What woud you do..........?

I think this is a difficult situation for you.

It's almost impossible I think for anyone to say exactly when the injury happened. PSD is so tricky to spot and diagnose especially behind.

Becki was very lucky when Spencer saw there was a problem with Grace and many people on here told her she was over re-acting by rushing her off to the vets for something so slight. However it turned out to be exactly the right thing to do.

I genuinely believe many very high caliber riders cannot see or feel subtle hind limb lameness. (Not sure most non-specialist vets can either!!)

As someone else pointed out you had already said that the horse look a while to loosen up and this could well have meant that the damage to the suspensory was already there. It's not acceptable though to not have good and regular communication from the trainer and if the lameness was persisting or deteriorating then they should have contacted you.

My gut feeling is that from the info you have given that your horse probably did have a grumbly suspensory before he went to the trainer but that they shouldn't have continued to ride him if the horse was lame.

I'm not sure that you can do much about what's happened except put it down to experience, sadly.

I have also experienced this from the other side and when I told an owner that I felt her horses behavioural problems were because the horse was subtly lame she chose to take the horse back and give it to someone else who continued to work it give it a few 'sortings out'!! It turned out to have kissing spines and PSD!!
 
As I always say 'a horse has only one way to speak,but do we listen? '
Even when we do it can be a nightmare to find out what is wrong.
I bought my daughter a lovely horse about 10 years ago, very quickly it became nappy and unhappy, we contacted the seller who came to see it and beat it up and said we were too soft with it. A month later I gave my daughter a leg up and the horse exploded breaking her leg.She never blamed the horse and asked me to get the vet to it.He sent me to an equine hospital and they did thermal scans and said it needed treatment on its back..........£1000 later and 6 months on ,the horse was back in light work but still a problem ,we part exchanged him with a dealer we knew and he was turned away for a few months.He started to loose weight and had to be pts ,on post mortem it was found he had liver disease, poor horse,we tried but failed him!
 
Its a very difficult situation I'm afraid, and you probably have not got a leg to stand on.

Thats horses for you. Yonks ago Cowbag was at my trainers during winter term time as I couldn't ride her enough -- and due to my exams, trainer agreed to ride her at an event as she needed the run. Bag then somehow broke a leg in the lorry on the way there. 20k of vets fees later she came right.

Point is I would never have sued T as thats horses for you I'm afraid.

Trainer did give us a free weeks livery and called me every day while horse was at Bristol to check on her progress.

JB xx
 
Well clearly the trainer did notice the lamness because they mentioned it to tophorse when she suggested coming up?

Personally, regardless of whether or not trainer knew what was wrong, he/she knew the horse was lame and carried on riding anyway (against tophorses wishes?) = HIGHLY unprofessional. The injury probably did not happen at trainers yard but that horse should not have continued to be in work, especially with tophorse requesting the horse not to be!
 
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