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Re: [RC] Splints - Don Huston

Yes I saw that write-up, what a great team and now you have given us "the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey used to say.
Thanks for an encouraging outcome, I ordered xrays for next week.
Don Huston


At 07:52 PM 12/23/2006 Saturday, you wrote:
If you look in this month's Endurance News you'll see Josie Whelen &
Southern Rock, 50 mile junior champions at the NC. Rock had a big splint
when he started endurance at 5 ? years old. He did several rides with it,
then after a while started being a bit lame on that leg at times. The
splint was several years old. We got it x-rayed and it turned out there
was a loose piece that was shifting and rubbing the ligament or whatever.
He had surgery when he was 8 maybe? and the vet removed it. I would have
thought it would have been flatter after that but it got *bigger*.  He
had to wear a boot over it but it caused no other problems. He did a few
rides here and there,  was sold a couple of times as one owner got
divorced, the next went to college, then Josie Whelen got him and he's
tearing up the trails at 17. :-)

I don't know if surgery would help your horse or not, but it seemed to
fix Rock long after the fact.

Angie

Don Huston <donhuston@xxxxxxx>




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