And Nosey is NICE too. Wow. I love her build and Banjo’s trot looks SO MUCH like hers. I had to laugh when she slipped in that video. Never mind—I’ll just throw in a few bucks too! Like my other OTTB. NO worries, I’ll just show off!
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I definitely didn’t mean to suggest gradytb was hijacking, I just really like to see pix and videos of other people’s auction/project horses 
I also think gradytb should post him on the Bowie thread so people that follow that can see him, in addition to giving him his own unique thread!
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Oh – I was looking for a Bowie thread when I posted here because I thought there was one but I couldn’t find it.
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DD and I were fueling up at a gas station in Prospect KY hauling home from a clinic at Flying Cross some yrs ago and a guy there buying drinks approached us asking if we had extra room (4H GN) did we want a free horse? He worked at the local race training center and there was one that had to go. I was dying to be curious … bring home ‘another’ horse …? That would have been a deep end.
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Once a track knows your name and that you’re a sucker, you will get all sorts of calls and emails from the trainers and track vet asking you to consider horses that their owners have told them to get rid of. 
I got four great TBs for free because of minor injuries that just needed some Dr. Green that no one wanted to pay for. All came sound quickly and held up to jumping and flat work.
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Question about these bumps of grayish flesh at the bottom of each laceration on Nosey’s face. I’m assuming it’s dead/dying skin, should I leave it alone? Put something on it to make it slough off? She does occasionally rub her face on something like it’s itchy, but it doesn’t seem overly sensitive.
Vet saw her. Could you text vets office with a photo and ask for ointment recommendation if they think she needs it?
Does it look like proud flesh to you?
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It does not look like proud flesh to me, it looks like the flap of skin that covered the wound before the injury. Just wondering if it will shrivel up eventually or if I should be helping it along. Vet wasn’t concerned about it last week and we were admittedly concentrating on other matters, but I’ll send her the pic tomorrow when she’s back in the office.
Personally I would not pull at the scab. I would just sponge it clean and apply vitamin E oil.
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Probably not the right answer, but I too would want to help it along because it just seems like be itchy.
Doing other stuff is likely a far better answer than this though.
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I would try honey.
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Keep it moisturized if you can. I use Desitin paste or whatever ointment you have laying around. It will keep it from being as itchy.
It will heal fine if you do nothing. Just makes me feel better keeping something on it.
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I’ve had great luck with a little rub of Vaseline for minor wounds like that. A tiny dab and rub and it softens it up and gets rid of the itch which is likely from the pull from the little scab. I’d likely rub the whole area between the two arrows, it looks like it’s a bit rubbed up there.
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My late prior horse used to whack himself across the center white strip of his face, every year right before the biggest show of the year. Went down the dressage center line with a big noticeable piece of skin missing across the otherwise elegant white face marking, much like Nosey’s raw spots. Something for the judge to look at during that long trek to C.
I agree with any treatment that makes you feel better.
It takes a long time for all the hair to grow back in after the healing. But a few months from now no one will ever know these spots were there.
It’s just hard to look at during the interim while it is still a bit raw, because it kind of looks back at you, ya know. There’s no way not to wonder continuously if the human owes the horse some furazone or mtg or vetericyn or something to put on this.
But with or without help, it’s going to heal just like every other patch of skin horses manage to knock off of their body. 
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Happily out with the big girls tonight. When the witchy pony heads in her direction with ears pinned, Nosey feints away with a head toss and a little buck, then waits until the fatty is eating again and sidles back into the bubble.
That’s my girl. Nobody puts baby in the corner. 
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Awwwwwwwwwwwww.
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She looks like such a yearling, in that great profile shot next to the mature aunties!
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Agreed. Vaseline, neosporin ointment, A&D ointment, vitamin E etc …. Will keep the skin moist allow you to treat it and it will heal in no time.
Love all the Nosey updates.
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I would have a hard time leaving the skin alone, but “helping it along” could damage new tissue.
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Go Nosey! Yes, she does look like a yearling but wow—she has such substance and well put together. Banjo sends his love and a fist-bump for surviving. Now on to thriving!
We’re into full triple antibiotic ointment or vaseline for his scrapes. He got beat up somehow—don’t know how he was hauled to Bowie or if these came from there, but he has a bunch. He’s gotten over the colic of Friday-Saturday. Much better Sunday and I let him into a large connected pasture so he can run around and he has run along the fence to see Bounce a lot. His bloodwork came back normal. Fecal count indicates “moderate” worminess so Quest Plus is on his diet this evening and we’ll finish a course of 6 gastrogards. He and Bounce are WAY too attached this fast! Bounce hangs out next to his paddock with him several times a day for lengthening amounts of time. When I bring Bounce up first to hang in the barn in the late afternoon (94+ temps) he cries until I get Banjo up there. It’s just ridiculous!
Today Banjo got a rinse bath and groomed and all his cuts medicated and I finally went nuclear with 13% permethryn wiped on for the flies. He’s scared of anything that sounds like a spray—velcro, sprayer, hose—so we just go slow and wipe stuff on. Not surprised. None of my OTTBs have liked sprays right off the bat. Banjo also has no sense of personal space! He just wants to be leaning on you or cuddling in your chest. He is a baby horse for a 4-year old. A baby that’s been through way more than he should have. That’s OK! I used a rope halter with nose knots to bring him up this afternoon and made him stop, back up, and keep pace with me several times. He’s super smart and caught on halfway between the paddock and barn. I was poking him hard with a finger to stay off me yesterday and he stopped and looked at me like…WHAT??? After dinner tonight, I tied him in the aisle and he fell asleep, lower lip hanging down while I combed out his mane again, brushed him, picked his feet, and wiped him down with fly spray. I want to try clippers on him but I think that will be a major deal and not going to put him through that right now.
Just for sport horse people—I emailed the current owner of his sire, Jack Milton, (the horse not the owner!), just trying to get a sense of whether Banjo will grow more and if this is really his temperament or just because he wasn’t feeling well, and got this reply: “Jack is 15.3 and weighs 1225 lbs. Best disposition i have ever had in a stallion. good boy We have only had him a couple of years, but i think they make very good sport horses. we have shipped semen back to kentucky for polo and sport horse breeders who are riding some of his 5,6 and seven year olds. i think that speaks for itself.”
So it IS his temperament and his elegant movement isn’t a fluke and at 15.3 he probably won’t grow any, or much taller. He also seems to have really good feet so far. We’ll tackle the farrier next week to pull the two left racing plates and go with 2 fronts. He probably won’t need hinds and I haven’t needed to show any of my OTTBs here behind.
THings are on the upswing and he is already such a blessing. What a sweetheart.
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