Severe Navicular and Lame - Now giving lessons again!

John Dowdy:                 Hello, and welcome to another Equinety podcast. I am really excited for this week's episode because Danielle Chouteau is someone that I came across commenting on one of our ads that we run on Facebook. And I'm like, "Oh, that's it. I've got to reach out to her and get her on." Because from what I read and I'll read you pieces of this as we get into this podcast, a complete supplement skeptic, which I loved. But her story is even more exciting. So without further ado, welcome to the show Danielle.

Danielle C.:                   Thank you.

John Dowdy:                 Great. Well it's great to have you. As I just mentioned, you had made a comment on one of our ads. I'll quote you right here, saying, "You can honestly saying, I am no means a lover of supplements." So we'll leave that right there. But before we go further, would you mind telling us a little bit of your background? It seems as though you are no stranger to horses or the horse industry.

Danielle C.:                   Yeah, I actually got involved with horses when I was around 10 and started my first colt. I was probably 12, watching John Williams videos and then going out into the round pen and doing what he was doing in the round pen. And then I also have a degree from the University of [inaudible] in equestrian studies. And outside of that, now I run my own small business doing riding lessons for kids and I do birthday parties and I have my own little special herd.

John Dowdy:                 Special herd. Yes, we'll get into that, as well. And I was also excited to find out you're in my stomping grounds of Oklahoma, which is where I grew up, so you're out in the Enid area.

Danielle C.:                   Yes. I am. It's a great area and I can't see ever moving out of it.

John Dowdy:                 That's great. And you love dodging the tornadoes as they're whipping through tornado alley there?

Danielle C.:                   Yeah. Actually, Enid is in a little hole. They always, knock on wood, seem to go right around us. So I've learned to not get too nervous about them, but definitely have learned to watch the weather, as well.

John Dowdy:                 Those are scary. And interestingly enough, in the little town that I grew up in, it was also in a little pocket, so they seemed to always go around us. So that was ... Those things are definitely scary.

John Dowdy:                 So okay. So going back, now you saw this ad. Is this how you were first introduced to the product? Is this where you first learned about the product?

Danielle C.:                   I did. I found it on Facebook. I kind of mentioned my special little herd. I've got a 26-year-old Quarter horse with Cushing's and I have a Quarter horse and a Thoroughbred with navicular. And the Thoroughbred also has ringbone. So half of my horses are half lame. When I found out about Lucy, she's one of my main lesson horses and she's probably 14 years old now. I found out about the navicular two years ago. But it was at the point, I need her for my business and she's [inaudible] for me, so I wanted to find something to help the poor girl out.

Danielle C.:                   So I decided to go ahead and try it, just looking at the Facebook and all the ratings on it, so I figured I'd go ahead and give it a shot.

John Dowdy:                 Yes. Now I mentioned earlier, you had said in your post you were by no means a lover of supplements. As a matter of fact, maybe looking at this as a possible snake oil or something along those lines was your initial impression.

Danielle C.:                   Yeah. I really remember looking at it. And I said, "Oh, hell. It's a hundred bucks.

PSSM, Tying Up, Depression, Severe Abscesses, Weight Loss, Hock

and Stifle Injections, Calcium Deposit, Navicular, Mystery Lame

John Dowdy:     Hello everyone, and I am so excited to have on Katelyn Eddleman in this podcast. This story is absolutely going to blow you away. Katelyn is a professional barrel racer out of Illinois, and the story that she's going to be sharing is, well, something I think everyone should hear, which is why we have her on the show. Katelyn, welcome to the Equinety Podcast.

Katelyn E.:        Hi! Thanks for having me. I'm so excited for everybody to hear my story, and I hope that you get some of those skeptics out there to believe in it, because I know I believe in it, and I'm not one of those people who thinks that supplements are the greatest thing that God invented for us. So I'm so excited.

John Dowdy:     Well, we are excited to have you on and share this story. So let's just dig right into this. Now, we had a little pre-conversation before we jumped on here, just so it halfway sounded like I knew what I was talking about. But as you were telling me, within days of you being born, you were introduced into the equine industry. Tell us about that.

Katelyn E.:        Yeah, my mom is just as horse crazy as I am. She got me started with horses, and I'm pretty sure ... I don't remember this, but I'm pretty sure she told me that the day they brought me home from the hospital, I went out and helped her feed. So I have been around horses my entire life. I'm 23, now, so I've got a few years of knowledge; that I'd love to help other people get started and share that with them.

John Dowdy:     Yeah.

Katelyn E.:        And, yeah.

John Dowdy:     That's awesome. So you did some Western Pleasure, some Gated Horses, but then you fell in love with the Barrel Horse and the adrenine that comes along with that.

Katelyn E.:        Yeah. Yep, I like to go fast.

John Dowdy:     Yes, Ricky Bobby, I think is a reference right there.

Katelyn E.:        Yes! Yeah.

John Dowdy:     Yeah, there you go. So at age 15, you start training your own horses. By age 18, you are a pro.

Katelyn E.:        Yes.

John Dowdy:     Yep.

Katelyn E.:        Yep. So when I was 15, because I've ... My daddy's a farmer. My mom's a nurse. They're just good people from Illinois, and we didn't have the money to go buy these $50,000 barrel horses like I was already competing against in high school rodeo.

So I found this horse from a friend of mine, and he was six years old, and he was really not broke. People had rode him around a round pit a couple times, and my gosh he had an attitude. And I have his brother and his sister and his mother, and they all have the same one, so I know it was just him. And we ended up buying him for $1,400. And like I said, I was 15 and I had been barrel racing since I was seven. I never really trained my own horse, so we thought we'd give it a shot with this one. So trained him. Broke him and trained him, and he ended up qualifying me just a year later for the National High School Finals rodeo in Wyoming. I was fourth in the state of Illinois on him, and I had only ran him for half of that season. I had had another horse I'd ran.

So he brought me up from 11th place to 4th in just half of the rodeo season, so he was a really awesome horse. He's that once in a lifetime horse that you come across, and you know you'll never replace him.

John Dowdy:     So as you are young in your career ... So you're going to six to eight events a month, you've started a training business; ultimately turned into a full-time boarding and training facility, which is what you're doing full-time these days.

But going back to this 1D horse,

Battling Cellulitis and a VERY Picky Eater

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello, and we are back for another Equinety Podcast. In this week's podcast episode, we are going to bring on Charlene Short from Louisiana. Charlene, welcome to the Equinety Podcast.

Charlene Short:             Good morning, and thank you for having me.

John Dowdy:                 Well, it's a pleasure. And when you shared your story with General, who is a 29-year-old off track thoroughbred rescue. I believe I have all that correct.

Charlene Short:             Mm-hmm (affirmative). That is correct.

John Dowdy:                 Okay. So he was battling some cellulitis for quite some time. Tell us about that, and what he was going through.

Charlene Short:             Okay. In Colorado, where we came from, he did not suffer from this. But when we got down here in the heat and humidity it seemed to start. About at least once a month for the last five years, maybe longer than that, he would have these outbreaks, and his left rear leg from hock to fetlock would swell like a tree trunk. It was awful. And the skin would get so tight and seep and occasionally it looked like it was literally going to split.

He lived off of antibiotics and me hosing him and putting poultice on, and all kind of things to try to help him, but he was just painful. So this past November, 2018, I came across this product on Facebook and thought, "Well, I'll try it." And lo and behold it worked wonders.

John Dowdy:                 How fast did you see results when you started the Equinety?

Charlene Short:             Probably within three weeks. The swelling on his leg went down, and we did not have another occurrence until just a couple of weeks ago when we had a really hot night and a really hot day, and the humidity was very high. His leg swelled up, and he literally got down, and we had to prod him to get him up. I put a poultice on his leg and just kept the Equinety going, and within 36 hours, the swelling was gone, he was pain free, and we just hosed him to keep him comfortable. This time we did not have to have antibiotics, where before he just literally lived off of them.

John Dowdy:                 Wow. So for five years battling the cellulitis, since you brought him down to Louisiana from Colorado, so living on antibiotics, and this is just an everyday thing with him. Which you know, being 29 years old and a yard ornament, it seemed like you were having to spend a lot of time just to try to get him comfortable, but nothing seemed to be working.

Charlene Short:             Right.

John Dowdy:                 Yeah.

Charlene Short:             Yeah, he was literally miserable.

John Dowdy:                 Oh, that's horrible. Well, I know a lot of people-

Charlene Short:             Yeah.

John Dowdy:                 A lot of people battle with this kind of a thing, and I know it's frustrating. So the great thing is, and that's one of the reasons I was very excited to have you on, because with being able to find something that helps, and as fast as it did, I mean, you must have been pretty surprised when you saw the swelling go down that fast.

Charlene Short:             I was very surprised and very pleased.

John Dowdy:                 General was probably saying, "Hey, what's going on here?"

Charlene Short:             Yeah. And the nice thing is is he is a very picky eater. When you put things in his food, a lot of times he will just use that big old nose and push it around, and then not eat. But he accepted this right away and we've had no problems. He just goes right along with it every day.

John Dowdy:                 That's great. Okay.

5 Horses with all kinds of issues:

Rain Rot, Severe Heaves, Cushings, Ulcers,

Weight Gain, Shiny Coat, Allergies

 

John Dowdy:                 Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. I am super excited for this one. Now, we're going to swing down into eastern Florida at Ormond Beach. Susanna Raymond, who runs a rescue a facility, S&P Stables Inc. and Horse Rescue. Susanna, welcome to the call.

Susanna Raymond:        Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited about being on this podcast to tell my stories about Equinety and how it's helping our horses here at the rescue.

John Dowdy:                 Oh, that's great. So with you running a rescue facility, tell us how long you've been doing that and what that's been like for the last two and a half years.

Susanna Raymond:        Well, we've been running it for approximately two and a half years here in Ormond Beach. We have approximately 25 horses here in our center now; we have two out in training. We work really hard to get these horses into a good situation, whereas their weight is where it should be, the horses look good, the horses have energy. We're just trying to keep everything going for the benefit of the horses. We have different horses coming in in different states of nutritional value states, some emaciated, some owner surrenders, some agriculture facilities bringing them into us. So we have them coming in and all different states of nourishment.

John Dowdy:                 Right, and as I understand, then today we're going to talk about five different horses that you've got on the Equinety. Let's start with Mr. T, as you refer to him as.

Susanna Raymond:        Tyrone.

John Dowdy:                 Tell us about him.

Susanna Raymond:        Tyrone came in as an owner surrender. There was two horses. The other horse was in very good shape. Tyrone was very underweight. He also suffers with a very large thyroid goiter, it's about the size of [inaudible 00:02:03] on his neck; emaciated; rain rot; and very minimal teeth. Truthfully, we were really afraid of how his outcome was going to be because he is a senior horse. He's 23 years old and you know, having minimal teeth, it makes it very difficult as far as feeding wise. You have to soak the meals and everything like that.

But we started him on the Equinety because we were doing him some reading up on it and I said, "Well, maybe this would be worth trying for him since he has such little teeth and maybe we can see something." We were starting him off on the two scoops a day, and little by little, we were seeing the change. I mean, he blossomed totally. Totally different coat. I mean his coat was so rain rotted that we were afraid that we weren't going to get that shine back. He's blossomed; nine weeks and he is blossomed to this beautiful Arabian ...

John Dowdy:                 On our website, which is at teamequinety.com ... and we're going to have this podcast listed on there, and it's also listed on iTunes and Spotify and some other places as well ... But on our website below this podcast, we'll have everything transcribed. I'm also gonna put some pictures of Tyrone on there because I'm looking at them right now and holy smokes, he does not look good. What the first pictures that you sent me and the after pictures, it doesn't even look like the same horse.

Susanna Raymond:        Correct, and that was just it. That first picture, the one that he's so emaciated looking, that was on his first day here. We were cleaning him up, giving him a bath, turning out his mane because it's all mangled, and cleaning up his tail as well. The second picture is him on the Equinety now with us for nine weeks.

John Dowdy:                 Wow.

Monty had - Abscess - Thrush - Cellulitis -

Heat Stroke - Mystery Lameness

John:                            Hello and welcome to another exciting Equinety podcast. This is one that I've been looking forward to for quite some time, as we've been running this ad for actually quite awhile on Monty, who is a 19 year old thoroughbred gelding. We're just going to jump right into this one because this was one of those that had my jaw beyond my desk, right on to the floor when I received these videos. Without further ado, let's welcome the owner of Monty, Larissa Norris. Larissa, welcome to the show.

Larissa Norris:               Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's such a pleasure.

John:                            Well, we're glad to have you on here. Let's go back and let's get right into this. By the way, below this podcast on our website, this entire thing will be transcribed. We're going to have the videos, before and after, of Monty so people can see what we're talking about. What was going on with Monty prior to you giving me a phone call?

Larissa Norris:               Well, we started off as, we found a nail out in the pasture somehow. Of course, that happens here and there. It ended up turning into an abscess which led to thrush and cellulitis, went all the way up his leg. He wasn't putting his foot on the ground. It started off, he'd just stand on the tiptoe and he eventually never even put it down. He would not touch it on the ground at all. We were quite concerned. We've contacted multiple vets and the farrier was working with him. We had really, really almost given up on him. It was awesome to be able to find something to finally help him.

John:                            This was the video that you sent me and this is what we're going to have posted at the teamEquinety.com website, is you can Monty. He cannot put any weight whatsoever on that back left leg. At that time you had called me, because he had also, during all of this, also had a heatstroke.

Larissa Norris:               Yes. He had a heatstroke after ... We had been giving him different antibiotics. He was actually on antibiotics three times a day. It ended up we backed it down to two times a day and he was just having no improvement, really. He maybe put it on the toe again one day, but then the next day he wasn't walking on it again. He disappeared completely. We had him in a little run in and he was in a dry lot, but he never left the lean to. He had fans and everything and he disappeared. We thought, "Where did he go?"

Larissa Norris:               We looked and looked and looked for him and he was back as far as you can get in the back pasture. This is not even where any of the horses go. He was hiding in a brush area, far back. He wouldn't come to us. We couldn't get him to walk out, anything. That's when we called the vet out again and that's when he was diagnosed with the heatstroke. He was very odd. I've never seen a horse have a heatstroke. It was definitely different. We had to totes him back to the barn and treat that also. He still, even with vet care, he wasn't really improving. That's when we had really had to make the decision of what we were going to have to do with him.

John:                            It was at that time that you had called me because you had come across one of our ads that we were running on Facebook. You had told me the story about Monty and everybody from the vets, the farriers, I mean you had tried everything that you knew to do. Everybody's scratching their head. If memory serves me correctly, you said that you just purchased some Equinety and this is going to be make or break for Monty. That was going to be it, if this didn't work.

Larissa Norris:               It was.

John:                            Yes.

Therapy Horses - 7 Horses - 7 Issues -

7 Incredible Stories - Horses of Warriors

 

John:                            Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. I am so excited this week to have on Jamie Franklin. He's the founder and president of an organization out in California called The Horses of Warriors that helps combat veterans that are battling PTSD, and uses these horses to really help them cope with the things that they've been through and get them back into the life.

John:                            And not only is that an exciting thing in and of itself, Jamie had reached out to me and he's got some amazing stories with the horses that they have at their farm, because these horses are vital to being in their tip top shape, helping these veterans. And so he told me about his horse, Jake. And then he says, "Well, I've got stories of six other horses." Tell you what, let's just welcome Jamie to the show. Jamie, welcome.

Jamie Franklin:              Thank you, John. I'm excited to be here and share my story about our horses, and how the product has helped them significantly.

John:                            That's exciting. Well, I tell people all the time, when people go to our website and they hear and read the different things that the Equinety Horse XL does for horses, it's like, "Well, how can this do so many things for so many different horses?" And I often tell the story of well, if you have 12 horses with 12 different issues, it's going to customize to each horse, while at the same time there'll be commonalities across the board.

John:                            And so as we started talking, I'm like, "Ah, I got to have you on this podcast because although we're not talking 12 horses, we're talking seven horses and a dog, mind you." So let's get right into this. You started The Horse of Warriors about a year ago, and then you're bringing in different horses from rescues and donations and things like this. And you've tried to do the best you can out there with what you have, and you know. But you have to have these horses in tip top shape. You need to do trail riding and different things. Tell us a little bit about just that aspect of it, and what you're doing with your horses. And then we'll get right into your main horse, Jake.

Jamie Franklin:              Sure. Like you said, we started last year, May of last year. And this program is for combat veterans who suffer from PTSD as well as all veterans. We made available to all veterans, and their families free to them. So this is a free to them. And we do have seven horses, and it's basically our program is set up to where it's just the camaraderie of that veterans hanging out with each other, and being around the horses. And the horses help heal veterans from the PTSD and whatever they're going through; the bonding and whatnot.

Jamie Franklin:              And we just take veterans on high country trail rides. We also do a grand entrance at rodeos and parades, and a lot of folks like to participate in that. Some don't, right up front. And we try to provide good, sound riding horses for them. And sometimes that's hard to do. But the product has helped significantly with the horses that we have that have issues.

John:                            Right. Now we're going to go through these things that happen with these different horses, and I want to get talking back into more specifics about The Horses of Warriors, and how they help. And I just find it absolutely fascinating. And if you're not up to speed on these types of programs, please stay tuned because this is, it's really, really amazing how these horses help in the way that they do. So the horse that you ride is a 17 year old Arabian quarter horse named Jake. And what was going on with Jake? I understand he had an older injury,

Equinety Helps Severe EPM -

Reining - Lame issues - Faster Recovery

 

Speaker 1:                    Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. We are going to the land down under and talking with our guest this week, Tania Gibson who is- splits her time between Tennessee, her home here in the States and back home in Australia. So without further ado, Tania, welcome to the show.

Tania Gibson:                Hi thank you very much. I'm excited to talk to you about how my journey has been with your product Equinety for sure.

Speaker 1:                    Well that's great and were excited to have you and I know we're gonna get a little bit into your background but this podcast is going to be based around something a lot of people have questions about which is EPM and you have one of your good horses that has kind of battled that through the years. And also in your sport of reining there's a lot of lameness issues and all kinds of things there to keep those horses healthy because it's a pretty demanding sport. But before [crosstalk 00:00:56] before we get into that, why don't you just spend a little bit of time and tell us a little bit about your background, how you got started in the horse industry and where you are now.

Tania Gibson:                Okay, too easy. I'll make it as short and sweet as I can. I grew up in central Queensland in Australia which is in the cattle country. My dad was on cattle stations, and then we got into the coal mining industry. Always had horses, my dad always [inaudible 00:01:22] stuff like that, mainly we did cow work more than anything.

Tania Gibson:                Campdrafting is a big sport back home so I grew up in that field. When I left school at 15 I went on a cattle property so. Hence I campdrafted for ages. Had my kids, got married, kept in the campdraft world, done a bit of bower racing, that sort of thing, and then eventually we too got into the coal mining industry, bought a property and I did actually start to see reining probably in the early or mid 90's rather. And then by the late 90's/early 2000's I looked a little bit more at the AQHA reining, we didn't have a lot of reining in our area.

Tania Gibson:                So I stepped out of the campdraft world into the western performance world I guess you could say. And from there I moved up into reining, traveled 11 hours four times a year to go to major shows. And from there ended up training probably 2007. Moved to the States in 2013 to further my education in the reining being that over here is way way bigger than over home and then from Westboro moved to Tennessee where I met my husband of now and have been here ever since pretty much.

Tania Gibson:                And yeah I split my time up between going home and I still have coaching and training things back home. Probably more so over home than here. Just a little hard to get into when you're not really anybody. It's a big industry over here but I'm learning heaps and that's the main thing.

Speaker 1:                    Sure.

Tania Gibson:                That's sort of about me, yep.

Speaker 1:                    So you put on a lot of clinics and travel back and forth back home to Australia.

Tania Gibson:                Yes.

Speaker 1:                    Right.

Tania Gibson:                Yep. When I go home for four weeks it's pretty much my feet hit the ground from that plane and I start work until I leave, yeah.

Speaker 1:                    [crosstalk 00:03:13] And for those who have never flown to Australia from the middle of America, Tennessee how long of a journey is that?

Tania Gibson:                Usually you know by the time you get in the car, get to where you’re going to start and then get back...

Nacho - Hock issues - arthritis- severe back pain - no injections!

 

John Dowdy:     Hello, and welcome to another Equinety podcast. This is your host, John Dowdy, and I'm really excited to share with everyone this amazing Equinety story. This is from [Gracie Hayes 00:00:12] out of Kentucky, and she's got an eight-year-old off the track Thoroughbred by the name of Nacho. And some of you may have seen these ads running across the internet for quite some time, because this story is really amazing. And without further ado, Gracie, welcome to the show.

Gracie:             Thank you for having me.

John Dowdy:     Well, it's our pleasure. And these videos that you sent me have really caused a lot of banter and communications, and all kinds of excitement from people, because ... well, when you first sent them to me, I was pretty amazed by it. And just the things that your horse was going through, and ... Well, let's just tell that story. So Nacho is an eight-year-old off the track Thoroughbred. Well, he was trained to be Hunter/Jumper, and that's when you got him. Is that pretty much right on board?

Gracie:             Yeah. Well, he knew how to ride, walk, short canter, and I had done a lot of the Hunter/Jumper stuff with him whenever I got him.

John Dowdy:     Okay. And then, you kind of continued that on? Or what did you do with him at that point?

Gracie:             Yes. When I got him, I had started riding him more and more, and then I started doing more Hunter/Jumper and a little bit of traveling cross country, and some trails. He wasn't any kind of three-foot, four-foot jumper, but he knew his job.

John Dowdy:     And you told me earlier that he was a bit of a firecracker when you first got him.

Gracie:             Yes. He was definitely a bit like a dragon when you were riding him.

John Dowdy:     Okay. So you were kind of enjoying Nacho in the beginning stages, a bit of a firecracker, and everything's going along in your training schedule. And then one day, he just kind of comes up a little lame? Tell us about that.

Gracie:             Yes. I had noticed he had started getting a little bit stiff and uncomfortable under saddle. And I had noticed that it had kind of gotten a little worse, so I kind of stopped riding him, doing some ground work with him. And then it was like in a week, he just came up lame. Like that video, he came out of the stall and he was just dead lame. And of course, I had contacted a vet, and the vet had suggested that if there was any way I could avoid injections or anything, that I should try that first. So that's whenever I had gotten ahold of Equinety.

John Dowdy:     Yeah. Now for those that are tuning in for the first time, we are going to post these videos at our website, which is teamequinety.com, and then you'll click on the "Podcast" link at the top of the menu button there, and then you can find the specific podcast about Nacho. And then below the podcast, we'll have everything transcribed, along with some videos of Nacho, at teamequinety.com.

John Dowdy:     So when you had the vet come out, what was the vet saying about Nacho, other than what you had just mentioned about maybe not giving injections. But what did he think that the problem was?

Gracie:             He had pinpointed that his hocks were bothering him. They were stiff, maybe a little bit of arthritis. You know, when you get an off the track Thoroughbred, they've been so much anyways, to training as young horses, that they could have problems with their muscling or joints. And he had pinpointed his hock was stiff. He didn't really want to inject his joint just right off the bat, because he said once you inject, you could possibly be injecting for life. So he said,

From Stressed and Dangerous to Happy and Pleasant

John Dowdy:     Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. This is your host, John Dowdy, and I am really excited to have on our guest out of South Carolina, and her name is Missouri. And back in November of last year, that would be 2018, she was given a horse for free by the name of Grey. There was lots of issues going on, just always pulling and moving around, and she'd have to tack him up just to get on him. Couldn't groom him. Just kind of a headcase and a real mess.

John Dowdy:     A lot of things going on. Well, I guess instead of me telling you all about Grey, why don't we go ahead and bring Missouri on the show. Missouri, welcome.

Missouri:          Hi.

John Dowdy:     Hi. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your Equinety story.

Missouri:          No problem. I'm glad to be here.

John Dowdy:     Good deal. Okay, so kind of give us some background and tell us about Grey.

Missouri:          Well, Grey was given to me in November from a friend who had pretty much gotten to the end of her rope with him. He was pretty unruly on the ground. He would pace fence lines. You couldn't really keep them in a stall, and he's quite big. He's 18, one hand. So, he was just a handful.

Missouri:          I acquired Grey and nothing was working to calm him down. I couldn't groom him. He was great under saddle walk, trot, canter, but as far as on the ground, I couldn't even pick his feet out, couldn't curry him or brush him or do anything because he just wouldn't be still.

Missouri:          And he would run you over; if you tried to put him in the stall, he would bolt out of the stall and run you over. He would bolt over you in the pasture or in the cross ties even. And so, I didn't know what to do. And so, a client was feeding his older horse, Equinety, and he suggested that I try it and he said, "Well here, take some of mine and try it out."

John Dowdy:     Oh so, you talked to your friend out of some Equinety?

Missouri:          Yes.

John Dowdy:     That is one good friend.

Missouri:          Yeah. My client gave me three big scoops of it so I can try it. And it worked. It was like five to eight days I saw this huge difference. I could brush him, it was amazing. And so, I started riding him. And then, the bad weather here hit and so we didn't get a lot of ride time in.

John Dowdy:     Right. Okay. So, let's back up just a little bit. So, just to recap what you're saying. So, under saddle, perfectly fine?

Missouri:          Yes.

John Dowdy:     But then, not under saddle, watch out because it's a danger, dangerous thing waiting to happen here.

Missouri:          And even if you put a chain on him, it didn't matter. It didn't. And he wouldn't like hand graze. He was just a lunatic.

John Dowdy:     Did you have any history or?

Missouri:          She had had him a year before she gave him to me and he was given to her also.

John Dowdy:     Oh, just kind of being passed around them.

Missouri:          Yeah. So, he's been passed around. He's only 11. He has scars all over his body from whatever. I don't know if he has gone through fences before.

John Dowdy:     And you think also that his face had been fractured or broken?

Missouri:          Yes. When he was in possession of my friend who had him before me, she came to the farm one day and his whole face was blood, and he had this small little puncture on his cheek and she had it x-rayed and he had fractured his face. He actually had to have surgery because he was breathing out of the hole in his face 'cause it had like hit the sinus cavity. It was really bad.

Broken Back - Suspensory Injury, West Nile Virus

and Regularly Scheduled Injections

 

John D.:            Hello and welcome to another Equinety podcast. This is your host John Dowdy, and I am so excited to share this podcast with you because the challenges that Jordan, our guest, has been through personally with a potentially career-ending back injury while at the same time her really good barrel horse had a sympathy injury with a suspensory injury. So it's pretty amazing and very, very inspiring to anyone listening to this one.

John D.:            So without further ado, let's go ahead and welcome Jordan to the show.

Jordan:             Thank you, John. I'm really excited to be here and tell my story.

John D.:            Good deal. Well, we are really excited. And I tell you what, when you shared this with me my jaw was on the table more than a few times.

John D.:            As we go back in your ... Well, let's give a little bit of history of how you started, which you started riding 100 jumpers when you were around five years old. And as you told me, after three or four years it just wasn't enough of an adrenaline rush for you, so you got into barrel racing.

Jordan:             Yes. I did.

John D.:            And then you had picked up on that. It seemed to just come very natural to you. Then you started training your own horses, and then as you get into your late teens you had a potentially career-ending back injury. Tell us about that.

Jordan:             I had a horse ... I was roping that day and we put [Ivory 00:01:39], the horse, around the track and told me to go put him on the hot walker to cool her off, and so I did that. I ponied her over there, so I tied my horse up to the corral and put her on the hot walker and she just freaked out. She had been on it before, I don't know what happened that day. You know, you never know with horses.

Jordan:             But she did pull back and I was trying to lower a little bit and before I knew it I just heard a big clamp, and I turned around halfway and all of a sudden the hot walker, she pulled it down. And it hit my back, hit my neck, hit my L4 and L5, and my leg. I laid there for about 10 minutes until they realized that horse is loose, something happened.

John D.:            Right. Good night. So about 10 minutes, and so you're laying there trying to figure out what even happened.

Jordan:             Yes.

John D.:            Wow. So-

Jordan:             I looked up and I seen them looking in the pasture for me, and one guy rode over by the barn and I was screaming and crying to get this thing off of me.

John D.:            No doubt. So you go get everything checked out, and what did they tell you at the hospital?

Jordan:             They told me I broke my L4 and L5, and they didn't test me for any nerve damage, so they released me. And then the night after, I had a really bad shocking pain and I tried to get out of bed and that's when it happened. I called one of my friends and I told them to call 911.

Jordan:             My roommate finally heard me crying and she ran downstairs. They called 911 and the ambulance got there and they took me back to the hospital the day after to find out that my left leg was paralyzed I guess from trying to get up when I shouldn't have.

John D.:            Oh goodness. Wow.

Jordan:             But I shouldn't have been released out of the hospital.

John D.:            No. No, it does not sound like it. So you are now paralyzed from the waist down. And now at the same time your really good black barrel horse had a suspensory injury, so he's out of work essentially and you actually start him on the Equinety during this...