Sunday, May 31, 2009

Rain Rot, Mud Fever, Scratches....whatever you want to call it







OK imagine this on all four of India's pasterns, the reason for this??
the ridiculous amount of mud in all the pastures (except the lesson horse's that boarders aren't allowed to use....typical) all of the horses are getting it. As soon as one clears up another gets it

and i think i will permanently smell like Budeaux's butt paste.(did i spell that right??)
After i cleaned her pasterns with antibiotic soap, i put the butt paste on to keep it clean. hopefully it will work

PS: i HATE rain rot!!!!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

We got RUN OVER

I really wish someone had taken a video of it. it must have looked like the video of the harness horses where they all run into each other.

there was a hunter/jumper show at my barn, i wasn't in it but i snuck into the warm-up ring, just to ride in the hectic warm-up ring, good show experience. India was being a very good girl, even though NONE of the people could turn their horses without using a fence. They were all up in my space!!

There was one poor girl, i don't know who put her on this horse, but they should have been slapped upside their head. She couldn't make him turn, trot, canter, stop, or jump. She had NO control at all. All this horse did was bolt, rear, buck, and refuse to go.

They had to lunge him for an hour, attempt to ride him for another hour, just to do an equitation class where he bolted four times and threatened to rear. She was obviously a green rider too. Didn't know what to do when he refused. Didn't know how to canter properly. And the only advice the trainer gave her was put your hand on your butt and kick him as hard as you can. Which only made him flip around in a circle.

So i was on Indie talking to my trainer, when she did that flipping thing RIGHT BEHIND me, ok well suprise suprise he was so wigged out, that he started to canter sideways(dunno how he did it, it wasn't a leg yield, it was sideways, cantering SIDEWAYS)

He ran right into India's butt, India almost fell down, but recovered and took off cantering. Lucky i didn't fall off, cause when i got india to stop he was still cantering sideways. I'm serious it was one of the scaryiest things ever. If India had fallen down i'm pretty sure he would have run right over us and made a Paige and India flavored pancake. (i think we would have tasted pretty good honestly, yum....pancakes :)


So other than nearly dieing, it was a pretty good day :)