I sure hope y'all have a good ride tonight and Bay does fine with his Bute. I guess we all need a little painkiller at times when we get older. I'll bet Cyn does fine with the water as long as Bay goes first. You're right about wider water being easier than narrow streams. There's not many horses that won't try to jump a ditch. Blade did it with me not too long ago. I thought he was gonna step across and all of a sudden he just bunched up and jumped like a rabbit. Talk about whiplash! I was lucky my "grab the mane" reflex was so quick or he'd've left me hanging in the air. I was totally unprepared.
ecurbh definately wasn't expecting it... and it happened so fast I wished I'd have known it was coming to get in front of him and kindof body block her. But he hung on! even though she had to scramble up the bank on the other side! Anyway.... we just need to go see if it's gonna be an issue or not.
As for Bay... he has days where he's great, and then days like this. I don't know what it is... I guess I have days too.