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Up To Dates!

once again I am a bad blogger…no time and no laptop at home, makes for little to no blogging!

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Update

Holy CRAP! Time just goes flying by and before you realize it, its been a month since I last posted. WOW!

A lot has gone on, as usual because my life is never quite. My mom has been in and out of the hospital, so I have been dealing with that. She almost lost her life three weeks ago, got out for a week and then went back in for a week. It has been tough, balancing work, pony, hospital and life. I havent gotten to see Roo much and that sucks, but at least I have a friend that was keeping him in work for me.

I have an offer on Roo as of yesterday, its pending a vet check and week trial. He goes out for the vet check and trial in three weeks. I didnt get my original asking price, but I got what I needed and more than I paid for him.

He new mom is going to be a 13 year old girl that is a very nice rider. Her trainer is out of this world spectacular. I loved him. He rode like a dream, very fair and patient. Beautiful hands and incredible use of seat and legs. He had Roo together and looking gorgeous in about five minutes. I am very excited about this, it should be a good match and if it falls through, then he will just stay.

Hopefully I still have a couple of readers…I will try to update more over the coming weeks…

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Abcess Part 2

So I had my farrier out today to dig around in the hoof and see what is going on with his hoof.  I got out to the barn before my farrier so I unwrapped the foot and tried to snap some pics holding the hoof myself, it didnt go too well.   Thankfully my farrier is very patient and let me snap pics as he worked.

(kinda gross and graphic…just an fyi)

This is before he cut the frog down.

With the frog pulled back a bit:

See the yellow right below his thumb?  Thats what we are trying to get at.

After the frog has been removed:

Closer up:

See it?  Up close to the heel bulb?  The yellowish-greenish spot.  My farrier said that is part of the under frog and if he cuts it away it will bleed.  He thinks its a prolapsed frog?  I know two farriers read my blog…is that possible????  I kept saying that it just looks infection but he feels that its inflected flesh, not just an infection pocket.  Also there was puss coming up through the heel bulb today, so he thinks that this started as an abcess and now has just taken a turn for the worse.  The vet is coming out tomorrow…lucky me.

(ignore the long toes.  He is due to be done this week.)

Do I even have any readers left?

I know.  I am bad.  I will blame it on the broken arm.  Yes, kids…I have a broken arm.  Broke it three weeks ago Friday.  Thankfully, only two hairline fractures.  It is much better than it has been, but now I have been over doing.  I got kicked in the arm by an arab gelding at the barn.  He squirrled before I could get out of the way.  At least it wasnt worse and he didnt get my head.

Several things have happened.

Roo is up for sale.  Yeah…it sucks, but I have too.  I am not completely sold on selling him, but I have to do want is right for my financial health.  Fortunately, there might be a possibility that he is going to stay with me, but owned by a friend.  I will ride, train and show him….the family will just own him and pay his bills.  They will keep him for their daughter for when she grows up.  The details are not all worked out…but is a definate possibility.

Roo has a new rider.  This wonderful women who is a third level rider and a trainer in her own right.  She rides him three days a week for me.  They are such a pair.  I might have her take him out to a schooling show in April.

BUT Roo has an abcess right now.  Good god does it suck.  He is so big and strong, holding up that big back leg and trying to clean out the crevice and under the frog is exteremly difficult.  I did it okay yesterday.  45 minutes of being knocked around and trying to hang on to that leg so he didnt get the idea that kicking his foot around means I am going to let go, made me very very sore today.  I had to do the hoof again today and it was difficult.  I could hardly hold it.  My arms and back were so very sore.  My left arm (which is the broken one) was buring and hurting so very bad.  I finally got it done and wrapped up.  When I set that hoof down, I was so grateful to be done.

Hopefully a few more days and he will be over this.

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Friday Arguement Session and Saturday Lesson

Friday it was my intention to do a light lunging.  Well good intentions die hard.  Roo had no intention of being a good pony on the end of the lunge.  I was very sick and weak, so I attempted to let Jamie lunge him.  Roo was having none of it.  So, I had to it.

Every time we changed directions the “bad corner” became evil all over again.  It was ridiculous.  I gave him back to Jamie after 30 minutes of lunging to put my riding gear on.  I gave instructions to do lots of trot/canter transitions.  He was sweaty by the time I got on.

Got in the tack, and he was a FREAK about that corner.  Everytime we switched directions we had to have another agrument about it.  For crying out loud get over it!  I finally got him to settle and had a fairly decent ride.

Unfortunately for me, I was unable to lunge before my lesson on Saturday.  Which actually was okay.  We had a major arguement about that corner, but just lots of hopping and spinning, nothing too terrible.  My trainer gave me the homework of no lunging before riding this week.  Get on and ride.  She thinks I am giving him too much time to look around and think, so I have to get on and put him to work.

We did lots of lateral work, lots of shoulder-in and some work on the pirouettes, mainly because we were working on down transitions from the canter.  The lesson was fantastic and has me wanting to be in the tack again.

My trainer loves Roo and sees his immense potential.  I cant wait to be out there showing.