We're up drinking coffee. We did go down and work Kat yesterday, but unfortunately, she didn't finish sound. She ended up really favoring one front foot. Maybe she bruised it on a rock? Anyway, it was perplexing and I was bummed by it. I do hope she can get sound and stay sound. The plan is to see if she improves over the long weekend and is over it by next week sometime, and I'll come down and work her again. Then she just needs to be taken very slow.
Here she is...
And here we are trying on several saddles Bob borrowed to try on her. None of them fit her right. We ended up putting Bob's custom saddle on her, and it fit her. That's the tree she needs, whatever it is... full QH bars, I think.
She was a ~tad~ crazy on the lunge when I first started her. It kindof surprised me. But it was just very new to her, she has known how to lunge I'm sure, but it's probably been a lot of years. She's going OK here :~)
Then I got up... a little nervously after how nutty she was on the lunge, I didn't know if she had a temper tantrum in her still or not. ;~)
But she was super... nice quiet, easy going under saddle. I felt really uncomfortable in that saddle... it felt like I was riding in one of those baskets they put on top of elephants, I was so high off the horse. And I couldn't reach the stirrups, I was lucky to slip my feet in them to keep them from flopping. Bob didn't want to move them.
I started wondering if she was short stepping while I was still on her. It was subtle at that point... We put ecurbh on her, I wanted to watch her go, but unfortunately, she just got worse. She's favoring her right front. Perplexing, because it's the left front that has the bad wire injury she's been recovering from.
I hope she bruised herself in some kind of minor way and doesn't have bigger issues. She was sound lunging, and for the first part of the ride, but then started acting sore. Hmmm...