I am curious if any horses in the Tevis cup this
past weekend were barefoot and if so what type of boots did they use? I started
and my horse is barefoot and we used the epics. Unfortunately I had to pull at
Francisco's due to a lameness. From what I could tell his lameness was not down
in his hooves but was in his rear end. I had an accident w/ him about a month
ago and he still had a small open wound which may have contributed to some of
the lameness. However, my gut tells me that the real reason why I had to pull is
because he had a mild tie up. I feel the tie up was due to all the alfalfa he
had at the vet checks crews were not allowed at. I didn't see any grass hay
offered, only alfalfa. This horse has not had alfalfa in 4 1/2 yrs.
Susan G, I had a blood panel pulled on him and his
AST was 603 and CK was 2974. Would these levels be considered a mild tie
up?
BTW, this is the same horse that I posted about,
about possibly being over conditioned. I think we did a pretty darn good job at
making it as far as we did.
