10Mar 2012 by myexracer

Three days in

Life with Jezebel, OTTB
[caption id="attachment_67" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Just looking at this picture is costing me money"][/caption] Three days in and Miss Jezebel came up lame. Her hind left was causing her much discomfort and pain. She was walking broken legged. I took her digital pulse. I could feel it. Damn. I put her on stall rest, my barn manager gave her some butte and we hoped for a bruise. It wasn't to be, the next day she was still lame so the vet was called in. It was in fact an abscess. Less then a week with my ex racer and I was already calling in the vet. Welcome back to horse ownership to me! My vet was able to find the track, he poked the abscess and I started the process of…
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08Mar 2012 by myexracer

Stable hunting

Barn tales
[caption id="attachment_57" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="On the hunt for the perfect barn"][/caption] After I decided that an OTTB was what I wanted I needed to find a place to keep her. I of course started with the Google. Unlike Los Angeles where you only have a handful of places to board your horse Maryland and Virginia have a lot. I know I needed a place as close to my home as possible so I could spend more time with my horse and less time on the road getting to my horse. The first place I went to look at was about 10 minutes from my home. As part of my process in picking a place I like to show up unannounced. I want to see what the place is like when…
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06Mar 2012 by myexracer

It happened so fast

Life with Jezebel, OTTB
[caption id="attachment_35" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A real looker"][/caption] After the decision was made it happened so fast. I put in my applications for an OTTB with 3 rescue groups on a Sunday night by Monday morning I was on the phone with one and moving ahead with the process. One week later I was at a horse farm in PA looking at 5 OTTB mares. I was specifically going to look at a 6 year old recently off the track 16.2hh dark bay beauty but that's not what I came home with. Although a real beauty her and I didn't have a connection. She needed time to be let down, to remember to be a horse and to settle in. I knew right away she wasn't the horse for me so…
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