Boyd Martin’s four-star mount Neville Bardos has been started back into work with light riding according to Martin’s blog. 

In an update on the horses affected by the devastating fire at Phillip Dutton’s True Prospect Farm that claimed the lives of six horses and an estimated $100,000 of equipment, Martin wrote that he took “Neville” on a 20-minute hack.

The chestnut gelding’s healing has progressed well as he has been spending an hour a day in a hyperbaric chamber of highly oxygenated air after sustaining burns in his esophagus and wind pipe from smoke inhalation.

Minotaure du Passoir has had a more strenuous recovery after a violent bout of colic sent him into emergency surgery for a colon resection at the George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa.

“Min is deceptive because he’s such a perky, happy horse that he seems like he’s OK when really something is still not right,” said the gelding’s owner Amy Lindgren.

He came home briefly after the surgery but went back to New Bolton on June 22 after he showed some symptoms of colic.

“I think he left New Bolton too soon last time,” said Lindgren.

The three other horses that survived the fire are recovering well. Otis Barbotiere has begun walking under tack again as he continues to heal from superficial burns.  

Catch A Star, owned by Caitlin Silliman, has also been spending time in the hyperbaric chamber at the Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center and continues to show signs of improvement.

Ambassador’s Rose was the least injured of the horses and has competed since the fire at Plantation Field (Pa.) and was subsequently sold.