While Connie the lorry is at the garage, the crew have rallied to get my ponies and I out and about. Dan has fitted a tow bar to his van, traveled to Wales and driven many hours to pick up the trailer that my parents had cleaned up ready for me to use while I wait for my lorry to be fixed.
First world problems, but, I know have to decide do I sell the lorry once it’s been fixed up while it’s still worth quite a bit and is mechanically sound, do I buy another second hand box or get one built or do I buy a tow car and continue to use a trailer. All with pro’s and con’s and varying degrees of financial input.
The second big change is Tissy’s hooves, after a fairly normal 20km, her hind hooves were so worn laterally that it was rolling her fetlock. In hindsight, I should maybe have been training her in hind boots as well as fronts and that’s something I’m going to explore in the future. But for now she needing shoeing pronto. She’s always worn the outside of all of her feet laterally her whole life, she just doesn’t land flat so that’s inevitable. She’s worn her front boots in the same way. She is actually more forward going now she has shoes back on and I’m happy that we’re doing what’s best for her to get the job I want her to do done.
Beth Endurance 