Yesterday morning Vin got shod.<\/p>\n
This evening I fetched him in.<\/p>\n
Sadly he had only three shoes on and was hopping lame on the hoof with the missing footwear.<\/p>\n
Sue rang the farrier who, bless, said he was at home just about to hop in the bath but he’d be around in a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n
Thirty, to be precise and that’s no complaint – more a statement of grateful wonder.<\/p>\n
In the half-hour between phone call and farrier’s arrival I’d scoured the field and found the missing shoe (thank heavens for the lighter evenings!).<\/p>\n
It was completely mangled so God knows what the hell he’d been doing – but he’d obviously heard that we were going show jumping tomorrow and was doing his best to be ‘off games’.<\/p>\n
The farrier straightened the unwanted curves out of the shoe and reattached it to Vin’s hoof.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we’ll find out if he’s sound or if he’s damaged himself in the process of removing it (but the farrier didn’t think so).<\/p>\n
So no riding tonight after all; I was going to take him for a gallop around some of the fields.<\/p>\n
Instead, he’s indoors eating his head off and I’m sitting on one of the new stools, wondering what to cook for a late tea and hoping he’ll be right tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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