A few months ago in late May, I noticed a scab on the outside of Simon’s front right fetlock. He must have nicked it being Simon (because he’s constantly covered in various skin ailments and scabs and bites), and I gave no thought of it. A few days went by, and the scab was still there as well as was hard to pick off. Weird, but it’s better not to go digging into my horse with my fingernails. He probably…
Though we all know I’m a hunter/jumper girl, I appreciate pretty much any kind of horse show with quality horses and riders. So when my local fairgrounds in Raleigh, NC hosted a major dressage show several years ago – I checked it out. I really think hunter/jumper shows could do with a few more flags in the background. It makes for a nice photo backdrop! Also, how do you dressage riders get your boots so shiny? Dude, seriously. How?
As mentioned yesterday, for the purposes of my research I was pretty much only interested in Simon’s siblings from the same dam. It’s not that his sire isn’t up to snuff, but we all know that most stallions will have gazillions of foals and it’s more common for the foal to have more characteristics of the mother. To find out this info, I pulled Simon’s dam’s pedigree up on pedigrequery.com. It turned up 4 results (including Simon), so I had…