Other Horses!?

Dee had her first ever experience with SHARING yesterday. That is, she was made to share the indoor with not one but TWO horses. Well, ok, she didn't share with both until the end, but she held it together.
Now, of course she's shared space on the track, but that's a very different experience than sharing space in the ring, and I've had horses who get VERY upset about it. Luckily, Beth - who we were in there with first - was nice enough to let us just tag along behind her, which Dee loved. Also, by the end, Taylor could be half of the indoor away from us, and Dee was ok with it, because she could still see her, and felt like she MUST still be following her, so it was ok... what a crap racehorse she must have been! She was totally unconcerned with keeping up!
When Taylor needed to have a canter, another horse had walked into the ring, and that girl was nice enough to have her gelding babysit us in the center of the ring while Beth went for her canter. Dee actually STOOD STILL in the center with Miles and didn't even bat an eyelash when Taylor was cantering behind her. What a good girl! I was expecting her to be a little panicked about such a big horse thundering behind her, but it was no big deal at all.
All in all we did lots of trotting, just slow and steady. It was a good time for her to get her head around other horses in the ring (and when Miles went out and started trotting while we were trotting, she was fine with it!), and it was also a good workout for her (by the end, however, it was a good workout for ME, while I was trying to convince her that continuing to trot was a good idea even though she was tired).
I was very very happy with her, she's a good mare.

In other news, I finally got ahold of Steph yesterday after weeks of attempting, and she's on her way to sunny and warm Florida. Jealous. She's going down with 9 horses and 1 WS... so she's gonna be BUSY (We had 10 between the two of us), but at least she'll be warm. One of these winters when I have the money (I'm actually thinking of starting a Dee Account), I want to be able to send the mare down to sunny Florida for the winter and maybe visit for a week or two and compete somewhere. Hopefully someday... maybe next winter? Who knows!



That was what I woke up to every morning in Ocala.