Training Thurs. 8/14

Wed. 8/13 off
Thurs. 8/14: Art trotted 1 mile under tack with a few steps of gallop here and there. Very energetic, as expected. Forgot to check the tendon afterwards. Still a slight bit of fleshiness this morning around the check ligament-splint area. We'll go easier for this reason in this cycle and make it 4 days instead of 3.
Rod: Trotted under tack about a mile back and forth on the 1/4 of the Pasture track. In the 15 minutes from the end of this work to the start of shoeing Rod--we put on one shoe a night--the horse managed to lose his shoe. And, sure enough there's a laceration on the back of the pastern where he was pawing at something in the dark. Luckily it's just skin deep, and with a little of the silver spray bandage applied we will go right on. The horse lost his shoe 10 minutes BEFORE we started shoeing instead of 10 min. AFTER. How fortuitous is that? Our luck possibly is changing.