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9 years ago today (12th April 2023) I got to the yard about 6.30 after work. Usually both horses would come running over for their tea but that day only HP did. I gave HP his and walked over to Jason. He took a mouthful and just dropped it – not normal for my greedy cob. There was nothing else obviously wrong so I called the vet. By the time she arrived he had tied up and was passing dark brown wee. The vet suspected PSSM. It took an hour to get him 100 yards to his stable and he collapsed just outside. At that point the vet suspected AM. We acted as human dripstands and eventually got him into his stable but the vet didn’t think he could cope travelling to the clinic. The vet left at 1am having been with him for over 5 hours. At 2.30 he went down again. At 3.30 the vet told me his heart was failing and he was PTS.

I moved HP to a different paddock and checked it twice a day for seedlings but a week later out show jumping with his sharer he was very quiet in the warm up and not himself. The vet said bring him straight over. He was at the clinic for a week but he made it.  There were still a few seedlings in the other paddock and although we fenced off a smaller area for him, checked for seedlings twice a day and put out hay we think he still ate some but it must have only been very few. He was on a drip for 5 days.

I ran a fun ride in Jason’s memory in the September to raise money for research. A local tack store kindly donated a goody bag for each rider as a relative of the owner had lost a pony too.