Mini-Doc Update

Some of you may remember Doc, my APHA grullo horse featured at this link.

This past spring, at 10 years of age, I began to notice that he seemed sound! By August, I had no doubt, so brought him out of retirement. After body work, he even went to Melissa’s (my trainer’s) for a month.

You can see some photos of him here. In many of the photos I am concentrating on some things Melissa asked me to work on during our lesson. She wanted to have photographic “evidence” of just how off kilter I was :-), so had picked up a camera to shoot images of Doc and me.

This is a short video of Doc at liberty in August

A video the first time Doc had a rider aboard in over 3 years…Melissa gets up on him after working with him some first

After Doc returned from Melissa’s, I free leased him to someone that would spend time with him daily, but it didn’t work out (after only a week). I look forward to a new beginning with him in the spring and have signed up for a Harry camp in August of 2009.

When I found myself up on Doc in August for the first time since we had our many “rodeo moments” over three years prior, I realized just how much working with Harley for 18 months had increased my confidence and awareness. Harley has been VERY good for me and TO me. We have a lot we are working on and a long road ahead, but have come so far…It is really amazing when I stop and think about it!

Heidi