Trotting and A Spa Weekend

Handsome boy

Well Black and I got some crazy exciting news last week: We get to TROT!! Wahoo! They always jog Black first and it was the first time he was SOUND! It was very exciting and knew we would get some good news. Since Dr. Boone is on maternity leave, the wonderful Dr. Hay is taking over Black's case and he was really happy with his ultrasound. At the bottom of the tear where his suspensory attaches to his sesmoid bone, Dr. Hay you cannot tell it was ever tore if you did not know it was there! The changes were drastic in his ultrasound from January until last week so that was very encouraging. Dr. Hay cleared Black to start trot sets starting with a 2 min trot in the middle of his 30 minute walk. I trotted him for the first time last Wednesday (2/26) and he felt awesome! I thought he would be stiff since he jogged pretty stiff at Tryon but he felt great! Win!

Just keep swimming...

Then this past weekend I went back to Maryland to spend
some time at my family's lake house before all the snow melts. I didn't want Black to just sit around while I was away so he went and stayed up at Still Creek Farm in the Tryon area so he could keep up with his Aquatreds. Needless to say Black got the 5* treatment with Aquatreds everyday, handwalks twice a day, a huge stall with a window outside AND to the aisle! He was in pony heaven. They even gave Black a bath and washed and wrapped his wraps!! No one understands the simple pleasure of already wrapped wraps until you have a horse on stall rest... It gets old really fast!
This week we are going to try and stay on track with our walk/trot sets with the crazy weather and then Bo and I are going to go up to FENCE next week and go cross country schooling! Bo has had a breakthrough with his connection so I'm excited to see if we'll actually have a half halt this time out ;). Bo and I are also going to try and go to FENCE's horse trial at Beginner Novice in April!