Paraplegic Foal Update: Lucky as a Long Yearling

Lucky isn’t completely back to normal, but he’s close enough that his owners are happy with the result.
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Last year we brought you the unique story of Lucky, a Quarter Horse foal rendered paraplegic at about two weeks of age by an abscess pressing on his spinal cord. Veterinarians at North Carolina State University devised a special treatment for his abscess, and with the help of his devoted owners, he pulled through. Today at more than 17 months of age, Lucky isn’t completely back to normal and may never be, but he’s close enough that his owners are happy with the result (and he’s continuing to improve).

"He’s walking good and he acts like a racehorse with his halter and chain on; he always wants to go fast," says his owner Anita Powell, of Clayton, N.C.

Lucky targets the camera with his horse ball

Lucky, clearly no longer paraplegic despite lingering incoordination in his hind end, works out with his horse ball

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Christy West has a BS in Equine Science from the University of Kentucky, and an MS in Agricultural Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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