Sat. Misc.

We're still here.  Decision made temporarily to avoid Oklahoma for now due to price of gas--$200+ for round trip as blogger still has office business in KC.  June 1 is new target date to commence track work.

Past week training wise -- mini-disaster.  What little there was of Blogger energy spent converting horses to a new field as we were removed from the nice hay field on April 1.

The new field has 1200 yards of barbed wire and would have my horses on one side and the Mexicans mares on the other--i.e. disaster with horses pawing each other through the wire.  Instead of spending scarce funds for new fence we came up with solution of combining all horses into a single field--brilliant, or so it seemed.

All goes totally awry when 18 yr, old gelding Groovin'Wind, testing his status as favorite horse, commenced to play stallion with the Mexican mares.  If you've seen stallion behavior around a band of mares, this does have a humorous aspect and good to see the old boy still has it in him--though as far as training #17, separating the six horses for feeding, training, etc. good grief!

On Day #1 of this I arrived and #17 was nowhere to be seen.  A one hr. search turned #17 up in the woods chased over the fence by his former buddy Groovin' Wind.  We get lucky for once--only a scrape on a knee.
 The situation in the field is so unruly we are unable even to get the horses to come to the feed buckets.  One group is on one side of the field avoiding being chased and bitten by Groovin' Wind who has his mares on the other side. Hopefully today will solve how to proceed with this unexpected development of unruly horses and situation and numerous problems involved with the new field.