NR99
Well-Known Member
**Also in NL**
We have a 7yo TB gelding who was bought last Aug to PC event through a well know Eventer.
He had some issues as he did not like XC although was not nappy just refused to go. He would work really well most of the time apart from the odd TB moment. Recently things have started to get worse with his moments becoming quite violent, he appeared very athletic bucking rearing caprioling you name it, we contacted the eventer who had him over there said in the 6 weeks he had been with him had not had any major probs apart from greeness on the XC. He could not believe the naughty boys reaction and said it was pure temper tantrum which he had never seen before. Anyway he got him going forward and gave DD some exercises to do with him. I still was not happy that he was not in pain, as aside from these incidents he was on the whole very good, had back, teeth, saddle and all over vet check but nothing showed. Two weeks ago he completed first unaff ODE with instructor and despite some naughtiness for the first few fences he then settled and she said gave her a lovely feel. As he had been a bit cally in the dressage we decided in her lesson last Fri to use Oxyshot to see if we could use it at ASton unafff that weekend and if it made him focus more, He had a massively violent reaction half way through the lesson and threw daughter off, instructor got on rode him through it then daughter re-mounted and finished the test. However as I came round the corner I spotted he was unlevel behind with left hip lower than other, but as he walked back to the yard he became more level. We called the vet to say what had happened and they came out Monday but by this time he had given himself a curb on near hock and was lame near fore so they said nothing they can do and to take him in for lameness investigation (booked in next Weds) in the meantime don't do much riding and turn him out.
We are not going to ride him at all and my gut feeling is that he should be kept in to give the curb a chance to settle and to hopefully settle the near fore (he has had 72 hour lameness here before) there is no obvious heat. What would you guys do, in or out?
On top of all this all of these things can be related to some vague exclusions on my policy which means they could say they won't pay for any of it, so I wondered does anyone know how much a full bone scan costs?
Sorry it is long and rambling I kind of needed to get it off my chest? Thanks for getting this far
We have a 7yo TB gelding who was bought last Aug to PC event through a well know Eventer.
He had some issues as he did not like XC although was not nappy just refused to go. He would work really well most of the time apart from the odd TB moment. Recently things have started to get worse with his moments becoming quite violent, he appeared very athletic bucking rearing caprioling you name it, we contacted the eventer who had him over there said in the 6 weeks he had been with him had not had any major probs apart from greeness on the XC. He could not believe the naughty boys reaction and said it was pure temper tantrum which he had never seen before. Anyway he got him going forward and gave DD some exercises to do with him. I still was not happy that he was not in pain, as aside from these incidents he was on the whole very good, had back, teeth, saddle and all over vet check but nothing showed. Two weeks ago he completed first unaff ODE with instructor and despite some naughtiness for the first few fences he then settled and she said gave her a lovely feel. As he had been a bit cally in the dressage we decided in her lesson last Fri to use Oxyshot to see if we could use it at ASton unafff that weekend and if it made him focus more, He had a massively violent reaction half way through the lesson and threw daughter off, instructor got on rode him through it then daughter re-mounted and finished the test. However as I came round the corner I spotted he was unlevel behind with left hip lower than other, but as he walked back to the yard he became more level. We called the vet to say what had happened and they came out Monday but by this time he had given himself a curb on near hock and was lame near fore so they said nothing they can do and to take him in for lameness investigation (booked in next Weds) in the meantime don't do much riding and turn him out.
We are not going to ride him at all and my gut feeling is that he should be kept in to give the curb a chance to settle and to hopefully settle the near fore (he has had 72 hour lameness here before) there is no obvious heat. What would you guys do, in or out?
On top of all this all of these things can be related to some vague exclusions on my policy which means they could say they won't pay for any of it, so I wondered does anyone know how much a full bone scan costs?
Sorry it is long and rambling I kind of needed to get it off my chest? Thanks for getting this far