By then he had dropped a ton of weight & lost a lot of topline :( The vet said there was nothing we could give him to make him better to just give him time off. By this time it had been a few weeks so decided to give him another few light weeks & see how he felt.
Unfortunately Cobs is not the sort of horse you can just turn out so I was road riding him every three/four days trying to keep his sanity. First few rides he struggled but by the end of the second week he felt a lot better. I went down to the showgrounds for a walk out and he felt good down there too.
On the 24th took him down to my friends arena and he was a little snot - typical winter Cobs crap but at least he had the energy to be naughty so that was good. Went back down there yesterday & he worked SUPER - was so lovely & soft. Felt amazing.
So plan is now to try and bring him back into work as much as I can by only riding on the weekends. Would like to think we could do some winter jumping end of July but will just see how he is feeling.
