Training

I'm all over the place the last few days, and maybe a little blogger fatigue. So I let it go, maybe avoid the old saw of the man with nothing to say insisting on proving it. But, we've been at it in the training, and weather as the story. I left the camera in the office. It's hard enough to battle the climate and take snapshots of yourself doing it.

But, here goes:

Friday (b.s. before snow) the running paddock was finally barely dry enough to allow some riderless work in deep mud. There's a fine line between mud the horses can run in and too much. Friday was just this side of "can do" in terms of mud and both youngsters went around there riderless as fast as the conditions would allow, Y to his present state of conditioning, and then Y was removed. Then Art with Wind did some more, 3f at a time about 4 times as fast as conditions allowed. It was decent and a good w/o. Then some saddlework with both.

Sat. we're looking down the barrell of 7 inches of snow, but, our fearless forecasters missed it completely once again, and we wound up with only 1.5 inches, just perfect for running. We took Sat. off but Sun. morning both youngsters were put in the large Astride paddock that is actually a field with a 150 Yd. straighaway, and they had another quick riderless w/o in the snow with in about 25 degrees. We finished with some riding in the snow for Art, and tack work for Y. Voila, Y measures 15.2.5" up from 15' 1" when he was bought in late Oct.

I'll continue with injuries and training after Xmas.