Clever Girl
To express her discontent with the heat and the status of the world, Mae has decided to come up lame again as a form of silent protest. She’s been off on her right side for around two and a half weeks now, and we still haven’t figured out the cause. It’s been too dry in north Texas for it to be an abscess and there hasn’t been any swelling or heat in her limbs or hoof. Trainer suspects a stone bruise but we haven’t had the vet come out to see her yet.
This mare has been known to take a minor annoyance in her feet and exaggerate it to the point where folks who watch us in the ring believe that her legs are about to fall off. A few years ago, she fooled myself, my trainer, and our vet (see this blog post) into thinking there was something majorly wrong. It cost me countless x-rays to turn up absolutely nothing, which don’t get me wrong, I’m not unhappy about but I’d rather find out for free that she’s been faking it.
Coincidentally, the last time this happened, we were in the depth…
This mare has been known to take a minor annoyance in her feet and exaggerate it to the point where folks who watch us in the ring believe that her legs are about to fall off. A few years ago, she fooled myself, my trainer, and our vet (see this blog post) into thinking there was something majorly wrong. It cost me countless x-rays to turn up absolutely nothing, which don’t get me wrong, I’m not unhappy about but I’d rather find out for free that she’s been faking it.
Coincidentally, the last time this happened, we were in the depth…
