Good Girl

 Today was supposed to be a flat lesson with Jacel, but her kid was sick so we postponed til Thursday. I ended up just riding her at home because of timing and not wanting to drive to Ashland again. 

 

We walked up to the arena and then I got off and we straddled the pole. She's pretty darn good at it. I was kind of surprised. So then I got on and we rode. She was a pretty good girl. She's definitely sticky in her stifles or something! She lost her hind end hard a few times and mildy a few times. And then in the right lead canter she picked up the cross canter twice and felt scrambly in the transition. (In fact, when I was riding Funny later I found a shoe at that spot... but it wasn't Lyrics.... So I have no idea how it got there! Ha. Guess it was Dan's from awhile ago.. maybe he flung it from the fence???). But she hasn't had previcox for a few days and felt okay otherwise, so... we'll keep seeing how she does off previcox. 

 

We did some transitions and some small circles. We did some shoulder in and some leg yields. We did some canter work and practiced our transitions. Overall it was a decent ride. But she's definitely sticky behind and she wanted to twist her poll in the shoulder in right. And she felt a little more bracy again today. So.. maybe it is the lack of previcox? I don't know. She's still not consistent in the contact and definitely wants to hang on the inside rein. I'm trying hard to not hang back but... it's a constant battle. She almost felt today like she was falling haunches right instead of haunches left. And she felt like she was falling on her left shoulder instead of her right shoulder. So I did some counterbend to try and straighten her. 

 
We had some good moments too though. We hacked back home and then she got a bath because it's still hot and humid today.  Good pony

 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Well damn... just damn....

Image
  Sigh... I want to cry. I did cry. Sigh... my poor beautiful girl.  We had the saddle fitter come today to assess the disaster dressage saddle. It's not the original fitter but someone she recommended who was traveling past us to go to her other clients. So yay! Maybe I can finally decide one way or another with this saddle. But nope...  Since she was coming I had her check the other saddles and horses too. And Kelli came and brought Marvin. She looked at Lyric and thought that the dressage saddle fit her pretty decently, it just needed flocking because the wool was completely squashed and not much in there. She was going to flock it and have me ride in it but then I mentioned that I was also using it on Funny and wanted her to check it on her first. She did mention she wanted me to try riding her in it to see it. I told her about the rehab stuff and lameness but then honestly, I sort of thought it might be worth seeing how she felt, especially given the vet visit tomorr...
Read more

Tomorrow is another day

Image
  And today was a better day. I still was sad and even cried this morning, mostly because of hormones. But... Dr. DeClue called me as I was pulling into Barrows for my vet appt. She told me not to worry about working up the lameness, but to hold steady. She said that the shockwave changes how things feel and that's probably why she looked worse yesterday. And she said that she needed her neck facets done. And then I was like "Can I bring her to you again?" and she said yes. Phew. So, she'll send me dates soon. So that helped. Just... stay the course Holly. And then I adore Dr. Barrow too. I basically told her the whole story and she listened and didn't blow me off. She didn't dismiss anything and she was smart and had good ideas! We checked her front feet with hoof testers and she was negative so she didn't think it was her feet. She said she agreed that it wouldn't be wrong to do her hocks and stifles because sometimes veterinary medicine is "a d...
Read more

Racehorse

Image
Another lunge... filthy girl. Still ouchy and fussy and not wanting to go.  NExt day: So... originally was going to walk the pasture with Lyric, but then got curious/lazy/who knows and went into arena to see. did pillar and sling work... getting good and stepping sideways and turn on haunches and forehands. even did a little bit of shoulder in tracking left. then lunged to see. Still short and mincy... so then started running with her and she perked up and got bigger strided. Okay... if it works, it works. So I ran with her. Apparently I'm way more out of shape so I only did 6 minutes of trotting of the 20, so... she definitely worked harder than me. But this is good for me too. And more straight lines vs circles. So ...we'll do this. And she definitely looked sounder. But also day 3 or 4 on previcox and 8 days into ulcer meds and decoquinate/levamisole.  Also coughing and a deep throaty cough. Like dan's a little bit. allergies? neuromuscular? maybe that's the respirat...
Read more