Pillar work time

 So, now that Dan is off stall rest, I can breathe again and do things other than clean stalls and walk him. :) Which means, now it's time to get serious about getting Lyric going. Plus, she's had two weeks or so to settle in. She's being treated for ulcers and is gaining weight. She will get her teeth done on the 28th. So, I figured that I would do pillar work until then, and work on lunging some and maybe even pony her off Dan at Ashland to introduce her to things at Ashland and on XC. But first we'll start at home. :) Then, after her teeth... it'll be October and then I can pretty much start riding her! If I do two rides a week, that should keep me following the 15 rides or less before Dec 1st. But, that means that we've got to get serious about our pillar work and get her thoracic sling built up! She still looks so awful to me! 

But today we did our homework! And I think she's been cheating a little bit with the pillar work. It's hard though because she's almost so sensitive to pressure, that I barely have to touch her and she drops. But I'm not sure she's entirely disengaging her brachiocephalic. But today we did some walks in the culdesac and she was much calmer. And then we went in the roundpen and got some good work. She licked and chewed a little. I tried a little tiny bit of lunging, but she immediately braced up her neck, so I brought her back down to the walk and went back to pillar 1. We got some good pillar 2 and pillar 3 at the halt too. So, baby steps. I'll keep at it and trust the process and try my best to not get impatient. 


August and then September... 


August and then September 

August
September. Oh baby girl, you are so downhill. Maybe it's just the angle of the photo...or the terrain?

Anyways, after we did our pillar work, she got a bath because she's got some skin funk. And then someone kicked her hock or she scraped it and she's got a fat leg. She does not like cold hosing. She swung out at me but she stopped with a spanking. She's starting to get a personality too. Yay! Then they all got dinner and she got turned out with Dan and they went to racing!! She won. Ha ha. Maybe the first race she's ever won! hee hee. But she sounds so loud... I hope she's not a roarer. Oh well... I suppose we can fix that if she is. 








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