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  Tuesday!! The best day. And the weather was gorgeous today too.    I lessoned with Lyric first and was able to get to Ashland early enough to do a 40 minute hack before hand. We hit the trails and did a little bit of trotting. We did a fair amount of hills. I did try to take her to the fallen tree log to jump it too but Ashland had already cut it down and moved it over. Darn.    We made our way up to the arena and warmed up. Then we got to jumping. It was a good lesson. We worked on bending lines and swooping turns with changes of direction. We started warming up over a vertical and then we did a two stride. And Lyric was pretty forward and brave. And I only jumped up her neck once. But by golly it was a bad one. Ha ha. Luckily it was over the warm up baby vertical and she jumped it anyways. Doh! Nothing like surfin' on your horses' neck in front of your trainer. But that was the only time I did it! I may have tipped my shoulders a hair other times but not jum...
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Still sound!

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  Sound! But... still a bit fussy.  Today we met Laura after her lesson with Kelly E. Hopefully I can get back to it soon too. And we went for a hack. I did her prehab before our ride... although no poles to walk her over, so I just did some leg yield to the left and then the quicker right turns to engage that left front. Plus, last night I biomechanic taped it. We had a nice hack with Laura and Smartie. Lyric loves him. We just followed along. Smartie is about the only horse that's fast enough to outwalk mine. It was nice to catch up with Laura. I miss my Tuesday jump lessons with her and Julia.    After the hack I took Lyric to the arena to play a little bit and see how she felt. And.. she felt sound. She did lose her hind end a few times... and she did get fussy with connection. But she felt mostly sound. We started out okay and had a decent ride. Not as good as in my lesson, but decent. But then as we went along, she got fussier. I do think I got in my head and g...
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Beautiful day for PT

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  Today was a lovely day. Sunshine, no humidity, occasional breeze, albeit a hair chilly. We ended up sleeping in and then going to Gibbs Garden for date day. Which meant that it was 4 pm when we got home. I could have gone to Ashland but... I decided that it might be better to drag the arena and move the poles down to the roundpen so I could do my rehab on everyone easily. And then hopefully I would have time to rehab both horses. (Dan got skipped today on purpose). So that's what I did. I figured I could go to Ashland with both ponies tomorrow, even though it's supposed to be dreary.  So... after the arena was drug (ahhhh, such a nice feeling!) I put out the barrel and then set the blocks upright for two jumps. But I didn't get as far as setting up a grid. I'll do that tomorrow maybe... besides.. if I take both girls to Ashland tomorrow.. then have lessons at Ashland Tuesday... then have to work Thursday.. I won't get to ride til Friday and that's the vet visi...
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Help from Liz

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  Today was lesson day with Liz! So helpful!  Luckily Lyric and Dan came when I called so I didn't have to walk all the way back up to the arena to get Lyric. I tacked her up and we headed up to the arena. I jogged her around the arena once to loosen her up and then Liz looked at her. She said she didn't feel that weird toxic feel anymore, so yay for that! (Although I may test her for Lyme just in case). She felt some heat just above her knee caudally... said if felt more like tennis elbow... like nerve pain/tension type pain. And she felt like that was making it uncomfortable for her to pull her limb foreward and push off of it, thus she was dumping onto her front right... which now has a new medial high splint. Argh... like... new today I think! Or the last day or two. And then she said her hocks were sore, especially the left. And a little bit of soreness over her TL junction in her spine.  So we started with some groundwork. I walked her over the poles but we drifted ...
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Still lame

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 grrrr even rode in the jump saddle but definitely lame and unhappy. And hind end not happy. bottomed out tracking left 3 times and then really hard once tracking right. gave up after that.  maybe she needs the way longer warm up? Maybe she needs harder footing? Maybe she was sore from yesterday? ???? rode at home.. cold and chilly
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Long fun hack

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 went to CE with Sharon today since Ashland was a zoo ;) Full of aliens and bees and minions. ;) Spooked at toilet paper. good with the gunshots. fun. rode in jump saddle. felt sound but only trotted straight lines. but much more marchy in the walk even
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