PolarSkye
Well-Known Member
Two weeks ago we took Kal hunting for the first time in four years . . . he was a very good boy, although strong, stood nicely at the meet and in between lines, and completed all four lines before having a silly moment and falling over on the road . . eeek! The hunt staff were wonderful - he skinned his knees and his right stifle and ended up with a massive haematoma behind his right elbow. Got the vet out - a week in his stable, a week in the field and he was right as rain.
So it was with some trepidation that we took him again this Sunday . . . back out with the SC&RMAS Draghunt . . . and I am pleased to report that he and Z both came home in one piece
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We changed the bit (from a french link pelham to a waterford pelham), put a stud guard on and travelled him tacked up. He was a nightmare by the lorry (rearing) and was very excited, but Z felt like he had brakes and said he was really beginning to settle by the fourth line. He was, however, a muppet on the way back to the lorry . . . jogging, neck arched, tail up . . . and was so spinny that Z wisely decided to dismount on the grass rather than on the tarmac by the lorry. We had to put him up on the lorry in his bridle, close the partitions (effectively pin him in) and then take the bridle off, put the headcollar on and put a rug on him.
He jogged down to the field when we got home and when I turned him out, had a good canter/gallop about.
He has spent the last couple of days listening for/looking for the hounds from his field, but has also been mooching with his friend (Roger the shetland pony) and grazing . . . and although he has been off his hard feed (only eating about half of what he normally has) he has been scoffing hay and haylage.
Today, Z jumped him in the school and he looked amazing - free, loose, relaxed and keen . . . such a relief.
P
So it was with some trepidation that we took him again this Sunday . . . back out with the SC&RMAS Draghunt . . . and I am pleased to report that he and Z both came home in one piece
.We changed the bit (from a french link pelham to a waterford pelham), put a stud guard on and travelled him tacked up. He was a nightmare by the lorry (rearing) and was very excited, but Z felt like he had brakes and said he was really beginning to settle by the fourth line. He was, however, a muppet on the way back to the lorry . . . jogging, neck arched, tail up . . . and was so spinny that Z wisely decided to dismount on the grass rather than on the tarmac by the lorry. We had to put him up on the lorry in his bridle, close the partitions (effectively pin him in) and then take the bridle off, put the headcollar on and put a rug on him.
He jogged down to the field when we got home and when I turned him out, had a good canter/gallop about.
He has spent the last couple of days listening for/looking for the hounds from his field, but has also been mooching with his friend (Roger the shetland pony) and grazing . . . and although he has been off his hard feed (only eating about half of what he normally has) he has been scoffing hay and haylage.
Today, Z jumped him in the school and he looked amazing - free, loose, relaxed and keen . . . such a relief
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