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Spring revival

I've been feeling a it down lately about my own riding and Gadget's struggle with this dressage stuff. I've not been riding as often as I would like and then when his back got a little sore, it was one more reason not to ride. I really think he becomes more sensitive when he starts shedding out as the sensitivity seemed to go away even before he got his hocks done.

Regardless, he had his spring maintenance injections this week, and I've been doing some light lunging and serious grooming, which is a nice change of pace. After our last lunge session, I let him loose in the outdoor to roll. Instead he headed for the small pile of hay in the corner. After shooing him away, he wandered up to my cavelletti, which are set up in the grass beside the dressage ring and walked through them, then turned around and trotted through them. This is the horse that reared two weeks ago to avoid going through them at the trot at the medium height. I'm thinking maybe he is actually feeling better and we are on our way back to normal.

 

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