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A week and a half on and I am sure you are all on the edge of your seats, waiting for my post on how Axels doing... No? Oh well here it is anyhow.
For right now, he's feeling well. With a few weeks of regular riding, he may regress, but if he does, we deal with it and start investigating the next possible cause. But, yay- right here, right now- we are pretty darn ok.
So, it is so far, so good. Actually scrap that, so far, so damn brilliant! Now, before I get you all excited for us, I am well aware he could go downhill again in the next week or so. I am holding my horses, so to speak and not resting on any laurels. Boring you with all the metaphors yet? Sorry. I am a tad excited today.
He has chilled and got a little fat in the turnout, lunged, and now has had two days of ridden work. Sara rode yesterday, as test pilot she has been navigating the muddy waters of riding whilst sore (to keep him feeling sore for the vet check) and now has been testing out the new, improved and fuel injected (ok, steroid injected) ginger freisian ninja. She said he felt fantastic yesterday, she had no bad reactions to the leg/ forward at all, in fact he was pretty much perfect. So today it was my turn and I must admit I spent the night worrying, the morning stressing and then rocked up, decked out in my bestest dressage diva outfit, in the hope that if I looked the part, my ginge would feel the part. And you know what, he bluddy well did! He was happy, forward and loved carting my bouncing butt around the arena. He is the cutest to ride as has these wonderful alert ears, always forwards and waiting for the next fun thing we might do. He didn't just feel a bit better today, but he felt better than ever, strong, happy and so ready to fly off my leg, he just made me beam. We finished with some serious dressage training of 'Round the World' which I think was probably his favorite part.
For now my friends, it is leg on and fingers crossed (although not whilst riding, crossed fingers might make the correct holding of the rein kinda tricky).
For right now, he's feeling well. With a few weeks of regular riding, he may regress, but if he does, we deal with it and start investigating the next possible cause. But, yay- right here, right now- we are pretty darn ok.
So, it is so far, so good. Actually scrap that, so far, so damn brilliant! Now, before I get you all excited for us, I am well aware he could go downhill again in the next week or so. I am holding my horses, so to speak and not resting on any laurels. Boring you with all the metaphors yet? Sorry. I am a tad excited today.
He has chilled and got a little fat in the turnout, lunged, and now has had two days of ridden work. Sara rode yesterday, as test pilot she has been navigating the muddy waters of riding whilst sore (to keep him feeling sore for the vet check) and now has been testing out the new, improved and fuel injected (ok, steroid injected) ginger freisian ninja. She said he felt fantastic yesterday, she had no bad reactions to the leg/ forward at all, in fact he was pretty much perfect. So today it was my turn and I must admit I spent the night worrying, the morning stressing and then rocked up, decked out in my bestest dressage diva outfit, in the hope that if I looked the part, my ginge would feel the part. And you know what, he bluddy well did! He was happy, forward and loved carting my bouncing butt around the arena. He is the cutest to ride as has these wonderful alert ears, always forwards and waiting for the next fun thing we might do. He didn't just feel a bit better today, but he felt better than ever, strong, happy and so ready to fly off my leg, he just made me beam. We finished with some serious dressage training of 'Round the World' which I think was probably his favorite part.
For now my friends, it is leg on and fingers crossed (although not whilst riding, crossed fingers might make the correct holding of the rein kinda tricky).
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