Comet Should Recover Fully

As we all know, Courageous Comet threw a shoe early on the course on Saturday and then withdrew from the jog Sunday morning after being held.  The word on Sunday morning was that Comet was sore from something more than a bruised foot.  A report by Dr. Furlong, the US team vet on TheHorse.com Wednesday afternoon explains that Comet had filling in his right front leg but no apparent damage to important structures:

“He pulled his left front shoe on course and pulled up lame…There was filling in the right front leg,” which indicated some degree of overstress to the compensating opposite foreleg, Furlong said. But “there was no pain on palpation, and he was ultrasounded by Dr. [Jean-Marie] Denoix, who is the world’s foremost ultrasound specialist. He could find no damage to any structure — tendons or ligaments,” he said. 

The edema was determined to be superficial, and Courageous Comet “should make a complete and full recovery,” said Furlong. The gelding is receiving “standard treatment” for this type of minor soft-tissue injury: a course of anti-inflammatory medication plus those old horsemen’s standbys of cold-hosing, hand-walking, and limited turnout, Furlong said. Read more at TheHorse.com

Obviously, we are all excited to see Comet back in action soon.  Go eventing.

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