And the name that has stuck… Sully.  A big, kind, goofy, and lovable monster 🙂 He has been overall ambivalent about barn names so it was just time to choose!

And some of you may remember the other Sully too!

This week he has continued to improve, even surprising me trotting up for dinner looking sound on Saturday! I can still see some ouchy steps on the rocks and harder ground, but he looked pretty good in the ring doing a trot out.  His hip soreness is lessening from last week’s kick, but still treating it every day with TriCare with one spot yet to scab over.  He’s had a few new marks show up, but none as bad as that.  They seem to be sorting it out and Cheyenne isn’t chasing him as much as just moving him around, and now Ali has joined in the fun of doing that anytime there is food involved and taking charge of Cheyenne again.  I’ve gotten a routine down of tying up and releasing, but they play merry go round on buckets after each other licking them clean.  I also think we are getting closer for a good ratio of water to cubes, and a little bit of sweetness to get him eating all his food again by the time the girls are ready to be released from their buckets.  But, I guess he is stressing more if I bring him in to feed as we had a short choke episode to deal with Sunday night doing that.

The Scoot Boots (in that photo above) did not make it through staying on overnight in the mud lol (they were a little big), but his Easy Boot Trails have arrived, so we will be using those on the fronts with pads to get him back to landing toe first and then we can get working under saddle.   He still doesn’t exactly fit a size, and I’m hoping to get his toes touched up this week to help the trim further, and then watch his feet change 🙂  We also need to start working on the trailer backing out since he is moving reasonably comfortably now, but need my truck there to hook up for that. 

His new Rope Training Halter

Since he was looking and feeling good we did a short session in the ring on the lunge line Sunday eve. He remembered everything from before about my requests, and was less distracted than before by the girls being so far away.  I’ve also done some trot-outs to check for the lameness and sent the videos to other Standie folks trying to figure out if was off behind or just doing something funny that is normal – Apparently the issue is that I’m not running fast enough to get him into a big trot, so the back end won’t look right! I guess there is no jogging along side – must sprint!  As Patricia told me, it needs to be “Running like you were in a horror movie chase scene” LOL.

As I just said in a private message today … Every horse is a learning curve!!