Buster's Big Day

Buster arrived late on Tuesday and as it was getting dark I couldn't take his photos or footage till Wednesday morning.  That meant that his family couldn't be here to see him take his first steps out of shoes so I promised to try and get some footage of him when he went out the next morning.

Fortunately it was a beautiful, sunny day and so, since Buster has a proper coat, unlike my horses, he got to go out in the sunshine with no clothes on :-)  Buster has been on box rest for several months and although he has been very well behaved his owners felt that he was becoming increasingly frustrated.

I always turn new horses out in the top yard, initially, with Felix and Charlie for company.  I was glad that I had my camcorder with me yesterday because Buster provided a perfect opportunity to show how well my boys know their job of keeping new horses calm and making them feel secure.  I am very proud of Felix and Charlie - they are absolutely essential to the smooth running of Rockley.  Buster gives a perfect demo of how quickly horses can integrate, even after box rest :-)



For the hoof anoraks, here are Buster's hoof pics, to finish things off.

He arrived in bar shoes with rather long toes and has had remedial farriery to try and improve the collateral ligament damage which was diagnosed on MRI. 

Bar shoes hide a lot, but it will be interesting as always to see how his hooves change over the next few weeks.