Poor Performance

Poor performance can affect a horse or pony competing in any discipline from racing to jumping to dressage horses. These can be challenging cases where there may appear to be “nothing wrong” with the horse, but it is just not doing as well as it used to or as well as it is expected to do.

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The most common reasons for poor performance include:

-  Lameness

-  Neck, back and pelvic disease

-  Dental disease

-  Respiratory disease

-  Gastric ulcers

-Other medical reason eg heart disease, viral disease

-  Training/natural ability of the horse limitations

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Each of these conditions must be ruled in or out by various different tests so that we can get a diagnosis. Quite often the horse has a combination of these issues. It is only by diagnosis and appropriate treatment that we can get the results we want.

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Please talk to David today if you feel your horse may not be performing to the best of his ability, to see if we can help your horse maximise his potential.