Back to School

Aria’s fall vacation or hurrication is over. She goes back to the training track tomorrow. My fat mares will be so happy to have her gone. No more having the 3 yr old ruling over the dinner buckets. I think Aria will be happy to go back to work. She’ll get more grain to eat that will definitely appeal to her.

Aria will be learning new things. I suspect she will soon be learning to swim. This will be a complete shock to her that anyone would expect her to get her body completely wet! Aria does not really appreciate bathing so she I suspect she won’t be a duck taking to water. Her bridle path is growing out. Racehorse folks prefer a short bridle path . . . an ear length so her nice show one is growing out. She has a small Mohawk on her neck. I just want to cut it off, but I’m resisting. I don’t do long bridle paths, but it is longer then the racing one. Shoes, Aria will be getting her first set of shoes when she gets back. I bet she’ll like them. Mia loves shoes. She learned that shoes mean, she could grip the track and run faster. Once out of race training, I discovered that when newly shod, Mia rips around the pasture like a maniac trying out those new shoes, ducking around trees and other horses.

Well we all survived Ike. We lost a big tree at the farm in the gelding pasture. It must have scared my geldings. It’s taken them a week to go out in the pasture to graze. Poor guys, but other then that everyone was fine. I left the horses out in the storm. Aria ran around with the fat mares. They were shocked at her return, but quit following her around after a while. Nobody enjoyed the stinging rain or the ripping wind. None of the horses, but the stallions in stalls looked like they wanted breakfast. They ended up with a late lunch/early dinner. All the horses were fine.

Now, the training facility was closer to the eye of Ike and lost roofs, some buildings and run in sheds. The fences suffered from the wind and flying debris. But Aria’s barn held up without any damage. The facility has water and electricity but at the front of the property so the hot walkers will not working and long hoses will be used to get water to the stalls. There won’t be as much turn out for a while. The track didn’t suffer from the storm and so horses are already galloping on it. I hope to watch her gallop this weekend and get photos.