There were chunks of metal, broken glass, etc. in the arena and there were holes! You’d be loping around and all of the sudden your horse would drop down in a hole. No one was happy with the conditions but we decided to perform anyways.
The first run went fairly well. We had to push the horses through the deep footing but we managed to get through it and make it look smooth. I had a few issues with Max’s brakes but then I knew that was an issue before I went.
In between runs the boys “roped” off of a stimulated roping horse and then entered a stick horse contest. Chase won 2 prizes for his stick horse in barrels and the pick up race. He was pretty excited about that.
After that we ran one more time. The second run………….it wasn’t quite so pretty. The horses were exhausted and footing like this just takes everything out of them. I had given my spurs to another member so I didn’t have any and we don’t have poppers on our reins so I had nothing to “whack” with. There were a few times when I thought Max was going to just stop and say “I’m done & there is nothing you can do about it”. Luckily we made it though the performance but it wasn’t pretty.
We loaded up and headed home. DH thinks that Max has a swollen pastern but I think it’s just irritated from his bell boots so we are going to give him some due time off.
DH had to work Sunday so the boys and I went over to MIL’s & spent the night so I could work with Cat in the morning. She’s been giving MIL some grief so I told her I’d help her.
Sunday we got up and I went out to work Cat. She was full of beans! I think she’s just going through one of those “typical” stages but we worked through it anyways. During LFR stage 1 she wanted to bolt, run, stop, rear, back up, etc. Quite a few times I had to run towards her to get her to go forward. She finally got gave up her card when she got tired.
She’s really starting to turn a copper color under all of the blonde hair. I can’t wait until she’s all shed out. Here are a few pictures (not the best but they’ll do).
Look at that butt!
She has her mama’s chest
I think she has Tuffy’s head too.
Playing
In “her” barn at MIL’s
After that I took MIL over to a mutual friends house to see her new filly & her other horses. Then we went back and cleaned out the barn and unloaded all of the tack from Sat. We’ve all decided we need a new trailer with a tack room because we are tired of hauling tack back and forth from the barn to the trailer.
Our next performance is in 5 weeks. I’m going to try to work Abby into the routine to see how she does. We are supposed to have a fun show this weekend for the kids but it is supposed to rain almost all week so I’m sure it will be cancelled.
2 comments:
Sounds like you were busy!
I like the way Cat stands with her hind feet under her and that is a very nice color (and butt).
That's too bad about the footing. Did they know they were gong to have eight horses galloping around there on Saturday?
Problem with Max's brakes? Hope you didn't bring that up with DH ;>)
Cat has grown so much ! she looks good too, nice butt!
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