I've not been blogging on here as have been making entries on the SU firum. However, I'm not renewing membership there so I'll try to catch up here on what's been happening.
Since he went back to the vets in August, they decided that his lameness issues are due to poor foot balance. He was given a corrective trim there at the time by Daffy and came sound 2 weeks later. We had a good few weeks of riding where I cracked on with lessons, went to Haddo with Lee walking on foot twice. We went back to Fountain with Emily and he was MUCH better and then he lost a front shoe. Ron was on holiday so I got a female farrier to put it back on. He went lame again. I also had the physio out and she couldn't find anything major but also thought that his feet looked long and with him being so bum high, had put a heap of pressure on his heels.
Ron came last week and we decided we'd take his shoes off and trim every 5 weeks. I'm hoping to get back on today as haven't ridden him for nearly 3 weeks now but the weather is pants :( He looks much better on the lunge so hoping if we keep on top of the feet, we'll have it cracked.
Also had my first fall off him. Decided to go for a walk down puddle lane and a pheasant flew out in his face. I ended up in a puddle with a grazed knee. It didn't scare me at all tho I'm happy to say and even tho sometimes he has been a numpty, I've always ridden him through it.
All in all, loving the big dude. He's pretty confused at the mo as Lisa and Lola have gone to new homes and Daffodil went back to whw yesterday. I'm not too worried about the weather stopping me from riding at the mo as I feel he might need time to settle since this upheavel of his friends going. Toffee is still here tho and they'll hopefully become friends.
