run n rate - 2016-10-22 6:17 PM

We were slow but clean on our run, realized 1/2 way to the 2nd I hadn't sent her and she wasn't running. Gave her a reminder headed to 3 rd and she was like "well why didn't you say so???" Lol!!! I think we ended up bottom of 3d. BUT she came out prancing, cooled out well, and when she urinated when we got home all looked good:)

run n rate - 2016-10-24 11:23 AM Absolutely!!! As I've said before, slow runs, knocked barrels, ect, those things are easy fixes. Happy healthy horse after the run starts to become the goal, the rest is icing on the cake. This is a picture from after our run and I had walked her out, bright eyed, and sitll sassy <# https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1079374985491028&set=a.5...
Make the privacy setting on the picture public so we can see!!!  

run n rate - 2017-02-06 12:01 PM so I've been not posting on CC because after a November race went to unload her and she was 3 legged. Not entirely sure when it happened. She cooled out fine, walked her 100+ yards to the wash rack after I cooled her out, had to leave the water bucket going back to the trailer because I couldn't keep up with her and carry the filled 5 gallon bucket. Ran my gelding about an hour later, cooled him out and washed him off. She loaded fine, never felt any movement in the trailer on the way home. Only a 20 minute drive home or so, went to unload and she didnt' want to back out, took one step and held her left hind in the air. NO heat no swelling, hoped for an abscess. Farrier came the next morning and check, no sign of sole soreness and then later that day the fetlock swelled up. Have been alternating poultice wraps and wraps with the Cu horse wraps, also a Bio-scan . She is moving sound in the pasture but there is still some slight swelling. When she goes back in for another bladder check in April we will have it x-rayed and ultrasounded. Until then obviously she is laid off, but keeping up the therapy on it. The good news is she hasn't had another incident with the bladder infection that she was kind of plagued with last summer and early fall. To say I was devastated in an understatement, questioned why God would help us thru something like her bladder issue only to lose her to something like this. Then I realized if not for God helping us thru the bladder/kidney issue day in and day out I wouldn't be blessed enough to get to still have her and be dealing with this injury. Keeping our chin up.

run n rate - 2017-02-06 5:42 PM

Thank you. I've kind of been in a deep depression about the whole thing. But then got to thinking about how I had whined about "When will this be over???When will enough be enough already?" wondering about the bladder infection and realized that when it is over, it really means it over. That as long as this little mare is alive there will more than likely be issues, its part of the package. And as hard as that is I'd rather deal with the issues and see that face of her's over the fence each morning. RAn into the lady I had bought all 3 of my horses from about 2 weeks ago. We had bought the gelding as a coming 2 year old and after I started him I fell really in love with him, went back and fell in love with the full sister that had just hit the ground. Stalked her for almost a year and drove into the yard on Valentine's Day to see her standing there. A few years later Dave took me over to their place again to look at a half brother out of the same mare, I walked right past him to a little sorrel mare in the field next door. Turns out she was out of the same mare also, full sister to the gelding that Dave had taken me to look at but she had spark, little did I know how much at the time, LOL!!! Anyway, Debbie asked me if I knew that they had had to have Savannah (their dam) put down, I knew she was starting to decline at 22 when I had last seen her a year or so ago. And then the news that the gelding I had and his full sister's sire had had to be put down also at the new owners place. Debbie was devastated, she said she had gone to see him a couple years ago, at that point she broke down in tears. She said she lifted his blanket and he was a just skin and bones. They had taken very good care of him the first 2 years they owned him, she wasn't sure if their circumstances changed or if they just decided not to spend extra $$$ keeping an aging stallion going. She thanked me for taking good care of ours. Two women standing there sobbing over horses. What is it about these animals that rules our worlds????