Fu Man Slew (Click here for Past Performances)

Fu Man Slew at his new home Here is a picture from Fu's first pasture time. He's out there with Patrick's Slew an old horse of Dennis O'Neill that Doug trained. I got him via TB Friends a few years back.

Carla B. rescued and rehabbed Fu Man Slew off the track and is currently building an additional barn to house horses for rehab. Carla has generously agreed to join the Neigh Savers network although her facility is in Nevada.

As of today Carla reports that Fu is great, sound and ready for riding. Carla also says as far as rehabs go his was pretty basic and lucky for us the surgery was a huge success. A slab fracture is pretty mild compared to some of the injuries these race horses endure.

Below is a copy of Carla's text on Fu and a wonderful photo of him prancing in his paddock.

"Hi Everyone,
For those that have been following the progress of Fu Man Slew on his road back to recovery it was a great day today. The vet cleared him for light trot work on the longe line, to the left only at this point to keep his injured leg on the outside and taking less strain. I had him out earlier in the week just to see if he had a clue what to do on the longe line and he was a a bit confused but he figured it out. Today he went out and got half a dozen trips around at the trot. He was oh so proud of himself afterwards and had to prance back to the barn. Nice to know Fu's ego is very intact, although I told him that a little bit of trot work doesn't justify such a big head. The leg looked great and now our goal is to add some trot work 3 - 4 times a week and gradually lengthen the time and hopefully he will stay sound. Either way the surgery was a success as the quality of his life has improved vastly. To think he couldn't walk sound before this!"



October 21, 2007

Let's see, catch you up on our end here. Barn in limbo as the guy putting it up has now going deer hunting for 2 weeks. So we have concrete poured but nothing up. I rode Fu for the first time a few weeks back and he got his first ever turn out in the "pasture" (aka fenced off acres of sagebrush). I'm oh so happy on that as I said if I could ever ride him and if he could be turned out with the other horses the surgery would be considered a success.