Blog – Page 20 – My Ex Racers

03Oct 2012 by myexracer

Tag-A-Long

[caption id="attachment_295" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Yum, Grass"][/caption] The opportunity came up to take my girl off farm. A new girl at my barn is a show rider. By girl I mean shes 12. She;s my new buddy at the barn, we hang out, compare our taste in bright pink tack and talk horses and school. She reminds me of my sister who I miss as they are almost exactly the same age. She's a talented hunter/jumper with an adorable 14.2 black pony named Beauty. She goes to shows about once a month and her mother who is at the barn with her every afternoon offered to let us tag along to a show so Jezebel could gain some experience going off farm. My girl being an ex racer trailered I'm sure…

21Sep 2012 by myexracer

Big Boned

Life with Jezebel, OTTB

[caption id="attachment_290" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="looking for food, no doubt"][/caption] My horse is fat! First my barn manager mentions she thinks shes getting fat, then another boarder who is also a vet said and I quote "wow she sure lost her race horse physique" so yeah shes off the hay stretcher now, cuz yanno... fat. Fat and happy though... she's a very happy horse.

29Aug 2012 by myexracer

The Verdict Is In

Life with Jezebel

[caption id="attachment_283" align="alignleft" width="259" caption="My hand has skin on it "][/caption] It's official I have a tear in my distal IP joint ligament, let me rephrase that I have a tear in THREE of my distal IP joint ligaments. Or as it's more commonly known, a finger sprain. Only I have three finger sprains. It happened when I got pitched into the fence off my pony. I dont remember falling on my hand or anything (only my ass) but it might have gotten caught up in my reins. It;s been about two weeks and though its getting better its still quite painful, especially if try to write using a pen. My first second and third fingers on my right hand hurt and they hurt a lot. Good news... my pinkie…

16Aug 2012 by myexracer

Man Down!

Life with Jezebel, OTTB

[caption id="attachment_278" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="My little pony"][/caption] It started out like any other day, my pony was a little more excitable then normal. In fact she was a lot more excitable then normal. One of the guys that works on my farm told me that my girl was acting "different" I asked him what did he mean different? He responded "well that's better then saying weird" Okay so my girl was acting more weird then normal. She was more agitated, she was talking a whole lot and i was told that on turn out two days in a row my normally calm girl tried to break away from her handler and run to the field. Yikes. I thought i would just keep my eye on her see if i could…

14Aug 2012 by myexracer

Body Snatcher

Life with Jezebel, OTTB, Saddles and tack, Training

[caption id="attachment_269" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Who replaced my horse!"][/caption] I swear my horse has been replaced by aliens. Shes a body snatcher horse. Ive been riding her every day for 45 minutes plus and she been awesome. Shes being thinking and trying real hard to do everything I ask of her. Also after our first training session with my new trainer shes been very good about going in the wash stall and even letting me rinse her down with out complaint. Now I don't cross tie her in there but so far I don't have to. We go in, I have her stand and rinse her down after our ride. Huge step forward. When riding her, shes been very good at the walk and trot. Her halts well they still need…

08Aug 2012 by myexracer

Rise and fall with the outside wall

Life with Jezebel, OTTB, Training

[caption id="attachment_266" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Work you say "][/caption] It's been 2 days now of serious ridding for me and Jezebel. Lots of rising trot and many, many circles. The Barn has been very quiet in the afternoons and I've been taking advantage of it and getting down to actual work. Jezebel is doing amazingly well for a horse that has had limited time under saddle. She's listening to me, trying to understand what I'm asking of her and keeping her cool though she is not foot sure all the time and trips a little more then I would like. I couldn't really ask for more then that from her. She wants to work and shes a much happier horse right now im sure because were working. As for me? I…

03Aug 2012 by myexracer

Whos horse is this?

Life with Jezebel, OTTB, Training

[caption id="attachment_256" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="The girls"][/caption] The rain rot is getting better and it doesn't hurt to touch her in her ichy spots so I started to work her again. It's Africa hot these days so "working" my horse consists of 20 minutes of lunging and yet another attempt to get my girl comfortable in the was stall (which is super scary it appears) I get my girl all ready with her cavason and lunge line, gloves on and we go into the indoor ring for some up down transitions. To my utter delight she does everything I ask. Walk, trot, halt, trot, walk, trot, halt, walk. I try to mix it up and she gets it. Shes always been shaky on "walk" confusing it with "halt" but on this…

31Jul 2012 by myexracer

Hissy Fit

Life with Jezebel, OTTB

[caption id="attachment_250" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Hanging out in my box "][/caption] She's got rain rot, or rain scald or whatever you want to call it. I'm going with rain rot because its rotten to deal with. She's not the only one in my barn with it there are several. This weather isn't making it easy to deal with. The patches on her back and hips are clearing up with my betadine and MTG 1 hour long every single day with out waver treatment. The rain rot on her legs is slow going. My girl hates and I mean hates it when you have to fuss with her back legs, its always a struggle between scraping off the rain rot scabs as quickly and efficiently as i can before she gets too…

19Jul 2012 by myexracer

At Long Last

OTTB, Saddles and tack

[caption id="attachment_242" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="I can haz saddle?"][/caption] It finally happened, I finally got a saddle that fits my pretty filly! Okay it was during a power outage for all of my regain and me, the boyfriend and the dog were all living in a hotel with AC until our (and hundreds of thousands of others) power was restored. It was also in the middle of a terrible heat wave and my barn was running on generators, so no water (as to reserve the well pump) and no fans for the herd. However the truly awesome people over at Dover decided that they could in fact make the drive from VA to MD for my fitting. (Thanks Melanie you totally rock!) So I met Dover at my barn and tried…

26Jun 2012 by myexracer

Everyday another ding

Life with Jezebel, OTTB, Saddles and tack

[caption id="attachment_235" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Say cheese..err clay"][/caption] A saddle may soon be in my future. I have an appointment next weekend with Dover to come on down to my barn and try saddles on my pretty filly. I have very high hopes that this will be it, that I will get a good fitting saddle and actually begin to ride my horse. These last couple months of ground work and a few injuries have bonded me and my girl, she tests me less and less and behaves more and more. But it will be nice to actually start her under saddle properly. Now don't get me wrong, Jezebel is chocked full of personality and I like that about her, she's also headstrong and very curious. Also qualities I really like…