What to do tomorrow...?

[arizonahoney]

I was jumping today and the pony misjudged his stride before a jump (have got frame by frame photographs showing what went wrong) and we both ended up on the ground; this was in a school with a nice deep rubber surface, which was a mercy.

He was a bit shaken but trotted up sound afterward - I rode him back home at a walk and then cold hosed the leg that had taken much of the impact.

I will go and check him before work tomorrow, but I imagine that he will be stiff and achy to some degree. What's important in the next few days? This is the first - and hopefully last - time this has happened to me, so it's a bit of a blank.

 

[glenruby]

Would agree with the hand walk and the trot up but would give him a d ay or two in the field instead of working. If he does appear very stiff in the morning a sachet of bute might help him out - but only if he needs it.

 

[arizonahoney]

Thank you, both. I really hope it's nothing serious, he's such a genuine sort I would hate for him to be in any pain