Weekly wrap up

Low mileage week - about 20 miles.  Spent the majority of the weekend at the horse show and I have to admit I'm whipped.  I did get to ride a few jumper classes on a friends horse and that was a blast.  He is a super talented horse and just goes out and does his job.

I took Riley to the vet and while he does have a sore foot, so far they haven't found anything worse than a bruise causing the lameness.  They checked his back leg which had a severe joint injury years ago and it was perfect and the xrays of his sore foot showed perfect bone structure for his age.  So that is all good.  He is resting for 10 days with antiinflammatories and ten will get a good hard ride and we will see what happens.

The jail has the Olympics on for the inmmates to watch and so far they seem to be quieter than usual...they are actually watching the TV instead of fighting.  They need to record it and play it all year long!

I hear a lot of people saying that Equestrian sports have no part in the Olympics because it is boring.  Well...I challenge any of those people to get on a 1200 pound animal and try to get it to do a complex dressage test, jump 5+ft high jumps or gallop around a 4-5 mile course jumping 4+ft obstacles that don't fall down.  And this would be on an animal that has a mind of it's own!

I think Geezer would agree that it is harder and scarier than it looks!