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Not long after my last post, well perhaps a little while, Amy was at a Pony Club meet on a very windy, rainy day at Herron Park, and fractured her pelvis in two places. We had taken Maverick to the dressage courts to show him around, lunged him a bit to see how he would do in the new setting. People with dogs walking by, children riding their bicycles, and strange scary people popping over the hill from nowhere on the walking paths. He was a little alert but nothing out of the ordinary….
When the Pony Club instructor arrived the girls started some flat work in the dressage courts, bearing in mind the wind was howling and there was a constant drizzle of rain, and quite the chill in the air. All went well, phew.
Now came the jumps. The first one was good, Maverick was now feeling excited and started tossing his head. I should have noticed the signs, I did not:(
On the third jump, nice cross pole and then up and over the next jump, an oxer, and one big buck on landing and poor little Amy was catapulted in the air and landed smack, bang, on her left hip. Of course Maverick just stood there looking down at her. She could not walk. We fireman carried her up the hill to the truck. Of course I couldn’t get to the ER straight away, I had the horse to take back to the barn. Needless to say it was hard to see my little girl in so much pain. We had a system down to get Maverick in and out of the trailer and I couldn’t do it without her. Poor girl could not walk, but I picked her up and placed her next to the trailer so that she could help me.
Off to the ER we go. Take x-rays and they give her the all clear. Three weeks pass by and she is still not able to bare weight on her leg. I make an appointment for an MRI, and alas, we get told her pelvis is fractured in two places. Poor girl sat there and cried. She has a history of breaking things and spent two years with her left arm broken three times, and now this. All her hard work getting ready to jump in her first competition at Rebecca Farms went up in smoke.
Galloping forward to August, Amy got to ride in her very first show ever, she came first with her USDF Intro Test A with a 71% and third with her Intro Test B with a 68%.