Mon. Misc.

We marked March 7 as the arrival of spring hoping the single digit night time temps of 10 days ago were the last cold blast. The (ineptly shot) video below serves as a winter 2010 memorial here in KC, and also the last photos of Art, who died on the farm last week. Art is the horse nearest the pigeons. Thanks to Rich and Bill Pressey

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for the kind comments. We went 15 years around here without a fence injury much less a fatality. In Art's case I overlooked the Russian roulette aspect. Improbability, after 15 years here, finally occurred reminding of the wisdom of working every day at staving off that final bullet.

But, we go on. The good news here would be that the other horse, Rolling Rodney, morphed over a fairly brutal winter into what looks to the eye like a major league race horse. I'll post a picture soon. In Rodney's case the problems involve what you're unable to see in a photo. But for now the horse sure "looks like" he can run.

I am working on the next post bone post and intend to finish my thoughts there, and then get on to the interesting topic of performance, which, were things to go as planned, would coincide with preparing Rod to race.

Training: Snow melting on top of another foot of precip. Impossible ground conditions.
Thurs. 3/4: 15 min walk under tack.
Fri. 3/5: 15 min. walk under tack.
Sat: 3/6: 15 min under tack. ground drying and able to trot here and there.
Sun: 3/7: Riderless intermittent 10 min in deep mud. Skipped tack work.