Lily

I brought Lily home yesterday. This sounds much easier than it was, considering Lily had never been here before, and had never been turned out with any of the horses here. I had been mulling over how to trade her and Hap, since Hap is capable of a full workload, and Lily is still being rehabilitated from her tendon injury. I would rather have the horse I can ride at my trainer’s where there is an arena.

My trainer came up with the plan. Bring Lily home, and take Rags and Hap to my trainer’s place for a while. This would give Lily a change to get used to the place without having to contend with any horses besides Smoke, who is remarkably passive when it comes to meeting other horses. My trainer volunteered to help me with the move on her day off, which is Wednesday.

The move went surprisingly smoothly. We had to do a little barn rebuilding where some of the barn’s siding had loosened so it was only hanging on a by a few nails. I kept Lily in a stall while she and Smoke became acquainted. We had put Rags and Hap into the round pen in the new field. She snarled a bit to impress Smoke that she was top bitch, and he sighed and agreed. I let her out of the stall and she started checking out the areas where she might find hay. She did a little trotting around to check out the field, but didn’t to anything to worry me that she might reinjure hereself.

Hap and Rags jumped eagerly into the trailer for the trip to my trainer’s place. Rags used to live there before we had facilities here at home, so he is familiar with the place. Hap had only been gone for a week, but the horses in the gelding field still all had to check him out and squeal their greetings. Then Hap went down to see if there was enough water in the stock tank to be worth emptying.