So lots has happened since the end of June!
I’ve gotten Sully out to ride pretty much every weekend (including a Devil’s Backbone trail climb at Graves), I took Skyler on her first trail ride with the help of friends and a borrowed wonder pony (11 miles and yes, she is now hooked!), we celebrated Sully’s “gotcha day” 2nd anniversary on 7/13, there was a stay-cation day at the Richmond zoo where we went on the ropes course with zip-lines, and finally my birthday!

The unfortunate part is that Sully has been having lameness issues in the front since end of May. So far, all seems to be in relation to how the shoe is set on the foot and clears up as soon as an adjustment is made. It is still rather frustrating, and caused me to pull us from the No Frills 30. At this point I have decided to pull shoes for a while and I’ll likely be doing some more of a physical work-up on him to see if there is a reason he is suddenly so particular (like a Lyme test to rule that out). My fear is that it is part of the P2/P2 PSSM result and a symptom final rearing it’s ugly head…
Prophecy is overall doing well but some things lately are leading me to test his ACTH (redchecking for Cushings/PPID, was normal in 2018) so that will all that blood-work goes out next week.

Sadly, there are no endurance rides for us for a bit – not that there are many to be had… I’m hopeful we can get to some in September and later if those rides are even held. He is already pretty fit, so it shouldn’t be a huge stretch as long as his feet are doing better!

Like most folks, my birthday was different due to the virus. No group lunch out to celebrate, but we did have a family dinner and cake made by Doug and the kids 🙂 In the morning I came out to find a flower blooming on the Hibiscus tree, and when feeding the horses in the evening there was a rainbow out.
Sully also had some body work with Jessica (she helped scratch an itchy ear too!) and we talked more about the next steps for him. Overall she said he looks great, had less problems/adjustments needed than prior times, but yes still lame on the RF. Most of what was found was due to the front end issues. So while today I was supposed to be competing in the mountains, instead I organized the trailer a bit! Next week I’ve got a farrier coming out to pull shoes and let his feet reset, as I begin the hunt again for a local farrier willing to work with composite shoes.

For the end of July we are off to another clinic with Emily Kemp … I’ll update more upon our return on what we worked on this time!