I’m currently rehabbing my horse back from a hind branch injury and would love some success stories to keep me positive and motivated.
I’m on month 18 post injury and now legging my horse back up after a year of stall rest and 6 months of full turnout.
Our first 3-Day horse Hail Caesar was purchased with a healed suspensory injury in his hind leg. He was 10 years old. Over the next 11 years, show in 3-Day through the levels to Intermediate all over the mid-West and East Coast, probably 100 horse trials or more, not to mention the thousands of schooling secessions, dressage shows, and o/f shows, Hail Caesar incurred three more tendon injuries -one in each leg. We followed veterinary advice and each time he healed and was back the next season.
At 22 he came home to retire. He lived to be 29.
I still miss the big guy!
The first part of the video is dressage, cross country is at 3:52.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hail+caesar+michelle+weeks
Nice horse! 
If my aged eyes (& memory) aren’t fooling me, was that at Lamplight in St Charles, IL?
I spent many years showing Hunter’s there.
Both before & after phase 1 of the Big Rehab.
With 3 rings going, we’d have enough time after classes to hack across the road & ride the XC course.
BN fences only 
Yes, that was Lamplight! --it might have been AEC --not sure —one of our favorite venues as one could drink at the bar and watch dressage –
It’s where the guy who introduced me to Dressage worked as a trainer.
At one time he lived on the property, in what’s now the cafe.
Great venue & I hope HITS keeps it for s long, long time!
OP, apologies for the Memory Lane hijack 
As far as I know, there are no longer Horse Trials held there --but I’m pretty far out of the loop and no longer keep track of who, what, and where.
FYI --took Bob to a Western Reining trainer yesterday as our dressage trainer said the word “contact” one too many times —WRT immediately changed Bob’s bit and by the end of 90 min had us on a draped rein slow canter. I finally feel like I am making progress!! [Bob does canter slowly on a draped rein, saw video of him before I bought him and watched his last owner ride him slowly hands-free on a draped rein twice before I bought him --he just wouldn’t do it for ME --but I think he will soon].
Another lesson on next Tuesday.
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