afford another horse of his calibre so really preying he comes right, vets not ruled it out so crossing everything and following all vet instructions to the letter. I can't afford two on a DIY livery yard so riding what I can. :(
 
I have a shiny, bouncy, outwardly perfectly healthy horse, working the best he ever has, who I now have to rest because a blood test last week showed his liver enzymes to be high. Frustrating because he is fit, sound and bounding around his field and the ground is perfect at the moment for fast work and getting him out competing.
 
same story here - mare came back from loan and completely broke down - both hind suspensories,hock changes,si damage,kissing spines and supraspinious ligament damage - she was put to sleep two weeks ago and the giraffe has not been ridden since the 17th January due to many thing wrong with his fore feet - should be off to Rockley in sept so may have a horse to ride next year but this year has been a total total write off
 
This time a few months ago I had two! Lost my mare in May due to a kick in the field, then exactly a week later my gelding had a freak accident, we gave him nearly three months but sadly he was PTS last week due to complications with the injury. So, no, you aren't the only one with s****y luck!!

Edited to add - I am lucky enough to be stabled at a stud where they have other horses for me to ride - but it's not really the same.
 
Nope you are not the only one. Horse is currently laid up from a kick which unbeknown to me damaged his bone and because he was sound I carried on as normal. Unfortunately this has meant a bleed has occurred inside the bone and he is now off work. I'm hoping he will be back up and running and out again in the winter but very frustrating as he was on top form, I had some 4 day shows pencilled in and was hoping to move up a level un the winter. I am very, very grateful it’s not worse but feel guilty that I didn’t know the bone had been damaged.
I wouldn’t mind but he had last summer off with stifle investigations and came back from that absolutely brilliant, starting to think he doesn’t like working in the summer!
 
Aww this is a really sad post :( makes me realise how lucky I am! I have a completely mental 138 ex-bsja pony if anyone is small, in Leicester and fancies a challenge?!
 
Aww poor ponies everyone:(.

I'm the opposite, horses finally starting to really work well and in a partnership, producing the best work yet and I've broken my collarbone! So our BE debut is cancelled as well as rather too many other outings than I'd like...
However very glad its me that is broken not the ponies. Luckily Topaz is my mum's and she has even agreed to do some schooling, which is normally my job, and one of the girls at the yard seems smitten with Doodle as she can ride her as well as her kids whilst her horse is on box-rest, Doodle loves children :).

Fingers crossed for speedy recoveries everyone.
x x x
 
Snap, mine has been written off by vets. Will never event again. He's only 9. I can't believe how much money people want for the horses that have done nothing and are in the field with no shoes on!
 
Nope, you definately aren't the only one.

Lost my lovely kind 6 year old with twisted gut in New Year. (New Years Eve night was driving him to the vet, op New Year morning, twisted again by 8 January).

Eventually persuaded myself to buy a replacement in May, even though my heart not really in it. Ended up with very sweet natured 4 year old from dealer. Very snotty for 2 weeks, then got cast and was lame for 4 weeks. Went off to be ridden on for 5 weeks where he was absolutely fine (I did visit). Got him home, had the week off work to play around, hack, start jumping etc, but very sore in back, lame and grumpy. Vet suggested physio first, who can only come next week. I suspect there may be more of a problem, but pessimism is my middle name.

So no, you are not alone. Had more fun on a mechanical bull at a local show last week, than I have had with horses this year.
 
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