Hi we met you at Kings Forest this Spring with Senj - the one with the glue on red renegades. We were admiring Cinny's wonderful feet. Congratulations on Cinnys 130km win at Cirencester.
We are hoping to take Senj if he will stay in one piece until then and hoping to do 120km. We managed to get him through a 120km at Hayward Oaks and went up to Seacliff to do a second 120km to increase his fitness with the aim of doing a 160km at the College. Plans are just so bad!! At Seacliff he vetted out with metabolics at the third vet gate where he scared the living daylights out of us as he crashed so quickly. He came in fine, vetted into the vet gate fine and appeared fine in the vet gate - steadily eating hay, though in retrospect he was a little too quiet. At the represent his heart rate went shooting up in the Ridgeway 62/73. Thank god for the represent at the final vet gate or we would have been back out without realising there was a problem and things would have been far worse. Luckily got him back with lots of hand grazing.
So we have looked at electrolytes and started supplementing and are planning to hand graze and sit with him in his coral. Realized that he ate really well at Hayward Oaks because Heather was in the car beside him so looks as though if we want him to keep eating we will have to keep him company - the big softy. Hoping to see if this all works for him by doing another 120km at the College. Hoping for better luck than last year though as he fell after the first vet gate and was out for the rest of the season!
If we make it we'll come and admire Cinnys amazing feet again.
My mare on loan, Eba (EAS Boadicea) should be going with her rider, Ella, for their first race ride. I think they are doing Class 13 and are number 55, in the 80k CER. She is a black arab who will probably have a red ribbon in her tail as she doesn't like other horses coming up close behind her, and is likely to be with two others, an appaloosa and a grey.
Hope you all have a great ride. It sounds lovely. B
College Ride
Posted - 29 Jun 2014 : 4:06:30 PM
