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Re: [RC] [RC] Our First 100 - Dawn CarrieTodd,
You experience sounds very similar to what happened to my husband's horse at High Roller in Dec. this year. At the 33 mile mark of the 50, we came in, his horse had been eating and drinking great at the prior hold and on trail, in fact we'd just stopped and let the horses graze on some good grass a few miles out of camp on that second loop. We were riding slow, I think only 4 people were behind us. Vetted through great, A or A- on gut sounds, and in fact I could hear his horse's gut sounds as we stood in line, as I was standing right alongside his horse. I led both horses back to the trailer, and almost to the trailer his horse suddenly started to drag. Got to the trailer, and his horse was obviously uncomfortable and pawing. Got my steth, and almost no gut sounds. Back to the vet, who confirmed the quiet guts, gave banamine and something else, and about an hour or 2 later, the horse was ok. Vet said he was not dehydrated. We did have Dennis (the vet) run his blood chemistry while this was all happening, and everything, including elytes, was within normal parameters. We wracked our brains to try and figure out what we did wrong/different, and still haven't figured it out. The horse had never had a problem before, and hasn't since.
I'm like you, I tend to think these things don't happen for *no* reason, but sometimes it's beyond our ability to figure it out. The only thing we could think of to do was a Panacur Purge, as it had been about 7 months since we'd done one; don't know if that was the issue or not, but at least it made *us* feel better to do something.
Reading your account, I don't see anything that raises a red flag...it looks like your mare was doing just fine and taking good care of herself, you weren't riding fast, but something still went wrong. Things like this, and what happened with my husband's horse, serve to remind all of us that it's not just those overriding their horses who can end up on the wrong end of things.
Dawn Carrie
On 4/28/08, Todd Hezeau <maccwall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a sort of technical question/problem/issue, whatever you wish to call it. This may be a bit long but I'm looking for some input. My mare and I attempted our first 100 miler this past weekend at Bluebonnet and I had to pull her at the 55 mile hold. She was doing wonderful as far as the ride went in my opinion and she was full of energy as I was having to hold her back on the first 2 loops to the speed I thought we should be going not the speed she thought she should be going (that has gotten us in trouble before). The first three loops were a 25 mile, and 2 - 15 mile loops with an hour hold after the 25 and 30 minutes after the 2 - 15's. She was eating everything in site and drinking very well. At the holds she would clean her feed pan. On the last loop she seemed to settle down and I wasn't having to fight her to keep her back. She did not drink on the last 3 water stops that we stopped at but was still eating well. We got back to camp and she had
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