Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and today I wanted to give you an update on the horse Bailador. In the video we showed you of him when we first started about a year ago, he was hollow and had severe holes throughout his back. We wanted to give you an update on his progress.

Look how nicely he has come up in the withers, when before it was very dropped. In the video you can see that this area is now completely flat, when before he had holes very deep into his back and a total indentation where the old saddle used to sit. In only a year’s time, we were able to completely get rid of that. Also, his neck has thickened up across the topline after starting with quite a u-neck. He was also broken at the third vertebrae, which I will show you the improvement on in a video of him being ridden. There was also a time when if you tried to pick up his left leg, he would start shaking and wasn’t able to stand on his leg. As you can see, that no longer bothers him and he can stand there quite nicely to be shod or groomed. What looked like a possible neurological problem, has completely gone away.

Bailador still has another year to go to completely develop his topline. There is still a small bump (Shown in the video), but this will completely disappear within the next couple months. It’s always good to look at horses, which you should be doing at home as well. Videotape your horse and then go back and compare. Not only on the horse while your riding, but off the horse as well.

Once again, this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and thanks for watching!

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