lei85
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Hi I've not posted before so here goes....I recently brought an ex race horse he is perfect in every way BUT I have just found out after tracing his past trainer that he had a very serious injury which resulted in him breaking his pedal bone and damaging the coffin joint. He was on box rest for a year and apparently his last X-ray showed it had healed well and was as good as it was going to get but he wasn't sound enough to race again. Now according to the trainer he was able to do ridden work again with appropriate shoes (heartbar) on fronts but that is about all I know, I do have the vets number who treated him and will call them as soon as they are open to get full information and records sent to my vet and will also be getting an X-ray done to make sure no damage has been since as the girl before me had no idea about his injury so didn't take the right measures ie shoes and jumped him and apparently had no lameness issues. Basically I'm just hoping to hear some success stories really as I originally brought him to hunt/event, he is the most wonderful gentle giant so loving and kind hearted I'm really not that bothered about not being able to do that as long as we can still have fun together hacking ect. Sorry for the long post just hoping someone else might have had something similar. He is about to turn 9 17"2 and it happened 4 years ago.