Rearing on left turn

Clodagh

Clodagh

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Friend has a nice showjumper, a bit quirky but that made him affordable. Nice horse to do, appears to have no malice in him at all.
He does have a clicky stifle on the near side, occasionally when tied up if he is fidgeting it locks and he sort of squats to unlock it. He has never been the easiest horse on the left rein but now has progressed, in the ring, to rearing and bouncing if asked to turn left into a jump. He will then shoot forward and jump it. He is usually fine on the right rein, but at Arena this week did progress to doing that while turning right as well on the last day.
A lady that helps her said she wouldn't bother getting it investigated. We are not sure why? Because it is not fixable? I feel, as it is really getting her down, that a full investigation would at least be a start. I am sure they can trim something to stop it happening? He is fit and correctly muscled. He is insured. Rossdales are fairly close and she would ask for an immediate referral there rather than spending money with the local vets.
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Needs proper investigation. Could be anything from tight muscles to full blown kissing spine. Whatever it is, that horse is saying something hurts in no uncertain terms.
 
FfionWinnie said:
If he's insured there is nothing to lose is there. What's the point of insurance if you don't use it for this sort of thing.
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It is affecting what she wants to do not forgetting the horse is probably in some pain or at least discomfort, to say it is not worth investigating is rather short sighted and not fair on the horse or rider, whatever the result, even if nothing can be done to "fix it" having a diagnosis can allow some appropriate care which may help even if it is only short term.
 
Well I would not be keeping competing on a horse saying no .
I would get a work up to identify the problem and take it from there it's unethical to jump a horse in the situation you describe .
 
I do agree with you all, and can't work out why this (very experienced) lady would say don't bother. We are meeting up today so I will make suggestions for sooner rather than later.
 
Clodagh said:
I do agree with you all, and can't work out why this (very experienced) lady would say don't bother. We are meeting up today so I will make suggestions for sooner rather than later.
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Possibly because she fears the worst but that is no reason to not look into it, the owner just needs to know that it may be serious and that until she knows what it is she cannot move on anyway, the horse has been coping but it is getting worse you cannot just keep going until it breaks completely.
 
Clodagh said:
I do agree with you all, and can't work out why this (very experienced) lady would say don't bother. We are meeting up today so I will make suggestions for sooner rather than later.
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Are you sure she did not mean 'save your money because a work up is not going to find anything good just stop jumping the horse' because although it's not what I would do but it's a way forward some people might take .

Meanwhile if I were you I would be advising your friend to stop jumping the horse and seek advice from a vet who works in this sort of area .
Because the horse is showing very visible symptoms of pain a basic work up which should not cost to much ,is likely to indentify an idea of what your friend is dealing
with.
 
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