Showpark

Week two is done. Few.... Well i flew down Wed. night to the cloudy gray (June Glume) San Diego. How i've gone down there six some odd times and never made it to the beach. Well, i guess it's 'cause I'm down there to watch fancy farm animals jump over brightly colored sticks. So this week at Showpark, i'm in the big grass grand prix field. I watch and go to get changed an eat lunch on Thur. and Gustavo (the groom [he takes care of the horses]) is walking Stella around. It turns out see was collicing. Horse's can't throw up so if they get a stomic ache they just roll around. If they roll around too much they can twist their guts or turn their colin and it can get real bad real fast. So the vet comes and puts his hand up her but and says "Yep, she's impacted. I'll drug her and see if it gets better, if not she'll have to go to the clinic." So half an hour passes, she's heavily druged and nothing gets better. So my poor pony had to go to the clinic and get looked at again. The gave her a tube of minieral oil (they shove a tube down her nose into her stomic and pump mineral oil and water [it's horses exlax]). They gave her an IV and we had to leave her at the clinic to "wait for a call". "No, news is good new." The vet told me as we left. Well, i didn't hear anything. Drank half a bottel of wine instead and still no news by 9am. We finally stop by the clinic and all seems well. They give her some food and she passed it all and after 24hr she's back to her normally self (just a bit hungry). So two of the four days of the show are out the window. but my horse is healthy so that's good. So the two days of shows... one rail both classes. I did all the hard stuff GREAT but the easy stuff... that was where i slip up. Oh, well. two weeks off and then a little show up in Sac. local thank god.