Thoroughbred injuring self in field

[J_sarahd]

My new thoroughbred keeps coming in with little scrapes on her hind legs, usually around her hocks. I know that TBs are thin-skinned and cut themselves on even the littlest of things.

I think she’s cutting herself by rolling/lying down as there’s nothing in her field that looks like it’ll get her. They are all superficial wounds and nothing too scary.

Is there any way of basically stopping this? Or at least reducing the chances of her coming in with scraped legs?

 

[Squidge_94]

Hock boots. My 3yo tb always seems to catch his hocks, but he's huge and very clumsy! These just provide a bit of protection

 

[milliepops]

Welcome to TBs ?
My ex racer could injure himself on a blade of grass. I'd try some soft hock boots with yours. Mine would clonk himself with his own feet and had old scars that would constantly reopen so wore sausage boot anklets in the field ?

 

[scats]

I had an ISH who was pretty much all TB in his breeding. He was an absolute nightmare in a field, particularly in a herd environment. I eventually moved him to a yard where he could he out with just my horses, though even there he still managed to fall over his own feet on getting up from a roll and slide his leg open down to the muscle fibres, which required stapling.
At previous yard he chipped a bone in his front leg, ran through a woodland in the field and shredded his back so badly that it took 4 months to recover, stood on a nail and narrowly avoided a major disaster, came in most days with cuts and knocks, lost on average a shoe a week. He was a liability!

 

[Barton Bounty]

Is she shod?
BB once cut his own hock with his shoe while rolling! ???

 

[J_sarahd]

Is she shod?
BB once cut his own hock with his shoe while rolling! ???

Yeah she is shod in front

 

[Barton Bounty]

Yeah she is shod in front

She could be just catching herself , buy a pair of soft boots for all round and hopefully that will stop it

 

[planete]

Just rolling on the hard ground can do it.

 

[J_sarahd]

She could be just catching herself , buy a pair of soft boots for all round and hopefully that will stop it

Which would you recommend? I worry about overheating her legs!

 

[milliepops]

Just rolling on the hard ground can do it.

Yup, mine would scuff his hips when rolling, he wasn't smart enough to roll anywhere with good grass cover and always chose pebbley areas ??‍

 

[Barton Bounty]

These are good for summer and neoprene for winter,

 

[Squeak]

Which would you recommend? I worry about overheating her legs!

I'm not sure boots will help if she's catching her hocks? I'd be more inclined to go with the hock boots that some other have recommended.

With the ground being so hard I'd guess she's not rolling on grassy patches and stones/ hard ground are catching them. If the ground softens up a bit, that might hopefully help too.

 

[J_sarahd]

I'm not sure boots will help if she's catching her hocks? I'd be more inclined to go with the hock boots that some other have recommended.

With the ground being so hard I'd guess she's not rolling on grassy patches and stones/ hard ground are catching them. If the ground softens up a bit, that might hopefully help too.

That makes sense. They’re not worrying scrapes, just a bit annoying if anything. It seems to only have been an issue in the last week or so.