Our most recent arrivals came this weekend and as usual I will post their initial photos here and their slow motion footage on Instagram @rockleyfarm.
Anna is an Irish sports horse who has suffered from intermittent RF lameness with navicular changes diagnosed on MRI.
Her owner had already identified that she was landing toe first, and had done so for a long time before coming here.
She had been shod up until last year and has been out of shoes for a few months now. Her feet have improved but are still weak, with under-developed frog and caudal hoof.
I'll post updates in a few weeks when I hope her landing will have begun to improve.
Our second horse is Jack, who arrived on Sunday and who has also had ongoing long term front limb lameness. Again, on MRI he was showing navicular bone changes and collateral ligament damage.
Like Anna, Jack's shoes had been taken off before he arrived, which gives us a helpful starting point.
He is actually landing better than Anna and as you can see has a better developed frog.
My suspicion is that some of his issues relate to media-lateral imbalance so I will post some additional footage over the next few days.
