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| First year my horse, the horse is running a beautiful smooth pattern, fires hard to the first but progressively runs less hard through out the run. Not running home hard at all. Besides conditioning, what feed gives your horses some fire? Right now she is on safe choice performance, red cell, grass/alfalfa mix and joint supplement. Thanks!!
Btw I do not believe this is a soundness issue, has had recent lameness exam. |
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| If the horse is not firing, I would rule out bleeding |
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Location: Around here somewhere... | I second the bleeding |
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Location: Oklahoma | other than bleeding: ulcers, breathing----may need flair strips to open airway ...( a lot of horses hold their breath) and /or a bit like a WTP bit that keeps the tongue /palate from displacing...
and if no physical issue...simply breezing exercises to take set out and put run in.......particularly if horse or you sets up for turn a few strides out instead of pushing past
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Get her scoped. My gelding wasn't firing and I was afraid he was a bleeder. Got him scoped as soon as I could after the run and while there were no traces of blood to be found, he did have some inflammation due to allergies and it was giving him a hard time to breathe. Hope you can get to the bottom of it! |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Longneck - 2014-07-12 1:27 PM Get her scoped. My gelding wasn't firing and I was afraid he was a bleeder. Got him scoped as soon as I could after the run and while there were no traces of blood to be found, he did have some inflammation due to allergies and it was giving him a hard time to breathe. Hope you can get to the bottom of it!
What did you do for the allergies? I have a horse that I suspect is having allergic issues. I want to have him tested this week and then begin the series after the TTW. I had no problems with him when I was running 500 miles from the allergy capital of the world in which we live in.
OP, try to get your horse scoped asap after a hard work. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | uno-dos-tres! - 2014-07-12 4:36 PM Longneck - 2014-07-12 1:27 PM Get her scoped. My gelding wasn't firing and I was afraid he was a bleeder. Got him scoped as soon as I could after the run and while there were no traces of blood to be found, he did have some inflammation due to allergies and it was giving him a hard time to breathe. Hope you can get to the bottom of it! What did you do for the allergies? I have a horse that I suspect is having allergic issues. I want to have him tested this week and then begin the series after the TTW. I had no problems with him when I was running 500 miles from the allergy capital of the world in which we live in.
OP, try to get your horse scoped asap after a hard work.
For now we just did 2cc/day IM for 7 days of Dexium. Vet told me I should also give him about 2.5cc 3-4 hours before we run and if that doesn't clear him up (he will cough a couple of times when loping to warm up) we can go back and do allergy testing and start eliminating irritants. I've not ran him since his week of Dexium, but I have rode him a couple of times and he no longer coughes when we warm up. That also could be attributed to just being rode in a pasture and no dust to stir up... going to run him in a few days and we'll see how it goes! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Be careful what you wish for...
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