Due to poor planning on my part and forgetting that horse's feet grow faster this time of year I am praying that Josie keeps her shoes on until the farrier is out next week. I should have followed my first instincts and had him shoe her before he left for vacation. DARN IT! Sunday Josie's shoes had loose nails so I hunted up a nippers. I had to remove a total of three nails - two from one shoe and one from another.
I purchased a rasp to file her feet down a bit to prevent chipping. Terri the farrier - hee, hee, hee.
Fourth of July weekend we stayed indoors due to fireworks. Wyatt really needs his tough Pixie around.
Monday M and I went around to different tack stores. I didn't do too bad money wise. I was on the hunt for breech/pants.
Tuesday, I went for a check up for my nose. I dreaded going figuring I would have to get another shot of roids but I have been released from care. Yippeee skippee!
Later I met Dr. B to check Josie's left shoulder for a sarcoma and her left tooth as I think there is still a bit of baby tooth in there. Yup! I was right on both counts. In the fall he will freeze the sarcoma and we are giving nature time to let that tooth push itself out. If she gets more sarcomas we will take one cut it up and put it into her neck as it is a virus and she needs help to get her immune system to fight them. I was hoping to have her put under so I could do her mane but oh, well. She did receive a West Nile booster. Amazingly as dry as it is the skeets are still out there.
Wednesday I spent with Chris at Canterbury working for her. She is a new trainer at Canterbury and an old time friend whom I met while boarding at Pine Ridge when I had Tilly. It was great! I groomed horses and then watched Francesco (?sp), exercise horses and then practice gate work with Touched by a Butterfly. While we were waiting to see Butterfly work we watched a bad gate training and later learned they put a man up on this in season, belligerent filly who ended up rearing and falling over and on the gent who ended up in the hospital with a pelvic fracture.
What a lovely girl she is.
This is Dyna Bell
Here is Chef Royal.
CR has 12 horses, two of which are pony horses, the rest being in training by her.
BTW I always thought of having to be at the track before sunrise due to Hollywood and fiction books. Nope, wasn't the case. Boy, I could easily live the track life. What is better than hanging around horses all day - nuttin huny!
Thursday I decided to skip the Tough In Pink night at the Hamel rodeo and hang out with CR again. This time I groomed, helped in various ways and watched a lot of horses doing their workouts. I observed how they picked the gate order of each of the races. They take the entries for a race and shuffle them, put them in a standing holder and as each tear-shaped dice, with the number and word of the gate (2 and two), is cast from a bottle-shaped yahtzee cup, for each paper which they pick alternately from back to front. Very interesting. So behind the scenes.
I had ridden maybe two times bareback while waiting for EP to return. Josie's feet were done on Friday. I rode her indoors and then Wyatt and I headed out on trail. Later that night, I went to Canterbury with M and her friends. The power went out during the wait before the, I think, fifth race. They eventually announced closing the track. I got several free passes.
So Saturday night was Rodeo night. Very fun. Didn't get to stay to watch bull riding but I got my Tough In Pink shirt.
Monday Vmail went down so I had to go in for a bit.
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