Awww, I know how you feel. It's a running joke in the local horse community how accident prone my horses are. Had one rip his leg open this week...agistment lady sent Mum some photos and she went down the vets, was showing the vet nurse on her phone. Nurse went in to the vet, who was looking at the photo and said "yeah, that will need to come in here..." and walked out into the reception area, spotted Mum and blurted out "Not you again!". He promised us he'd take us for a ride on his lovely new boat, seeing as we paid for it. Our accidents have happened over multiple different properties, all set up for horses, under supervision of different expierenced horse people. Doesn't seem to matter what we do or what precautions we take, they find a way. So I definently know how you feel.

This is Cooper. We'd only had him a few months when we had to put them out paddock (friend does agistment). Day 3 he jumped out of the paddock onto the road (previous owners had also had him jump fences, bastard), unfortunately he then decided to try and re-enter the property via the main drive-which has a cattle grid.

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He was also missing skin off his flank, hip, groin, girth, neck, cheek etc where he'd been struggling on his side before he was found, but at the time the other injuries were so severe that I didn't think to photograph the minor stuff. But it looked like someone had taken a cheesegrater to him.

It was a long slow recovery, including setbacks much likes yours. His leg is very scarred and bumpy, but here he is now:

First test back from injury, March last year.
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All day trail riding through the hills (which if I look out the window are currently on fire )
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Jumping (only very low level though)
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Then, because he is a moron, he ripped the back of his front heel off and had another couple of months recovery. This was him a few weeks ago, about to go out on lease with a para dressage rider (appropriate, if you ask me!)
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