- how would you know it was because of the 15 minutes on the ice and not as a result of playing in the field the next day, or being ridden round the lanes? Answer - you wouldn't.
Good point, Mic. We seem to have more horses hurt playing in the safest pastures I have ever seen than in any other way. My daughter's retired endurance horse hit his own suspensory playing in the pasture and had a year off then suffered a nasty puncture wound in his shoulder from a sharp object and had another year off. The only structure in the entire field was a wooden shelter, but they never found anything on it that could have caused that type of wound. Nancy
