An Accident Means Early Retirement
- Black Thoroughbred Gelding
- Entry Date – 5/1/12
- Type of rescue – Retirement
- Reason – Lameness from a bone chip in his left front leg
- Special needs – None
Originally, Eddie was trailered in to the facility for a weekly riding lesson by the woman who owned him at the time. Because of Eddie’s athletic ability and hot nature, the owner soon decided he was too much horse for her and put him up for sale. Fearing that Eddie would not find a suitable home without extensive training, his riding instructor bought him. Within the first month of his training, Eddie showed signs of a vague lameness. Radiographs revealed a bone chip in his left front leg.
While discussing the lameness with the former owner, it was revealed that Eddie had jumped off a five-foot embankment one day into a stallion’s pen. The jump itself could have caused the problem, but there was also a ruckus with the stallion until Eddie could be retrieved from the pen. After that episode, he was lame for a while before apparently regaining soundness. Because of the bone chip, Eddie was retired very early in his life. Soon Eddie recovered and had only a slight limp. The black gelding spent the rest of his days with two pasture mates safe and secure in the safety net of the Foundation.
