Horsey help required, please

[Gerald]

"Abbeybraney pulled his stifle out coming down the hill at Cheltenham, but he seems fine again"

Thankyou.

[lekha85]

Probably easier to direct you to a link than explain:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stifle_joint?wasRedirected=true

[Gerald]

Yes, I read that one this morning, and also this one:-

http://www.horses-and-horse-information … tifl.shtml

Was wondering whether it really was fixed, and how likely it will go wrong again etc.

[Crepello1957]

I had a pony that used to do that. My Dad was petrified the first time it happened, he thought he had broken a leg & would have to break it to me (I was at school).
We used to have to back him up in the stable till it went back. He grew out of it, it often affects young unfit horses. Hyperion slipped his, think it prevented him running in an important race.

[jinnyj]

Happens quite a bit in young horses as Crepello says. ANd it frightens the life out of you the first time you see it as it really looks like they have a nasty fracture. You have to use a bit of brute force reversing them to get it to click back in but once back, you wouldn’t know they had done it. I used to have a horse (Pirandello) who used to do it alot as a 2 and 3 year old but he grew out of it and went on to do well hurdling. He was just fairly immature when I had him.

I was suprised to read about Abbeybraney though – seems odd mid-race and I have not heard of that before but presumably they have checked him thoroughly. I half fancied him for the National if he gets in with the ground being soft.

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