I’m so lucky

He was going to be pts. He had been miserable for months. He was too ill to travel to the hospital. My amazing vet found one last chance of a treatment but if that didn’t work…. We have had several set backs. Once he started to feel a bit better we had the most amazing physio visit every 3 weeks. There were months of 3 or 4 daily visits to get all the different medications in. Along with begging him to just keep strong for a little while longer to let the new meds work.

Then started the weeks of hand walking. Then the weeks of ridden walk. Then trot. We were just getting somewhere when he decided he needed another month box rest and then small pen turnout. Since last September in he has been back in work.

And finally it is all worth while when he held his own doing a novice dressage test on Sunday. I am so lucky to have such a kind and forgiving horse. Who knows how long it will last. So for now we enjoy every day.

I know how quickly it can go wrong. I went from 2 horses to none in 7 months. The first was very very special. I ended in psych ward as I wanted to be with him. People said but you still have soli, so concentrate on that. When he had his accident I didn’t know what to do.

There have been a lot of emotional steps forward with Robin. The day I first got back on. First trot. First canter. I burst into tears when we came out of the ring having done his first prelim. People must have thought I was mad. Then on Sunday when we did the novice. It wasn’t perfect of course, there were quite a few moments he was too keen. But too keen and happy makes me very happy!!

I am also very lucky to be able to go
To shows like that with very little work in the school. I think lots of schooling would break him, he also gets bored quickly. So we hack a lot and school very little. Part of me thinks I could put in the time and work, get lessons and school and push on up. Big I really don’t want to!

I could go up today and that will come crashing down. I still have huge anxiety getting to yard to potentially find him with a life ending injury (ie what happened with Minto and soli) which I have to try very hard to manage. I would be sad if I couldn’t ride him again (or worse) but we have had such a great year.

He loves his trips out. He stands perfectly to get plaited then starts dancing cos he is so excited. He set off out of his stable without me on Sunday! He marches me up the ramp and looks so pleased with himself.

We get there, I open the ramp and he settles to having a good nosey and a munch.