Finally things seem to be improving with my run of bad luck recently. Biggles seems to be improving on a daily basis but we did have a little relapse of him going lame again when we started trot work but fingers crossed we are back on track. He is now looking fantastic after all his water treadmill sessions combined with work on the pessoa he's feeling rather well, Forest Farmacy box rest power has been a real help with him while he has been on walking exercise in hand, he is a lot less flighty and more relaxed. I was allowed to start ridden work yesterday and Biggles was on best behaviour for our exciting 10 minute walk!!! My vet is back out tomorrow to review what the next step is and hopefully he will be back out competing the back end of the summer, but I won't make any plans yet just in case ....
Ze is still out of action and has been on box rest followed by limited turnout, he is becoming a mystery as so far his bone scans, ultrasound and x rays have not shown anything up. He is still lame and dragging a toe behind in trot so we are treating it as a sacroilliac injury as we have narrowed it down to that area when blocking him from the stifle down showed no improvement. He is however a lot happier in himself which is good as I think his recovery will be a very long and slow process!!!
The good news... Picnic is going really well, we have progressed and achieved our aim for this year of jumping Newcomers, I am delighted and we can now work on improving at that height for the summer and hopefully be ready to enter some qualifiers. Our first newcomers class was at the North Somerset show and she jumped brilliantly only to brush the last pole but I was still thrilled seeings as it was our first attempt and I also think it may have been me prematurely thinking we'd gone clear before jumping the last fence! On Sunday we went to a Riding Club qualifier at Malvern and entered the 1.10 - 1.15m open and had great success with our team finishing 2nd! Picture of Picnic in action is attached. This weekend we are off out to try another Newcomers and 1.15m open, will keep you posted how we get on.
