HELP !!! HORSE WITH ON AND OFF LAMENESS IN LEFT FRONT!!!
I have been having some issues with my new gelding, he has been lame on and off. He came to me in terrible condition, and we don’t know his whole history. I know he is off the track and was a steeplechaser, and that he is only 10. He is an amazing mover/jumper, and is super willing and sweet and too fancy to be broken!!!
As I started riding him there were a couple times when we saw a few funny steps that may have been lameness and then it went away, eliminating a sudden injury because it gradually got worse. Also, he has no heat or swelling anywhere. Initially it was a very low-grade lameness and it was only visible on a circle to the right, with the lame leg(left front) on the outside, making us suspect a suspension injury.
We called the vet out and he nerve blocked fetlock down with no improvement, and he flexed fine. My trainer had him stop there, assuming he would go back considering it was likely something complicated but we decided we were too attached and that he was too good of a horse to let go. We called the vet back out a few weeks later and he was completely sound. I started lunging him, then flatting him, then jumping and all was fine until yesterday, when suddenly he was lame again. Still the left front, but now it’s worse when the leg is on the inside and he’s almost completely sound the other direction, I also continued riding him the day he came up lame and after about 15 minutes it went away and he was fine jumping and everything. (The only reason I didn’t get off is because the vet told us to keep riding him if he went lame again so he couldn’t recover before he could see him again, that way they can finish blocking him.)
