JD's Carolina Ride 2013
Jazeb's first successful Camping trip and Endurance ride!
At Sandhills, Eli had a heel grab injury and I decided to pull his shoes and lay him off for a while to give his severely bruised heel some time to heal up. So, that meant Jazeb would have to fill in. Dody was taking Noodle to her first ride since coming off of maternity leave, so we decided to ride together and have fun. Here is Jazeb with his ride braids in place!
My concern with him is always related to camping but this time he settled in nicely and I really didn't have any issues at all with him safely tucked into his corral panels.
Here he is EATING! This may not seem like a big deal, but for him to be this cool and relaxed is a magnificent accomplishment.
The ride start was what I expected since he tends to get a little "humpy" backed. I walked him in hand for 15 minutes before mounting up and getting successful forward motion, but once we were going, I had a marvelous ride experience with him. There was no ride photographer, so Dody snapped this picture of us on the second loop. We rode the same 14.5 mile loop twice.
Here is his final ride card. He pulsed in with tack on straight off trail each time and he had great pulse recoveries to the vet. He said we should definitely have done the 50. I was a very proud horse mom! Three years of training have paid off with huge dividends.
I'm hoping we can go to Broxton Bridge and do back to back LDs, or possibly elevate to the 50 one day.
Happy Trails!
