Horse stumbles occasionally in the hind legs during trot?

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@beowulf

If you’re talking about the video I posted, during the change of rein there was a rider/horse miscommunication. Horse thought it was time for a walk break.

That channel has other videos of the horse too, ridden with and without contact.

You’re welcome to come out and ride him and show him what correct contact is. :winkgrin: Generally, for videos taken for vets for soundness eval (which this one is) you don’t want too much contact. The horse in the video has been seen by a few vets, diagnosis is still in the air.

I just saw this quote since the thread has been bumped up. From your tone I’m guessing that’s you in the video. Why should it be necessary for me to ride your horse and show him correct contact? Taking lessons with a good trainer is key. And you know, even when riding for a vet eval, different levels of contact should be used so the vet team can watch how the horse goes on a long rein, on correct contact and collected to extended.

I hope your horse is doing better too. It is great the OP found the solution for her horse.

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@Chestnut_Mare

Update

So my coach suggested we get a second opinion on my horse’s hooves. Had the back shoes pulled and trimmed and her feet look terrible. They are “bullnosing” and the white line was terribly stretched. She also has thrush for the first time since I’ve owner her. Lightly lunged her later in the day and she is not tripping at all. Trimmer said that the shoes were on super tight.

This morning she came trotting to the fence to get her hay and was quite feisty. The past few weeks she just kinda lumbered around. In a week we are going to pull the front shoes too and get some hoof boots to help with the transition.

Not sure if this is going to solve the whole problem but I feel that it is a good start.

Sounds like a very likely source of the problem and a fixable one too. Fingers crossed for you!

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@Chestnut_Mare

UPDATE - we pulled her back shoes and she has not stumbled/tripped once! There is a lot more power from behind in the trot now too.

The shoes seemed to be on too tight and she had severe thrush under the shoes.

Just pulled the front shoes as well and she is moving beautifully! Who knew shoes could do so much harm…!!!

Unless she was wearing pads how could she have “thrush under the shoes”? Thrush is a disease affecting the cleft of the frog.

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late to the party. My horse did this, felt like the leg and hip was falling away behind. He wound up having hock issues and needed to have surgical ( laser) fusing