After our wonderful ride at Long Mynd there was something not right about the way Estrid was moving. At the end of May she had an accident involving a lot of bucking, legs being tied together by straps and running through a few fences. Her back right was really sore, as was her back. When we got back to training she felt great, we both had a great time at Long Mynd but in the week following I just knew something wasn’t quite right with that back right.
So I decided to scrap the rest of the season give her 6 weeks off and then re-assess. Well that time has come and we made our way to the vets who even said that they were surprised to see her at the lameness clinic as she looked really good, but when you know something’s not right you just know how your horse should move.
They found a few incidental findings in the right hind that may or may not be related but still feel that the issue is higher up and quite likely a muscle strain. So now we have a couple of weeks left of her holiday and we’ll start doing walk work again and see how we go. Everyone is pretty confident she’ll be fine and I’m pretty sure I just bought her back from her accident too quickly and too soon. So we’ll take it extra slow this time and hopefully be ready to start pre-season training in full swing!
Beth Endurance 