Here are two pictures my mom took of Jet yesterday. Today I am back in PA! I apologize for not blogging yesterday. I left the horse show and drove back to Pennsylvania and my computer battery died. I had to wait until I got here today to plug it in.
Jet jumped a really nice round yesterday in show jumping. We had one rail which landed us in 16th place overall out of 33 starters. I could feel him grow in maturity as the weekend progressed and I'm really looking forward to competing him this winter. When I came out of the show jumping ring a spectator said to me, "He looks like he's been doing this his whole life!" Amazingly, he has only been doing this for about a year and a half. In fact, last year at this time he had never even competed in a recognized horse trials and he had only done two unrecognized horse trials -- one at beginner novice and one at novice. It is a real testament to his sensibility and talent that he was able to easily move from green novice to one star level in less than a year. He may not be the flashiest mover, but I definitely think Jet is a special horse.
In other good news, Gina was able to pick Doc up today from Mid Atlantic. His knee joint needs to be kept very quiet for a period so he will be on stall rest for about thirty days and then we will proceed to gradually bring him back to full work over a period of three months. He looks perky and we can tell that he is very happy to be home, even though he's not terribly happy about the stall rest. It was good to see him today.
Ashley
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