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[RC] Splint - Stewart, CarrieI have started my 4 year old on a beginning endurance carrier this summer. He is going well and we do about 5-10 slow miles about 3 times a week. We walk, slow trot and never canter. Last week I noticed that he popped a splint. There was no warning that it was coming. No heat and no off-ness at all. We use roads and hard packed dirt roads to ride on along with the grassy right of way areas when we can. Am I being too hard on his legs with the impact of the roads? We are still barefoot at this point and I don't notice that he is interfering at all to have caused this splint. It is a high, inside splint on the cannon bone. Any ideas as a course of action or maybe some training changes? He has good substance and bone for a four year old and we have really been taking it easy so this just mystifies me. Thank you. Carrie S. East Texas =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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