Winter Music

crazies prior to lesson fell flat on her side. ooops let me catch her lesson. Lame again. ughh... tried laura's saddle.. madder. tried bareback... so fussy and wouldn't go.  vidoed... not as lame, but feels worse than she looks saddle fitting ryder dressage saddle... disaster peter horrobin jump saddle: Disaster...   tried Funny's jump saddle... needs front shims, but may work well tried peter horrobin dressage... fits well,  so will try the other saddles and see not sure if she's lame from tack??? other????   

  Kind of. :) We managed to sneak in a ride on Saturday at home. The arena was covered with snow Friday but by Saturday it was cleared other than a few spots. It was still frozen on the long side closest to the pasture but we stayed off the rail and it was fine. The rest of the arena was just wet and sloppy but ridable! So we rode! Because, I desperately wanted to see if the shockwave helped her soundness.    I tacked her up at the trailer and poor girl was shivering when I first pulled her blanket off! I'm sorry girl! It's not that cold, is it?! I curried her well, tacked up quick, and we headed up to the arena. I did put the mattes fleece half pad on too. We did a brisk walk and I think she warmed up quick. I lunged her before I got on but she looked pretty good honestly, so we didn't lunge very long.    I got on and she felt pretty darn good actually. Like, as good or better than she had the last few rides until the bad ride. So.. interesting. It makes me won...

 I know, I know... Lyric is from Kentucky.. I'm sure she's used to it. But we had fun!!  Her favorite move...KAPOW!!       

  Today was... interesting. And depressing, but also hopeful and exciting. I hauled Lyric to Ashland and she hung out and ate hay while I worked on two horses. Then it was time to get ready for our lesson. While she was sitting there eating hay, I put the back on track wraps on her front legs. And when I went to tack her up and pulled them, I noticed she had some fill in her tendons in the proximal third. But, I think she's always had that. I checked her with the sticks, and... slightly reactive on the left, which... isn't the lame leg. Nothing on the right, so... I don't know that I need to panic. Especially because I really think that's always been there....    (We also got to wear her new sparkly browband!) I took her and lunged her first... and she looked worse again. She settled and worked out of it but she definitely was worse starting off again. And... she has had 4 days off... so, maybe she got tight and tense again?? So then I hopped on and we went for a 30 min...