Injury To Art, Or Is It?

Busy week and quick update on our training. The weather has been great, just the opposite of a year ago, but, during Monday's training we come to a screeching halt with Art as during the riderless trot warm up the horse shows an occasional slight hitch in his gait. Initially hard to tell whether he was avoiding another nearby horse, or whether it's an injury. But, then, definitely injury.

I was fearing a bucked shin carryover from the mile riderless breeze 10 days ago that was probably too much. But, in the end, I'm unable to find anything, and thus am suspecting the horse (again) has sore foot or feet. The ground has been very hard.

Decision made to give a couple of days off. Art's hopefully slight injury gives everybody two days off. Will be back to serious blogging soon!