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Location: Missouri | My mare has always been a tripper. You can be walking along and she'll trip. You can be loping circles and she'll trip. She's tripped since she was young but she never has tripped while running until recently and she stumbles alot at the 1st barrel.
Last night, my daughter who has taken her over couldn't get her to pick up her right lead. I watched her and she didn't look off. So I got on and the 1st time she didn't, but the 2nd time I asked her she did and she didn't feel off. She went ahead and ran a set on her and she stumbled at the 1st, the first time, but didn't the 2nd time.
Last year I had her vet checked and she passed the soundness check. Something for sure is going on though. I haven't had a chiro look at her yet and I'm thinking this might be my next move. |
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Stifles? Is she dumping onto her front end when she is setting up for the turns?
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BHW New Catch of the Day
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Location: Missouri | cowgalsissy - 2018-01-25 9:33 AM Stifles? Is she dumping onto her front end when she is setting up for the turns?
Maybe a little at the 1st, but she's spot on at the 2nd and 3rd. |
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Too Skinny
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Tbred - 2018-01-25 9:38 AM cowgalsissy - 2018-01-25 9:33 AM Stifles? Is she dumping onto her front end when she is setting up for the turns?
Maybe a little at the 1st, but she's spot on at the 2nd and 3rd.
She may be trying to get off the rear which is making her front end heavier and dragging enough to cause the tripping. May not be anything more than poor conformation but I would suspect something is off. |
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | One of the biggest hindsight symptoms of my EPM horse was tripping. Like, stubbing her toe in her turns--most frequently it was the 3rd. She short stepped sometimes, and very occasionally acted tenderfooted or would struggle picking up a lead now and then, but she was never lame until it BLEW UP and she could barely walk and almost died.
Edited by RockinGR 2018-01-25 10:22 AM
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BHW New Catch of the Day
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Location: Missouri | RockinGR - 2018-01-25 10:20 AM One of the biggest hindsight symptoms of my EPM horse was tripping. Like, stubbing her toe in her turns--most frequently it was the 3rd. She short stepped sometimes, and very occasionally acted tenderfooted or would struggle picking up a lead now and then, but she was never lame until it BLEW UP and she could barely walk and almost died.
Yes, I had a horse 25 years ago before EPM became well known who died before anyone knew what it was. She had issues going right, but was a hunter/jumper not a barrel horse. Then 1 day she could only walk in circles.
I'm not sure this mare has it, just due to the fact that she's 13yrs old now and has been tripping since she was started under saddle. But has only been doing it at the 1st barrel recently, and not 100% of the time. I'm mention it to the vet though, wouldn't hurt to rule it out. |
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Location: Canada | Id consider having her back or neck xrayed. I had a friend have a horse that was like that and she had a spinal injury. Depending on the level of inflammation she was experiencing it would affect how she could feel her feet and how she was placing them.
She's a broodmare now. |
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Location: North Dakota | I would say to look at her front feet.
If you can even take a video on flat smooth ground, and then replay in slow motion
-- is she landing heel first?
Flat footed?
Toe first?
Horses that land toe first are at great risk for tripping.
How's her trim job? Can you post pictures of her feet?
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Location: Missouri | r_beau - 2018-01-25 11:36 AM I would say to look at her front feet.
If you can even take a video on flat smooth ground, and then replay in slow motion
-- is she landing heel first?
Flat footed?
Toe first?
Horses that land toe first are at great risk for tripping.
How's her trim job? Can you post pictures of her feet?
She's due for a trim this month. I'll see about getting pics after that. Right now she's going to look long in the toe. |
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| Early signs of EPM |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | Maybe something going on in her shoulders? Ive never personally had this problem but i know when my friends mare starts tripping she has her massaged and is normally tight somewhere. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I would rule out EMP first. Do you have shoes on her? If so I would maybe try her without shoes for a while, I have one that would always trip over himself, so had the shoes taken off pulled his toes back a bit, this helped alot.  |
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Location: Arizona | I would get with your farrier first. Is she barefoot, if so maybe adding shoes will help her. If she has shoes then maybe you need to change them up, take more toe off, put a lighter shoe on...etc.... |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Bewitching Racer - 2018-01-25 2:28 PM Check her knees (especially her right knee)....
Lots of good advice and reasons for tripping but I first thought of the knees too. My old guy is going to be 25 in May. He started to stumble more and more in his teens and is now in such great shape except those beat up knees. He has a big knot on one. I wish I had caught it earlier when he was in his teens and been more proactive about them. We don't even let my young son on him in the corral to plod around because I am afraid he will go down one of these days. We trim him a little different to make him have a better break over. It has helped a lot. |
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Location: Mountains of VA | Left stifle, that is where I would start.........problems with right lead and turning right. Also long toes in front but left stifle comes to mind first. |
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Location: The Great Northwest | I suggest a Chiropractor to check over the horse. |
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BHW New Catch of the Day
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Location: Missouri | Vet is coming Thursday. Going to look at stifle and test for EPM. Sunday, this past weekend, my daughter was just trotting circles and mare went down in front to her knees, rolled over on her side and slowly got up. I'm starting to freak! |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | Tbred - 2018-01-30 1:03 PM Vet is coming Thursday. Going to look at stifle and test for EPM. Sunday, this past weekend, my daughter was just trotting circles and mare went down in front to her knees, rolled over on her side and slowly got up. I'm starting to freak!
if you're starting to freak, why are you waiting until thursday to have the vet look at her?
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Location: Texas | You might take a good look at her feet. She may be sitting too much on her heels and need to have some toes taken off. When I got my new horse he was tripping and that was what I noticed first and my farrier did also. It took more than one time trimming but he is not doing that tripping anymore. Check and see if she is sitting on her heels. |
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