Last night RB3 came out and I jumped the TWH, working on trying to keep his lead between a set of 2 jumps so that we may have a shot of placing when we go to our show on the 21st. We started with a set of 2 poles on the ground which worked well when I kept him collected and "in a box". I then bumped one pole into a 12" crossrail and worked on the same exercise with the same relative success. It was not perfect by any means, but we kept it most times.
As going over a tiny crossrail is extremely boring, I went ahead and bumped the 2nd pole up to a 2' vertical and jumped it. TWH had lots of problems with getting the wrong lead both in front and rear, ugh! I finally called it quits when he kept his lead twice in a row both directions. While I normally insist on 3 times I didn't want to start a fight I couldn't finish as we had been riding almost 45 mins at this point and he was pretty tired and sweaty.
I switched horses with RB3 and jumped the App, he had been watching the jumps and had tried to go over them a few times with RB3. App did pretty well, his only issue being hanging his front legs from jumping too close to the jump. Well, who am I fooling? He hangs his legs all of the time, it was just worse because he was jumping at the base of the jump instead of a little ways back. When I jump next I will put a placing pole in front of the jumps to help back everyone off of the jump, I know it will help and don't know why I didn't do it last night. Bad trainer.
When I came out to feed this AM I noticed the App was very lame on his right front, he didn't want to even set it down. Dread filled me, what did he do between night check and now?!? I checked him over and there wasn't any heat or swelling, when I picked up his foot it was an obvious answer. There was a huge fence stable jammed in the apex of his frog! I have absolutely no idea where he would have gotten that in his stall and I know he was okay at night check. The staple was in pretty deep too, I feel so bad for the guy. I pulled it out and cleaned it the best I could. Put some betadine and Scarlet oil in the hole and then soaked the hoof for a few mins, drenched it in hydrogen peroxide and wrapped it up in a diaper with some loose Epsom salt and neosporin. I am really really hoping it doesn't abscess or become infected, he was still pretty tender on it after I wrapped him. I will check him again at lunch and give him some bute if he is still ouchy. Poor guy.
Eeek poor guy!! That sucks. It's crazy how they can find something as small as a darn fence staple and get it jammed in their darn feet. I hope he's feeling better. It sounds like you did all that can be done to clean the wound. I hope it doesn't abscess.
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