Missy update - career rethink

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As some of you may have caught the tail end on another thread Missy had her x-rays 7 weeks after she kicked out at a concrete fence and fractured her pastern bone. The fracture is almost more obvious now than it was (reminds me, must remind vet to email me the x-rays), although the good news is the bit of bone above the fracture hasn't floated off.

As these things turn out I was already toying with the idea of putting her in foal and then depending how good the foal was leave her as a broodmare or possibly bring her back into work once weaned. Since then some friends of friends have offered me a nice but extremely green (think just backed 4yo) rising 7yo mare, so the x-rays kind of gave me the push to make a decision about her short and medium-term future. Last weekend I went to a stallion show which was geared towards event breeders (a rarity here!) and I approached the organiser afterwards to see if he'd be interested in having Missy on a broodmare loan seeing as she has such fab event breeding (by Mill Law out of an Advanced mare). We'll thrash out the details this weekend but I'm hopeful this is something that could work for everyone, as I don't have the money to get involved in breeding another mouth to feed at the moment, but to sell her now we'd get very little as she is yet to prove she can produce the goods. I even managed to persuade the stud owner he'd like to sponsor this week's video!

On this week's video I discuss the above and then there's footage of some of the stallions we saw, Jah Diamant was just gorgeous, but is probably too small for her sadly. My friend had an absolute ball riding Royaldik for the show, she literally had to be dragged of him at the end ;). And, just because we can't have a video without William, at the end there is footage of him putting the vet's advice to 'have fun' into practice most thoroughly :rolleyes:. http://www.madsen-equestrian.com/
 
Loving William's mud overcoat and Missy certainly has a fantastic choice of fathers for her baby - glad it's not me having to make the choice for her! The new one sounds exciting - look forward to meeting her soon :).
 
LJR - There were a few I would consider potentials, maybe go and see again away from the "show" atmosphere, however if we go for the broodmare loan it won't be my choice ;-). The stud owner is understandably keen to use one of his own, and I think there is a lot to like about Lord Britten Z, he is growing on me!

Measles - Yes, as the vet who has treated her throughout (not my normal one as it was an emergency when the whole drama started, but a local lady who also show-jumps at a decent level) pointed out, as long as we are sensible for the next few weeks with continued box rest then re-introduce her carefully to turnout it will give her over a year to heal, and I won't be tempted into rushing her back into work. As she was a pretty sharp person she wouldn't be suited to happy hacking (though who knows what having a foal will change!), so if she does come back into work at some stage it would have to be properly.

Goldenstar - the new one is a bit interesting, have only ridden her a couple of times and am just treating her like a proper baby. However keep hearing snippets more about her history and think I will need to keep my wits about me! I'm not sure she'll be a superstar, but she is a nice type.

Rosiefan - hand on heart (and def not head!) I'd have picked the palomino pony dressage stallion, he was like a ray of sunshine passaging round the arena! And would probably end up with a sharp, un-palomino, 14.3hh or something equally un-useful! I did a full report on all the boys shown in Breeding if anyone wants to read the lot.
 
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