Claude on the mend

I'm sure this is tempting providence but Claude is on the mend, after 3 months of mostly box rest and some walking (in hand and under saddle) we have moved onto trot.

The vet was conservatively positive. It's a long road ahead, suspensory injuries are trouble and high suspensory even more so. With luck we'll be jumping again, when I don't know yet but I'm hoping that we'll be starting to jump early next year.

It's been a huge weight off my mind to know that he's on the road to recovery, nothing is assured and caution is the watchword. The last thing I want to do is cause the injury to reoccur or even get worse, so baby steps all the way.

Claude seems happier in himself to be doing more but it's quite hard, 3 months of idleness has taken a huge toll on his fitness and muscle, in fact he's lost virtually everything we've built up over the past two years and doesn't have the forehand strength he had when I got him either. But sticking to the positive, my horse is getting better and that makes the world quite a bit brighter!