He loaded as calmly and quietly as he had the day before. No excitement and no anxiety. He was given a treat and a small hay net, at 11am we set off to Toronto. He traveled beautifully, despite the journey taking an extra half an hour due to the inte

We left Solo on his own at the RWF at around 12.30 pm on Wednesday night. We had stayed to watch the show and then we walked him one last time, fluffed up his bed and tucked him in. He was NOT sleepy. The General Governor’s Cup, the line class

Solo really has grown up a lot in the past two or three weeks. Just being prepared for his trip to the Royal was educational. He is indeed a changed horse. Although he still stops sometimes when you are leading him, it has more to do with where he wa

The little sprinkling of snow has put a temporary stop to Solo’s work. We had put a set of aluminum shoes on him for the Royal Winter Fair, they have no stud holes and no grip on the snow. As I mentioned before, it’s all downhill to the i

Today the shavings arrived, 1250 bags to be unloaded. I put Solo and his friend inside the stalls about an hour before the shavings arrived. When the shavings truck pulled in, Solo and Waldo were given some hay to occupy them. The truck outside the w

With the snow gone for a few days (Solo still has aluminum shoes on) we were able to take Solo back down to the indoor arena and put him back to work. As always, he was happy to have our attention. We didn’t have a spare horse to lead him from

When we went to tack up Solo today he had a nasty scrape on his leg. It’s on the inside of his knee and it looks as though he may have put his leg through the fence and then drawn it back quickly scraping it in the process (probably trying to c

Solo’s knee took quite a few days for the swelling to go down. He is back on turnout again but not yet back to work. He had it iced for 48 hours – 20 minutes icing every few hours. After that it was kept wrapped and some aloe ointment was

Solo has been in the hardest work yet over the past three days. On Friday we had a foot of snow and the heat had gone from his leg. Because he had had quite a bit of time off, Selena ponied him for twenty minutes in the snow to settle him down. He ha

It took most of a week but Solo seems to have given up arguing about going up hills. I must admit, in 30+ years of breaking and schooling horses, he is the first I have ever had who made SUCH a fuss about carrying me up and down hills, you wait till