RR Misses The Workout

Between a visitor from Germany and office chaos reigning, I've had very little time to be blogging, but, the training continues, even though i missed today's work when one horse jumped the fence toward the street just as Art was starting his work.

3/13/07 Day 3, Burch: multiple riderless heats at speed after the layoff. horse looks good, but, too fast.
3/14/07 Day 1 Burch: reintro of tack work. Horse does well, nice temperament. Mild tendon heat from yesterday.
3/15/07 Day 2 Burch: Taking care with the tendon heat that still is present. Art again placed in Astride paddock after oldsters had done some riderless breezing. The new paddock at 175 x 100 yards is perfect size for driving horses with the whip from the ground. And, the neighbor's mares are right across the street, and so, with two 12 yr. old stallions, unnecessary to stir them up when they go in. They are hepped, and it's been easy to produce riderless races in this paddock. However, today, just after Art entered, up and over the fence went one of the stallions into a deeply wooded area. Art appears to have exercised himself in the 15 min. I spent extracting the oldster from the deep brush. They were all very warm to the touch and still trotting around when we reappeared. This serves as additional strengthening after the 17 day layoff.