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Archive for June 18th, 2009MyEquusBlog – Treating a Strange Injury of Panimetro My Adopted Ex-Racehorse Metro Aug 2008 I’ve been nursing my adopted injured ex-racehorse, Panimetro (barn name is Metro), for the past 2 weeks in this 95+ degree weather and severe thunderstorms. He pulled a tendon on his bad left leg where he had broken fetlock in 4 places. The vet thinks tenosynovitis of his SFDT or suspensory, possibly from standing in wet sandy-mud that was like a quicksand from all the rain we’ve had, and twisted it trying to get it out. This happened on Tuesday. Jerry fed the horses their breakfast and Metro walked into his stall OK, but by mid-morning he was standing out in his paddock in the hot sun and wouldn’t move. We tried to move him and he acted like he would fall over. His leg had swollen all the way up to his elbow with a very painful reaction to touch and it even hurt to touch his shoulder. So, we stood out in the full sun in his paddock hosing him off for almost 2 hours until the vet came. She gave him a pain shot (we had just given him a shot of Banamine) and we all dragged/pushed him into his stall. She made up a mixture of Nitrofurazone/DMSO/Dex ointment, slathered his leg with it and wrapped in cling wrap, then put a pillow wrap with standing wrap on and put him on stall rest. She gave me Ditrim antibiotics (10 pills, 2 times a day), bottle of Banamine (10mg orally in morning), Bute (2 at night), and oral Trichlor-Dex medicine (at night) to give him. I melted it all in water, mixed it with white Karo syrup and his Tahitian Noni Flex that he already gets twice a day every day. Luckily he ate it in his feed so I didn’t have to mix and squirt in his mouth. All during the time from when we got him back into his stall and started on the meds, he was in good spirits, eyes were lively and he had a good appetite. He was able to get around his stall and would drag his leg. He did lie down to sleep in his stall Tuesday night, as we saw signs of shavings on his body. Jason also sneaked out at midnight and saw him sleeping with his back foot cocked and his weight on both front legs. We did a re-wrap of leg at noon the next day, Wednesday, but his leg had swollen from his knee up to his elbow three times its size with cellulites at knee and fetlock, plus he had gotten a swollen lymph node under his chest. So the vet came back out again in the evening to look at it. She had me walk him and he was able to walk with minimal limping. We unwrapped it and hosed it with cold water for 20 minutes. She prescribed walking him four times a day for 10 minutes each. At noon, unwrap it and hose for 20 minutes with cool water and re-wrap it and spread with the Nitrofurazone/DMSO/Dex combo on the whole leg. Jerry also made the paddock attached to his stall small so he could go outside to poop and walk, but we had to stand with him so he wouldn’t run or rear and play as he was feeling much better. Thursday morning, he lay down in his stall and rolled to scratch his back. His leg had gone down in size by 2/3rds by then. By Friday, the swelling was almost completely gone above the knee. As soon as I opened the paddock so he could go out while I watched him, he immediately lay down and rolled on both sides. By this time, he wasn’t trying to run or rear and play in the paddock so we could let him outside in his paddock on his own and left it open Friday night. See http://horsesinthesouth.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/21/myequusblog-panimetro-thoroughbred-racehorses-beat-the-odds-retire-to-florida/ for a reprint of the story of Panimetro when he first came to me. Below is a gallery of images going from the 1st day, June 10-16 2009, showing how it was so swollen on the 1st day, then even more swollen on the 2nd day, but as soon as I started hand-walking him 4 times a day and hosing it with cold water and putting the Nitrofurazone/DMSO/Dex ointment on the whole leg, the swelling kept going down until it’s almost normal again, at least for his leg, which isn’t really normal anyway for a horse that broke their fetlock in 4 places… Click on an image for a larger view. Click the back button to return to the Blog.
During the interim: We had another horrible thunderstorm with hail and all last Saturday, so we had to lock Metro back in his stall. Rocki had access to her paddock from her stall and the hail scared her so much, she was standing in her attached paddock in the rain when Jerry got home from a car show the university had. By the way, Jerry had just bought a nice big Yamaha motor scooter (with carry places for small groceries) to ride to work and to the boat to save on gas. Since it hadn’t rained for the last 3 days in the week, he figured he would do a test ride downtown to a car show at the he needed to attend as a professor. There were huge thunderstorms downtown (northeast) and they were also coming in from the west to merge. He stopped and bought a good motorcycle rain jacket with padded safety sleeves (he had already gotten a helmet). He was fine until he got almost to the road to turn on to get to our place when the hail and sideways mini ‘tornadic’ rains hit. He had to pull over as did all of the cars behind him until that passed. He finally made it home by 4:15pm and was going to be here at 2pm. This is when he saw Rocki outside in the rain as he is parking his scooter at the barn, so he locked her inside her stall.
I ran out to the barn jumping all the way so I wouldn’t get hit by lightning and helped wipe her down and find the towels for him. What was scariest was that I couldn’t reach him on the phone since he was on the scooter, so we were incommunicado for over an hour. My neighbors were gone too and didn’t think it was going to rain that day as it had been dry all week, so they left their horses out with no way to get inside. Jason and I went over and brought them in before the storm hit. Just an hour before that I had been in the pool swimming and cooling off from taking care of Metro in the oppressive heat and then going to my neighbors while wet to pick blackberries. Whew! What a day! What a week! I was faced with the possibility that if Metro didn’t walk, he could founder and would have to be put down. His leg is still slightly swollen just below the knee on the inside and there is heat at that spot, so he still has healing to do yet before he gets to go back out in the pasture, plus I will have to hand walk him to keep him from getting bored and let him graze. His paddock is back open for him now as it has dried up enough, but we see more storms coming this week. The weather we’ve been having for going on 8 weeks now has really messed up both mile long dirt roads to our place. We are in a private association so the county won’t help us fix the road – it’s up to us home owners to do. The roads have been impassable without a 4-wheel or all-wheel drive vehicle (of which we have 2). Our neighbor’s truck isn’t 4-wheel drive and neither is their car, so they just bought a 4-wheel drive jeep/truck to get in and out. The road keeps washing out almost every day after the heavy rains, and the guys who manage the road for us keep fixing it so we can get in and out. The first week or 2 was pretty bad, until they got some association dues paid to help with the grading and extra dirt. Much fun, there ;P Read more about Metro at:
EXERPT: The Vid gains first stakes winner
Multiple Grade 2 winner The Vid earned his first stakes winner on Thursday when Panimetro won the $66,600 Copa 4 de Julio at El Comandante in Puerto Rico. Out of the stakes-winning Take the Floor mare Floor Me, Panimetro won the 1 1/8-mile race by one length on a good track in 1:53.50.
Panimetro is one of 15 starters from the second crop of The Vid, who has 67 foals of racing age. His progeny have earned $361,035. Dr. and Mrs. James Gamble bred Panimetro in Florida. He has won four of 16 career starts in two seasons and has earned $72,009 for owner Establo Madoca. Joseph J. Sullivan bred and campaigned The Vid, who won 14 of 40 career starts in five seasons, including the 1995 Dixie Stakes (G2) and back-to-back wins in the Canadian Turf Handicap (G2) in ’95 and ’96. The son of World Appeal earned $952,216. The Vid died at Irish Acres Farm near Ocala in June 2000 at the age of ten. More: Panimetro (g. by The Vid). 14 wins, 2 to 6, $297,800, Copa 4 de Julio, Clasico Dia delos Padres, Clasico Campeon Importado, 2nd Clasico Jose de Diego, Clasico Jose Celso Barbosa, 3rd Clasico Jose de Diego, Clasico Jose Celso Barbosa, Clasico Juan Ponce de Leon, Clasico Verset’s Jet twice, etc.,
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…and more… after the 4th page in Google, I stopped for now. Wow! I hadn’t checked on him to see how many places he is mentioned! There are 13 pages in Google that have the word Panimetro mentioned. More pictures at: http://www.equestrianlife.com/viewGallery.php?horseid=15217&imgID=16133 and another article on our old website design articles section http://www.northfloridahorserescue.com/Articles/EquineProtection/HfH/thoroughbred-racehorses-retire-to-florida.asp (this has been reposted to my blog at http://horsesinthesouth.com/blog/index.php/2009/06/21/myequusblog-panimetro-thoroughbred-racehorses-beat-the-odds-retire-to-florida/
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