I just realized Lyric's been here a month! In that month he's gotten his feet trimmed three times, blown an abscess, and decided that I'm a lot less fun as a regular occurrence ;).
While his legs and feet are adjusting to the gradual changes we're making to his "funky foot", we're working on getting him muscled up and introducing some basic dressage concepts on the lunge line. Right now he's getting lunged with just the outside side rein on very loose, with the focus on getting him to stretch down and loosen his neck and withers so his back can come up. We have some trot poles he gets to do as well, which I think he enjoys despite being a doofus and stepping on them once they get raised.
Tonight we took a break from the ring and lunged in the field next to Coach K's driveway. It's a great place to work him because of the nice, slopey hills. Lyric thought it was great because he could trick me. It's just AMAZING that putting his head down to stretch magically brings the grass in reach of his mouth. I'd have found it a lot funnier if I didn't keep having mental images of him putting a foot through/on the side rein or the lunge line and breaking a leg out there. It was a great workout for him, though. It's amazing how much of the soreness in his hocks disappears when there's something interesting going on. And he's got impressive reach with his front end, too!
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