Baythoven and Sarah had a major disappointment at the end of the summer. They had qualified for the Arabian Sporthorse Regionals earlier in the year, but as the show got closer it became clear that something wasn't right with the horse. Sarah had taken him to the Region 6 Youth Overnight Camp at Devonwood. Baythoven pulled out all the stops and acted his worst. The clinician ended up riding him at one point, and rumor has it that he nearly unseated her!
After the camp out he continued to act out with plenty of bucking. We called out our chiropractor, but for the first time even this didn't help. The DH and I decided to have a lameness work up done on him. It turns out Bay was having some arthritis issues with his hocks, and he was in pain. We were asking him to use those hocks and he was trying to tell us that he was uncomfortable. It would have been much easier if our horse could talk.
We ended up having his hocks injected. We gave him some time off. He is back in work now and moving beautifully. Our vet tells us the best thing for him is to keep moving. So we will keep showing as long as he seems comfortable.
Sarah already has a list of shows she is interested in for this year, and they will be doing OHSET again too.
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Glad he's feeling a bit better - that sort of bucking is usually due to pain.
ReplyDeleteVideo is lovely. Glad that he is feeling much better.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little worried we might be hitting the age for arthritis in Dandy too. Sorry they missed the regional show but really glad to hear that Baythoven is ok.
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