Sometimes You Have to Take a Step Back

After my last post and a really bad jump school where Reffy decided he was NO WAY, NOT EVER going to jump or even walk over ground poles, we decided to back away from the jumping and focus solely on our dressage basics and the whole "listening to mom no matter what is going on in the rest of the world" thing. Needless to say I've been a little MEH about the blogging since then. 

My plan for the season had been to start out with the CT in April and be killing in at starter HTs in the summer with the possibility of moving up to elementary by fall. Yeah that's not going to happen. Poor Reffy has such a hard time keeping it together off property we've only muddled through a couple dressage tests since the epic CT fail. It is getting better, but I was admittedly bummed about the whole thing for a while. He continued to go like a dream at home, but being trailer-less and poor I haven't been able to do what he REALLY needs, and that is to haul to every schooling show in a 20 mile radius until its completely old hat to him. 

Which brings us up to the present. We went to a trial over at Burgundy Hollow a couple weeks ago to do just dressage. He was the calmest he's been to date off property, put in two decent Intro tests, made his momma proud, had a whole week off, and was lame the day I planned to start riding again, and has been since.

GAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Horses. Seriously. Sheesh. So it's been about a week and a half since then, he's slowly improving, but it seems to have been a stifle issue and they are notoriously slow to heal. Double bummer.