I would like to hear some critiques about my OTTB also exercises to help his hind end and neck build muscle.
His background:
He began training in Ireland as a yearling and raced flat races as a 2 y/o. Raced over hurdles and fences from the age of 3 until he had an accident over fences at 11 injuring his DDFT (offside fore) and his back (reason for the hunters bump)
Retired from racing and was just turned away for 1 year. Bought cheap September 2016 as he had an abscess (and I felt sorry for him being turned out in the cold/wet without a rug). The abscess proved hard to treat so he has been off work until now as he had to have x days etc to locate and drain said abscess 3 times.
I really want to get him muscled up and supple for low level eventing. He jumps well and careful, his cross country is amazing (steeplechaser/hurdler background really helped) very stiff dressage and just overall he's weak neck & hind.
Any critiques on his confirmation and exercises to help build him up would be much appreciated
His background:
He began training in Ireland as a yearling and raced flat races as a 2 y/o. Raced over hurdles and fences from the age of 3 until he had an accident over fences at 11 injuring his DDFT (offside fore) and his back (reason for the hunters bump)
Retired from racing and was just turned away for 1 year. Bought cheap September 2016 as he had an abscess (and I felt sorry for him being turned out in the cold/wet without a rug). The abscess proved hard to treat so he has been off work until now as he had to have x days etc to locate and drain said abscess 3 times.
I really want to get him muscled up and supple for low level eventing. He jumps well and careful, his cross country is amazing (steeplechaser/hurdler background really helped) very stiff dressage and just overall he's weak neck & hind.
Any critiques on his confirmation and exercises to help build him up would be much appreciated