When in Rome

Unfortunately, Walker was lame yesterday and today.  He went outside yesterday morning, and I think that he was so excited that he ended up hurting himself.  I decided to stop riding when I felt it because Walker is generally not a faker, or at least he hasn't pulled that on me yet.  I thought he would be better today, but he was still feeling off in his left front.  I decided to ride him for a half hour anyway to see if he would work himself out of it.  He didn't.  So after we had trotted and cantered for just a little bit, I ended up putting him away.

I was pretty disappointed especially since this weekend was supposed to be my last rides (other than my lesson on Wednesday) before March Break.

Because I'm going to Italy for March Break!  I'm very excited, and although I'm sad to leave my baby behind, it should be a lot of fun.  I will be checking my blog and other blogs regularly (probably), and hopefully I will have some nice pictures to post.

Gracie - one of the school ponies who needs exercise

While I'm gone, D is going to look after Walker for me.  She's going to lunge him or ride him every other day to make sure that he gets his exercise.  It turns out that D is going to be quite busy over March Break.  With our trainer pregnant, our barn owner needs a few more people to help out with riding some of the school horses.  Apparently some of them have been quite crazy in lessons and simply require a little more consistent work.  There are 3 of them that need to be ridden 5 days a week, so I think I'm going to offer to help out after I get back.  However, over March Break, D will be riding 7 horses all week!  She will have her own horse, Starr, as well as Walker and another boarder's horse, Izzy, since Izzy's owner is also going on vacation.  She is going to be riding the 3 school horses, and my trainer also wants her to put a few miles on another horse that they are trying to sell.  She should be thoroughly exhausted!

Hopefully Walker will be good for our jump lesson on Wednesday.  I don't want to jump him if he's still a little lame, but I think he should work himself out of it by then.

Walker undoing the knots that are keeping him from freedom