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On day 20 of the Marquis I noiticed a decided improvement. The 'hangdog' 
deamenor  vanished. he is now moving 'purposefully' and with "rhythm'.The 
hesitnacy is gone and the lowered head. He shoved me with head rubbing the 
last two days(normal for him) he had just been lightly 'touching' me while 
sicker. I free lounged him today for about 10 minutes on a 60 ft.ring.He 
moved with good cqadence at a trot. I counted as his front, then his rear 
landed. No delay, nice even rhythm. But; he doesn't overeach a footfall plus 
3 inches like he used to (for a short/necked ,shortbacked horse,you can only 
overreach so far). He just is coming up to his front feet. He also has  
some" hitch "in that right hip, though less pronounced than when I watched 
him about 5 days ago. My daughter/trainer watched him lounge on a line 
yesterday and said he was shortstriding on that leg. Today I thought he was 
just plain short striding, maybe more on that leg than the other.
   The vet and I have decided to run  3 tests and correlate them (the tap), 
Cnr and I can't recall the others. he says that will tell him weather we 
should do another 29 days. But he had said if he "improved' he probably 
didn't need another round. Now at the time I thought ,"how could he improve 
in such a short span, when I have heard it may take a year or more to 
rehab?", and in the research they said at 118 days 70% improved one 'grade ' 
or better.(Bayer)
  I am just amazed at the difference. There must be a diffference from 
symptoms from active 'inflamation" and residual nerve damage.
It started raining today and he 'ran and bucked'; to come down to the barn. 
Now I have never seen him buck(only felt it ) in 4 years.He is back to 
trying to run off the 2 year olds at dinner time. I haven't seen any 
stumbling lately(when I watched).
  I am hopefull he may now recover completely or with very minor 
descernable damage.
  I'll pass on the vets assesement when i get it.
  I think I will be doing lots of riding in that ring at a walk between 
Honey and Rascal, I may start to  grow at an angle :}  Laurie and 
Rascal/Honey /Scout

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