Hi everyone…I am stressing over my girl. Vet has already been called and is coming out next week.
8 year old OTTB - evented up to Training last year but still green. Have had her for about 10 months. She was living in a field for a year before I got her. She was thin with bad mud fever when she came to me. She is healthy and fat now.
Have had saddle fit issues the last few months, combined with the weather - she has had about 3 weeks solid off and some light riding in between. Before the saddle fit issue she was going pretty well - just working on flat work, improving connection, transitions, etc. Canter transition has always been awful, but slowly getting better. I am now questioning whether the saddle is really issue or if there is something else going on.
She has had 2 acupressure and 1 chiropractor appointment since January. She had a bad abscess blow out by mid hoof wall on the left hind in December and my farrier cut out the area where it grew out during her trim before her last trim, which was last week.
Since the weather has improved and I am still waiting for her new saddle, I have started lunging her to get her back into shape. No saddle or side reins - just the bridle. Cantering to the left she will canter about two strides then start bunny hopping, cantering with both legs together and what looks like reluctance to put her left foot down. Almost looks like she will put her fetlock down. She then bucks or kicks out and throws her head in the air and takes off or goes back to trot.
She does this nearly every time to the left and once in a while to the right. Her walk and trot are very fluid and sound. She is slightly downhill and can sometimes stand a little camped under.
Anyone experience something similar? I am hoping it is just the abscess in that foot coming back, but I have never seen this type of thing before.
