What a wacky week!

Well what a week!

Tuesday we worked on polo horses out in the field and back at the stables. Working out in the field was pretty cool - to be able to keep catch 14 horses from a large herd and keep their attention while they are in their pasture is quite something! The afternoon session was spent doing quieting and handling. We have a small competition going where you have to complete 2 tasks with your partner. They are timed and you can be penalised. One of the activities is to lunge your partner while they are blindfolded and the other is to gather the lunge rein 3 times in a 'safe' manner as to not scare the horse... this one was done with the rein attached to the gate. Heidi and I did pretty well on that one! We haven't done our lunging yet, hopefully we;ll get that done next week.

Wednesday we spent all day doing hoof care. Bryan is a very knowledgeable man and I learnt A LOT from him! We watched him make a shoe from a piece of bar stalk and attach it to the limb. He then dissected two limbs of a horse so we could examine the tendons, ligaments, joints and hoof capsule. It was fantastic to see what is in the hoof be able to get a good feel for all the tissues and joints etc.

This is a picture of Bryan shoeing the perfect kind of horse to shoe!

Thursday was a full on day of business, my head came away from that chockers. In the afternoon we were

informed that a tornado had hit towns about 20 - 30 minutes away from us which was kinda scary! Everything had an eerie feel to it that afternoon! Apparently there were about 6 tornado's around the area (not too close) last night!
Today we had anatomy and movement, another full on day! While in our movement class we got told that we were on tornado alert until this evening. Catherine was a bit worried about this. I didn't expect to come to America and be so close to a tornado!
This weekend is a long weekend, still no idea what I am going to do but I'm sure ill come up with something!
Missing you all muchly xx