Not been doing very well at keeping up recently, have I? Things have been pretty mad at work and there’s been a lot of other stuff going on so it’s hard to keep on to of posting.

Well, happily the weather has dried out!! We found some secret mud fever that Dino had been hiding but it wasn’t serious and now he’s out in his summer rugs and the fields are looking pretty good. So…he’s muzzled. But I’d rather he was out with restricted grass intake than stuck inside!

We’ve had a bit of an up and down few weeks. About three weeks ago we did some free jumping, which he loves, and it was all going swimmingly until this happened:

I’m not quite sure where he thought that fence was, but apparently he has ambitions! He was fine for the rest of this session but when I rode him in my lesson a couple of days later he’d definitely pulled his hips ‘out’ again. Mostly on the left side, which as we know is his weaker one. The jumpies were fun though:

So we’ve been rehabbing the hip again. David (osteopath) was out today and did a bunch of tweaking and agrees that whilst he’s slightly sore in both hips his left is the worst, but it does seem to be improving so hopefully one treatment will be enough to help it on its way!

In general though things are feeling better. He’s almost grown his clip out (at last!!!) and I managed to spend some time sitting with him in his stable whilst he was lying down last week. This is always so special <3