Today was meant to be the best day of the week and it was lovely..sunny and dry,bit nippy but definately not complaining!
I wanted to longrein Ali first so got him all ready and walked over to the school to see someone lunging their horse so we went for a little detour up the lane first then came back down and went into the school.I got the lines sorted and in place and set him off to walk when two girls from the yard came out riding their neds bareback up to their field.Im not sure what happened next but I think either the horse's spooked of the girls were carrying on but AliG got a fright and took off across the school.I couldnt hold him,he's extremely powerfull, so off he went charging around the school snorting then came to a standstill at the gate.I walked over to him and let him stand for a few minutes to calm down then got my reins sorted and started again.He did some lovely work with beautiful changes of the rein and some really nice forward trot, towards the end I moved him up into canter and it was stunning!:)
I'd watched the Richard Maxwell DVD last night and spotted some things i'd missed so it was good to do it while it was fresh in my mind.
I went for a short hack on Polo he seemed to be walking a little better and only dropped a couple of times but I 'know' there's something going on,he's just not right.Cant wait to start the Adequan ive decided if it doesnt work i'll give him a month or two off to see if rest will help.After all the ops when he was younger he really distrusts vet's,hates needles and everything that goes along with it so i'd rather not put him through it unless its completely necessary and if that means he's retired then so be it.
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Oh! Lucky AliG stopped after running off with the lines attached. That can get pretty scary...been there, done that. Holding a horse bolting off like that takes far more mastery, physcial prowess, and skill than I have. Whew!
My vet gave me twice the number of hypodermic needles than I needed for the Adequan injections. Short needles were for piercing the rubber cover on the bottles and drawing out the liquid. Then, he insisted on my using a BRAND NEW needle to give Tucker the injection. He says it really makes a big difference to the horse to use a totally sharp needle. So far, Tuck doesn't even react when I inject him. I have one shot left to give--I got off schedule a bit--and he is bouncing sound at the moment. He feels GREAT!!
I'm so glad you have a lovely horse like Ali to take your mind off Polo being a bit squiffy.
C
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