----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 8:48
AM
Subject: Re: [RC] leg care for
multi-days
To help put things into perspective...are you able to go
out and hug your hug this morning? The new filly we fell in love with as
soon as she was born this year and have anxiously been waiting to bring home
as soon as she was weaned, had to be destroyed this week (long story but she
got out of the fence and in trying to get back in managed to break both of her
hind legs). Now this was a pretty awesome filly and Nelson had pinned
hopes and dreams on this horse that I hadn't seen him pin on any horse
yet...this would have been the filly that he might have actually taken out on
the limited distance trail himself. He was totally smitten with this
filly. She is gone and he is devastated. The breeders feel awful
but as they are dear friends of ours and we spent about a half hour in a panic
thinking one of THEM was dead or in a horrible accident, we were relieved THEY
were ok. There will be other horses, but friends are hard to come by and
these particular friends are so unique!!
So, go hug your horse today and think of all the things
the two of you have to look forward to and how precarious life can be
sometimes. It only takes an instant for everything to
change.
Maggie
