Lost, Found, Lost

Metal shard or fleck gets in trainers eye while rasping heel of aluminum horse shoe in strong wind this week. Opthamologist/med bill $500.00 so far.  Track money.

Big blog news of the week--without vids for a while as Kodak Playful cam corder is lost, found, lost. Lost it out of pants driving horses to paddock, and found it incredibly on way back glistening in sun only to deposit it in plastic grocery bag confused with different bag same night and deposited in trash.  Same way 4 other prior Kodak Playfuls were previously lost..  Good grief.,

In other news--I keep eye balling the new running paddock for size since it's working so perfectly.  Always had wished running paddock at old farm were larger--running part was about 1F around.  Advantage of smaller size paddock is easier contact with and control of horses as they spring around.  Disadvantage is that running is primarily in circles.

Our present much larger paddock has less direct control as horses run but the larger size permits them to run more freely and realistically.  There's still enough control to keep them running around the circles per the vid last post.  Looked at it again yest. for size--thinking it's about 88 yds. by 88 yds. which means the running part is that horses have about 70 yds on each side to run and so almost 300 yds when they run all the way around.

The new paddock has also been successful to date in removing the "spook factor" from our tack work, and so we're making progress there, and would like to make a vid of the tack work, if we had a cam corder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoPx44ljgwY&feature=em-upload_owner

Wed. Update

Last two days:
1.  Both horses go in trailer after #148 "no way I'm getting in there".  Has yet to lift head so we can see if he at all can fit.  Doubtful.
2. Rebuilt running paddock 75 yds x 75 yds.  Prior paddock was too narrow.  Strain of sesamoids for #148 to run turns.  1st test this eve--looked really good.  Vids soon.
3.  Two days off from tack---busy with other things as we try to figure how to get to the track.  1st step is to get trailer ready.

Sun. Misc.

Nob back up and riding for last three days.#148 behaves well, so far. Intensity of this latest tack work starts to increase today.  Back to every three days riderless after particularly energetic riderless workout on 2 prior days rest a day ago. Weather is finally "dry".

Update

We're in after effects of the deluge of rain 4 days later. Mud and water all over.  Horses still exercising riderless, and, we're again trying to figure how to get to a race track.  Hardly easy with closest open oval 260 miles south, and a trailer with roof too low for our 17'2".  Our good news--a short spurt of available cash and gas  prices  down to $2.80/gallon..  

Rain

10 inches of rain so far in October by Accuweather, and I'm recalling why our training efforts at the October Woodlands meet were wiped out year after year.  It's been a mess at the farm although we've gotten in some intermittent riderless and tack work. 

Meanwhile we worship at the Alter of the Kansas City Royals.

Thurs. Misc.

Whoa, Big Fellow....it's been a week.

What have we been doing?

Today, Thurs. fairly typical:

1.  Riderless fast work.  #148 is explosive on 1.5 feeds of grain/day.  #17 otherwise.
2.  Nob gets on both--we missed some time on tack due to 5 inches of rain over 3 days and schedule.  3rd straight day of tack today.  The drama is whether #148 still acting up after the ground work.  So far, an angel, though we've done very little

Would say, with #148, will do more tomorrow except I see another 1.5 days of solid rain.  Will see.

On a side note--#148, with energy of any 3 horses, has taken over the #2 position in the herd.  The horse is so full of himself that Nob arrives and says "do i really want to get on that horse".  Try for some vids of this when time allows.

Thurs. Misc.

Our schedule:

Fri, Sat. and Sun. were spent afixing 12 new shoes instead of training.
I tired of the constant shoeing interfering with available time every day. Get shoeing over and done, and feet good to go to Oct. 15.

Mon-Tues. Horses tacked at the walk.  Our perpetual reintro to tack work.
#148 long lined on the ground continues to be a challenge, even in his ground work,
although in short times up Nob says he was fine.

Wed-Thurs--4 inches of rain hit KCMO.