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

Solo and all the other babies are on a break over Christmas and New Year. Solo who is now FOUR, Hector, the ‘rogue from the track’, who is also four, plus Waldo who is a big grown up five year old now…..time to start teaching everyb

It’s really hard to write a blog about your young horse’s training when you haven’t worked your young horse for about three weeks! First it was Christmas and New Year, then I ended up driving a house trailer down to Florida, four of

After another very pleasant and educational trip to Florida -helping drive down the first shipment of horses, I was inspired to start back with the babies.  Solo however was not quite so inspired and after two pleasant days of walking around the are