Mickyjoe
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One of my horses pulled up at the end of (quite a long) hunter trial course yesterday with a slightly bloody nose. Because the course was very long and because he is not yet proper eventing fit, I took him round in a pretty easy hand canter, but was upset to see the bloody nose. This is the second time this has happened to him. He pulled up after our last PN event last year with a little bit of blood in the same nostril, but was otherwise in great form and made the time quite easily.
I have been reading up as much as possible on nosebleeds and his seems like a slightly odd situation in that he only bleeds from one nostril - both times have been after a long gallop and the amount would hardly fill an egg cup. He is 6 years old and while I struggle to keep his weight down for eventing, is in generally good form and jogged and danced back to the lorry and only sweated slightly.
He does have particularly sensitive skin and is prone to being easily allergic to things - when he was younger he would come up in lumps after rolling in our arena. He has come in from the field the last few days with slight grass glands (he is in a starvation paddock and never lifts his head up while trying to seek out every last minute blade of grass).
I dunno... is it something I should be worried about. I was hoping last year's was a once off, but obviously not to be.
One of my horses pulled up at the end of (quite a long) hunter trial course yesterday with a slightly bloody nose. Because the course was very long and because he is not yet proper eventing fit, I took him round in a pretty easy hand canter, but was upset to see the bloody nose. This is the second time this has happened to him. He pulled up after our last PN event last year with a little bit of blood in the same nostril, but was otherwise in great form and made the time quite easily.
I have been reading up as much as possible on nosebleeds and his seems like a slightly odd situation in that he only bleeds from one nostril - both times have been after a long gallop and the amount would hardly fill an egg cup. He is 6 years old and while I struggle to keep his weight down for eventing, is in generally good form and jogged and danced back to the lorry and only sweated slightly.
He does have particularly sensitive skin and is prone to being easily allergic to things - when he was younger he would come up in lumps after rolling in our arena. He has come in from the field the last few days with slight grass glands (he is in a starvation paddock and never lifts his head up while trying to seek out every last minute blade of grass).
I dunno... is it something I should be worried about. I was hoping last year's was a once off, but obviously not to be.
