Wierd lameness - any ideas?

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Wee fella went lame today, but a bit stumped as to why.
warmed up in walk fine for a few minutes and started some trott work. he felt a bit stumbly. Worked a bit further and it felt like he was trying to strike off in canter. thought he might be feeling a bit bright so put him up into canter no problems. went back to where we started and was even more stumbly on the transition to trott.

Then in trott and only on the left rein he hopped on his back outides leg every 3 or so paces.

Got off and had a feel around. No swelling or heat in any tendon.
No heat in the hooves . He was happy to let me feel all around all the structuures of his legs and showed no signs of discomfort for anything I moved or squeezed.

Happy to articulate fetlock, hock and stifle.

trotted up in a straight line on hard surfaface.

On the lunge I could see a kind of stringholty type action in his back right hoof when it was on the outside, on the other rein he skimmed the school surface but was other wisehappy.

He is 5 1/2 yrs and did quite a bit of work last weekend, I'm hoping it's just a tweek , but it looks very odd.

Hamstrings are not tight.

Any ideas?
 
Can;t comment on acorns but our warmblood developed a stringhalty action suddenly at the start of the year, the vet came out & was stumped, her only possible thought was shivers/wobbles but she agreed to let a physio check before we went down the route of x-rays etc as he showed a slight dip when she tested his back. The physio came & had a good look at him & it turned out the left side of his back was in spasm from just behind his saddle right down into his hamstrings, 3 treatments later & a month off ridden work & he was fine, we just need to keep an eye on him now & make sure his back doesn't seize up again.

That might be a complete red herring for you as you couldn't tell there was a problem with ours unless you watched him walking but it might be worth getting his back checked out.

Hope you find out what's wrong & get him sorted soon
 
I would think he's tweaked something whilst in the field. If he was mine I would call vet for permission for a Mctimmony chiropractor or a physio to cine out and take it from there.
 
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