all in Aftercare

Wherefore art thou, right lead? In my last blog post, I was planning to spend the next month charting out the third version of our show schedule and building on the lessons learned during the Dom Schramm clinic. However, as has become standard procedure on this journey, almost as soon as I hit submit on that blog entry, those plans were thrown out the window when Odin presented with a minor, hind-end muscle-related lameness.

The past month has been a whirlwind of summer activities, and I am surprised that we have made it through. After Fin got her new saddle, my brother got married, we started the process of drilling a well on the farm, and I went on a family vacation. Luckily, even though the time has felt limited, we have still been able to make some solid progress on Fin’s training.

The goal for this month with Finnick the Fierce has been consistency and intention. He and I found ourselves aimlessly wandering around the farm with no real goal in mind, other than actually riding, and when he inevitably got bored with that endeavor I decided we needed to take a step back.

After Oak Hill (Odin) and my first show, I sat down to look at the schedule of local shows and map out a path that concluded with the Thoroughbred Makeover in October.

This blog has been a little hard to write, because actually typing it out means that we have made a hard decision, but we know it is the right one. We have decided to withdraw from the 2022 Thoroughbred Makeover.

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