Wonderful! Glad everything went so well…
Glad it went well! 
how’s your horse now any update?
I would definitely remove it. With an experienced surgeon it’s very low risk. We do xrays of all our young ones before we start them and last year had a chip removed. He did great and sold to a wonderful home a few months later. I have also bought horses from overseas that had had chips removed and they did fine. Passed our PPE and later PPE to resell after competing 4’+ in US. If you plan to keep the horse I would remove it. Good luck! ???
Horse is still just fine as can be! He’s grown into a talented and extraordinarily handsome 8 year old. He is sound schooling 2nd level dressage and jumping 3’3"-3’6" courses. He is on his third season eventing at the novice level, he made his USDF 1st level debut last year, and is entered in the KDA Annual Dressage Show (assuming he behaves himself enough to be allowed to show in his training 2 test) and the IEA N3D later this month. One of these days I will grow a pair and move him up to training level eventing.
He has some mental demons and is a bit of a Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde horse, so the 2nd level dressage can be interspersed with weeks of going back to training level and re-schooling basics. Last year we had to tackle some severe jumping demons when I made an ill-fated attempt at moving him up to training and scared the crap out of both of us, but he’s confidently and cleanly completed two recognized novice HTs so far this year. He can score as high/low as a 68 at USDF training and 29 at USEA novice at recognized events, or as low/high as his recent 50 at USDF training and the mid-40s he’s pulled at USEA novice at recognized events (he was epically AWFUL at his last recognized dressage show, which is why I mentioned he may not be allowed to show at KDA). The pieces are there for a lovely horse, but he’s a bit of a late bloomer so I think I’ve just got to be patient while I wait for them to fall into place.
