We did stem cell treatments on a four year-old gelding horse, with 16 starts at the time, that suffered a torn suspensory (vet rated the tear a 7 out of 10). He was away from the races for about 14 months. He won his return (matching prior speed figure top) and raced three more times before having to be retired earlier this year (at age six) due to a soft tissue injury to the other leg.
Talked to a lot of people about it, and I've never been certain if it was the stem cell therapy, giving the horse a lot of time off, or a combination of both that allowed the horse to come back as well as he did. The whole stem cell process only cost about $3,000.
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