Right, this is for a friend. I'd love to hear any ideas you might have.
10 yr old Irish mare. Working at AM dressage, schooling PSG (tempi changes, pirouettes etc.). Jumping 1.20 ish at home. Well schooled but very hot and needs careful riding.
In the last year or so she's slowly deteriorated in behaviour and ridden work, but nothing concrete has been found. She had sintigraphy and they found "hot spots" in her hocks and sacro-iliac joints, which were treated with the usual steroid/ha injections but that had minimal effect. The vets admitted that most horses her age would have these hot spots.
She had a strange intermittent colic last year, which was thought to be associated with her ovaries and she was put on regumate, which seemed to help a bit (but she did have a minor colicy episode while on it). Has had back x-rayed - no kissing spines.
Now she is bunny hopping in her canter transitions. She is planting and refusing to move in walk. She will not collect the canter at all (remember this horse was schooling pirouettes). Her trot has gone very choppy. There is no technical lameness and she is sound on flexion. The only other thing is that the muscles over her hind quarters feel very tense and hard, and she's extremely sensitive to anyone touching her there. Her saddle tends to slip to the right whenever she's ridden (and it does fit her according to saddler).
Oh, and last year she did a check ligament and was out for five months, but that's been scanned as healed.
Now, I'm thinking two things. Firstly get her hind suspensories scanned. And secondly get her checked out for EPSM/azorturia type problems. What do you think?
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