Monday, September 14, 2009

Worried

Good news first: Thrush Buster held up amazingly for 5 inches of rain (TX weather is so random, one day is 100+ degree weather and we are in the midst of a drought and a few days later it's in the 70s with pouring rain like we live in Seattle!) so I would definitely recommend it to anyone now! The best deal I've found, surprisingly, is on Dover Saddlery.

Bad news: I've been anxiously awaiting and watching for Andrea and Gogo from Eventing-A-Gogo to see how they are doing in the Beginner Novice AECs. The showjumping round is blank and the final score is a big fat W. They withdrew. Now I'm really worried. I hope everything is okay.....

Oh, and some more good news, I found some AEC pictures of Sam and Val from Blue-Eyed Eventers on the AEC website. They look awesome!!!

4 comments:

  1. Does Greta have thrush already? Ugh, that sucks! I just have never had a problem yet. Heard that Gogo had problems with her back legs. Poss. a bowed tendon, not sure.

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  2. I saw Andrea at the AECs on Thursday, but I wasn't able to talk to her again after that, so I don't know why she pulled from show jumping ): I'm working on getting up a post about the AECs; it's getting quite lengthy! I have so much school work to do since I was gone for so long, which isn't helping.

    And I love my expression in that picture. Ha! Our show jumping round was pretty much flawless, though. As you could probably tell from the standings, we were dead last- so we got to go out first in our division and make the world wonder why on earth we were dead last! :) I was so happy.

    Did Greta actually get thrush, or are you just using that as a preventative? I hope she's alright! :)

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  3. Greta will get thrush very easily, especially with this freaky weather, and in previous incidents she's lost half her frog! It's never terrible, I always get to it before it actually could cause major problems. If we get a little rain, it just shows up! This was just used as a preventative and I have not seen - or smelled - anything yet! Her hooves are good! They'll be like this for about a year, according to the farrier, since she just got her shoes off 4 months ago.

    Damn! I feel sooo sorry for Andrea. I know she was really looking forward to this. They were doing amazing. I'm glad, kind of, that it's not anything horribly bad (though a bowed tendon is still not good) because, knowing me, I was beginning to invision a life-threatening colic or a broken leg. I'm such a worry wart.

    Okay, so Sam, does that mean you got pushed up to first? I'm confoozled hehe.

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  4. Ha ha, no. I'm in dead last. Your score can only go up, not down. So I left dressage with a pretty mediocre 41.9, then went out to XC and ended up with a score over 100 (1 refusal + time), and I couldn't make that any better by having an awesome stadium round. I still had the greatest time and was incredibly proud of Val and myself for Dressage and Stadium! Our dressage would have been a much better score if I hadn't been so nervous, and our stadium made me so happy :)

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