The RR Rules (continued)

And heaven help you if you break one. Before I was distracted by "Seabiscuit", and then trying to get back into mode with the horrible weather, on January 11 I listed the RR rules as formulated over a decade ago, then lost on a crashed hard drive, and now reformulated as to what we try to do to avoid injury prevention. This is really a roundabout way of describing what most of them fail to do, and I'll try to put that together starting next post.

Training:
1/27/08 Art does 10 minutes riderless slow stuff in Astride Paddock then 10 minutes walk under tack. It's 50 degrees and we have still frozen ground. The soon to be named Y is confined to the lower barn with his foot bruise.
1/28/08 60 degrees today before the new cold front tomorrow, but 40 mph winds eliminated the tack work. Art and Wind were exercised in our regular paddock on deep mud, riderless 3f at a time for about 6 go arounds, moderate pace. Y was reshod and released from the barn. Do horses get happy? Rolling, bucking, pestering his buddies for at least 30 minutes, this was one happy little horse to be "released" after three days. I ponder this sort of thing when I consider a horse locked up in a 12x12 23 hours a day.