Layup

Question
In January I took my filly to a farm for layup hoping to bring her back after 90
days rest (12 races in 12 months). Now 90 days later she looks terrible. In
visiting her, she looks worst than ever (skinny, dull coat). I would suspect the
farm, however I have 3 other horses that are fine and happy. We floated her
teeth, gave her a 5 day treatment of Panacur and she gets daily Platnum
Performance vitamins and is on grass pasture and alfalfa. Her blood work is
normal. Any ideas as to why she would look worse. My trainer uses
Clenbuterol to train on a daily basis and I am not sure what the let down
timeframe is.As far as I know, no other steroids were used. I want to bring her
back for Del Mar, however I would like her to look better before putting her
back into training.
Thanks

Answer
hi. well sometimes a change of area, feed and lack of training can change a horses attitude etc. you sound like you did everything you could to try to find out what was wrong with the horse with out any results. did your trainer keep her on any hormone??  sometimes the withdrawal of a certain type of hormone, will make the horse look awful, with weight loss etc. a a anabolic hormone such as WINSTROL etc. we had a fillie that was similar to your fillie and she had worms, but nothing helped her, so the vet wormed with 10 X the worm medicine and it finally got her back to health. if all else fails and this is my own idea for you to try, is contact a physic and have them come read the horse, they can sense a problem that no vet can find in a horse. i have used this method with great success . i hope this helps you  thanks ED HESS