Emotional Day

 

 Well, both of us were emotional today. We headed to Ashland to ride with Kelli and Marvin. Lyric is apparently in heat... again... and was smitten with Marvin. She was nickering at him and HAD to go up and say hi. And then almost swung her butt in his face. We did start off with a hack and she was happy to lead and stopped trying to snuggle with him. She was motoring though. And she tripped a few times... even rolled her foot once or twice and at the end of our hack she spooked super hard at nothing and almost fell over... then stared in horror at the nothing in the field. Marvin just rolled his eyes at her. But it was a nice hack. She did get a little freaked out at some other horses in the lake but once she saw them closer she was fine. Then we got to go in the lake and splash and she was very angrily pawing the lake. Hee hee. Okay.. get it girl!! 


 

Then we headed to the arena and Kelli watched us when we first started. I wanted to get her opinion on what she saw and whether she thought it was lameness/weakness/training/etc. So she watched us go and gave us some pointers. Which matched with what I had been doing in my lessons and on my own. Although interestingly today she felt like she was landing harder on her right front... I really think previously she was dumping on her left front... but then the rest of the compensations felt the same. But today she was legitimately making a louder "thud" with her right front. However, I did get some really nice work... and then it sort of deteriorated. She was going quite nicely and balanced and soft and felt pretty good. It was inconsistent, but there was a good stretch of niceness. And she was a little "boppy" in the connection and felt fussy in the bridle, but... we had some good moments. Then when Kelli started watching again, she got worse. Maybe because we cantered too? She felt very discombobulated in the hind end... almost like she was struggling to get her legs going the right way and then suddenly, she'd hop or fall out and then be "back on line" and moving nicely. Then we'd changed direction or she'd fall out and she'd be scrambly behind again for a few strides until she got her balance again. And then she definitely got fussier and started feeling more legit lame than just unbalanced. Sigh... Kelli was watching and said that she thought it was her left hind being unable to track up and under, because she couldn't get her left barrel out of the way. So yeah... I don't know. 

 

Now I'm stressing that I need to take her to the vet too. And I don't know if it's her neck.. her lumbars... her kissing spine... her stifles...  Sigh.. It would be easier to stay local but if I need her neck done (and actually the lower cervicals not mid cervicals) then I need to go to Aiken, so... sigh.  So now I'm the emotional one and feeling very gloom and doom today. I'm worried about Lyric. I'm worried that her kissing spine is going to make her unhappy in work.. or that I'm riding her through pain/discomfort because she's a good girl and trying. 

 

 


 And... our dinner guest last night. :) 



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