My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
Tuesday was the first day of fall hunting. It didn’t feel like fall, it still felt like summer. I was leery about hunting — I’d been away for a few days and I knew Zelda would be fresh. In the end, it was too nice out to pass up, so I compromised. I headed over […]
Read MoreYesterday Freedom could barely walk. By this morning, he was standing on all four legs, eagerly looking for his breakfast. Gone was the woe-begone look. What a relief! I had some time this afternoon so I went back over to check how the abscess was draining (it still is) and he looks so perky that […]
Read MoreThis morning Freedom looked even worse than he had before. I could not get him to move more than a few steps and he did not want to put any weight on that foot. Time for the vet to visit. What was interesting was how concerned Willow was about Freedom. She stayed very close by […]
Read MoreFreedom’s mysterious hind end lameness took an accelerated curve to the left when I arrived to find him literally standing on three legs. He will put weight on that hoof/leg when asked to walk, but it’s pretty obvious that it’s painful. It’s pretty horrific to find your horse standing like that. He wasn’t favoring it […]
Read MoreThis emotional tribute to the victims of 9/11 featuring the Budweiser Clydesdales was shown on television only once — during Super Bowl XXXVI on February 3, 2002. In the ad, the Clydesdales are driven across the Brooklyn Bridge, arriving in a snow covered Battery Park where they gaze over to the Statue of Liberty and bow […]
Read MoreIt’s been wickedly hot here all week with temperatures and humidity making it unpleasant to ride. But the signs are there. Fall is coming. I love fall in New England — days when the air is crisp but the sun is strong, and where the landscape explodes with color.
Read MoreFreedom has been off the past week. He’s not lame. At least he’s not off at the walk or the trot. Nope, he looks just fine until you ask him to canter. Then you get a discombobulated mess. And he’s not happy. It’s particularly bad going to the left. I massage him regularly so it […]
Read MoreIt should come as no surprise that Michael Jung won Burghley. The only small surprise is that it should be on La Biosthetique Sam FBW and not FischerRocana FST, with whom he led after dressage — and who fell in the water less than two minutes into his cross country round! Jung had a picture […]
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