I got on Biasini on Monday and as soon as I picked up the trot I knew that he was lame as he felt very uneven to me. Coach Belinda Trussell was there and I asked her to take a look at him she said:” Can you ride him, go really forward down the long side, I did that and she said :”yes he’s not right ,not right at all ,he’s lame.” And where was he lame he was lame on the right front leg that’s the leg that has already had two suspensory injuries, if he had a 3rd suspension injury on that leg I would have to retire him there’s no question about that Then what would I do? I can’t imagine not being able to ride, not having a horse to ride ,but I don’t know about my own future. Since I have Parkinson’s and it’s an unknown factor as to how long I will be able to ride. Every person’s progression with Parkinson is different so I don’t know how long I’ll be able to ride ride for. I don’t know…. maybe I will have 4 years maybe 5 years before I won’t be able to ride at all. But I decided there was no point in going down that road. So I got in touch with the vet and she said that she would come out and take a look at Biasini. She came out yesterday morning. The first thing she did was that she asked her assistant to lunge Biasini and it was clear that he was still lame on that right front leg! Then she said I’m going to freeze his foot and we’ll see so she did that and then you have to wait 10 minutes while the freezing takes effect and in that ten minutes my mind was racing again until l told myself to “just stop it!!!and then she took him back out This time he seemed to be much more sound so she said I think that this is good this because it tells us it it’s not a suspensory injury and then she did another freezing which took it up a bit farther up into his fetlock. And then she picked up a lunging whip and he started to really move out forward and he was absolutely not lame at all The vet said to me she said :”So what this means I am certain it is not another suspensory injury because I didn’t freeze that area I only froze the lower part of his hoof and fetlock and not the suspensory area”. She then took some X rays and we looked at them and we didn’t see any particular thing that might have caused the lameness. It was fortunate there was no fracture. We looked at the x-rays and there was a bit of arthritis. But nothing else that was any cause for concern so we don’t really know why he suddenly came up lame on the Monday it may have been that he just had an odd tweak of that leg or that foot. I don’t know but anyhow the main thing is it is not another suspensory injury . We can go to Florida and carry on as normal! to say that I am I am relieved would be an vast understatement!! Biasini will have a week off from being ridden and when get on him again we will see how he is. If he’s still lame I will get in touch with the vet again.
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