Winter Music

  Ugh...  Managed to sneak in a short ride on Lyric today... I shouldn't have bothered. She felt like crap. We hacked up to the arena and I let her walk around for a few. She was sniffing the ground and investigating. Silly!    Then I picked up the trot and she was not happy. She was fussy and chompy and rooty again. And she feels lame behind now. She also is super sluggish and doesn't feel like she wants to go. If I dared to encourage her more forward with anything other than a cluck or a squeeze, like even a bump with my leg, she would buck or kick out. Sigh... We cantered but honestly, I was a little afraid to ask her to canter. I felt like she was going to buck into it or go into a bucking spree. She didn't, but she didn't feel good in the canter either.    I decided then to do the raised walk poles but I walked them, the trotted around to them again, then walked through them and repeated. We did it 3 times each way. And she started to feel a little bet...

 Fun hack with sharon. Held left hind in air again good ride though. not forging but a few steps here and there trotted pretty decently but maybe felt lame?? assymetric? But then spooked, so who knows?

 lesson. BRRRRR. 9:30 am and windchill of 19. but not too bad in arena. tacked up quick and hacked along edge of XC to get to arena. wanted longer walk warm up but didn't get up early enough. did a lot of stretchy trot on the buckle once in arena. she started out sluggish and bracey and lost her hind end at least 6 times. Hard!! Like made divots in the arena hard. cantered her and she got better and only lost her hind end once (after we jumped the grid a time or two). felt more forward and happy after we cantered.  rule outs: muscle myopathy, cold and tight, tight in general, KS, stifle stuff but seems more neuro than stifle, neuro, ?? then did canter poles and was game to reach for them. then slowly raised small jumps. talked with jacel. Jumping off hind end... really sitting and pushing. jumping straight. jumping out of stride. So... not inclined to think hind end, despite the falling out. and odd that she gets better with work and jumping, which again... doesn't lend toward...

 Long hack day, galloped, 28 mph. not that fast. but felt fast! felt pretty good but did stop with LH in the air for a few seconds first starting out. much more forward and marching but forging like crazy, walk and trot today. w/t/c in xc field. no arenas today.  had to sponge her off! And like her in the memory foam girth too

 Day off. kind of off on her own.  happy to eat carrots and apples, but... ?? looks more nike swooshed in her back again.  hoping to trail ride tomorrow and maybe do a little flat work to see

Quick lunge christmas eve with equiband good girl, sound, but still fairly short strided. did reach out and stretch over raised trot poles, so that's encouraging. and i think she was lunging better while I wasn't videoing. but still concerning... photos: christmas eve lunge video