Re: sore hocks

["superpat" <superpat@ccountry.net>]

Dear Alicia,

The one thing I know for certain is that you can't give your horse too much time to heal. If he were my horse, there is no way I would even consider riding him 25 miles from what you have described. First off, you don't know the extent of his injury or what the injury is or was, but if he is showing any signs of discomfort, you owe it to him to give him time to get strong. (and there is every probability that the ride vet will not let him start).What you will want to work on developing is a mind set that tells you that no ride is as important as the well-being of your horse.There will always be another ride. I am not sure that I would even be riding him around the block. Tis nobler and righteous to err on the side of caution.

I hope that all will be well.....

Pat

----- Original Message -----

From: Todd Marshall

To: ridecamp@endurance.net

Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:00 PM

Subject: RC: sore hocks

Dear Ridecampers,

 

I had my vet out this week to do a final once-over on my boy before our first 25.I told him during some galloping work I felt a "blow out" of sorts where his back end dropped and did kind of a shuffle.Vet feels he is OK to do 25,but thought his hocks were slightly off and gave him an injection of adequin and legend.BTW,horse is 14 and fit.Farrier saw him today and also thought his one rear right hock was sore and thinks I'll need to get him injected after the ride.What is ridecamps opinion?When he did this blowout the force of it knocked my feet right out of my stirrups-alittle scary!

 

Thanks in advance!

Alicia and Viktor