{"id":1591,"date":"2009-05-10T18:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2012-04-29T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T07:36:25","slug":"equine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Equine news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upshot of <a title=\"Email to the vet\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=1561\" target=\"_blank\">my email to the vet<\/a> is, unsurprisingly, a swift diagnosis that Vin is a photic headshaker; he has a sensitivity to light. This diagnosis has been backed up by a second opinion from my former vet in Somerset.<\/p>\n<p>When this condition is evident Vin shouldn&#8217;t be ridden. There are eye-drops which may possibly help manage the condition (and I&#8217;ve been sent some) and there is a nose-net which may conceivably help (I&#8217;ve bought one), but the bottom line is that because of the onset of this condition Vin&#8217;s competitive days are pretty much over.<\/p>\n<p>My poor boy.<\/p>\n<p>Except he&#8217;s not a poor boy, of course. He&#8217;ll still get ridden when the conditions allow and he&#8217;ll still get carrots galore shoved down his neck at every available opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s simply beginning premature competitive retirement; he still has a future as a part-time fun horse in front of him. And a fun horse he is.<\/p>\n<p>However the goal of Eventing looks to have sidestepped me once again.<\/p>\n<p>Except.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a horse for sale I know about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upshot of my email to the vet is, unsurprisingly, a swift diagnosis that Vin is a photic headshaker; he has a sensitivity to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}