Meet Holly
I started working with one of my barn owners horses during the Christmas break. The barn owner has 7 retired AQHA show horses that range between 18 and 27 years old. They get turned out in large pastures when the weather is good, but this time of year they spend their days in stalls with attached paddocks. Holly, one of the youngest at 18 was moved into stall with no paddock when a few new boarders moved in. With the weather changing to mostly rain in the past few weeks, she wasn’t getting turned out on a regular basis. I had handled Holly a few times over the past year; I brushed her out in the spring, gave her a bath or two over the summer and gave her another beauty session in October when winter blankets went on. I always found her easy to work with, she is a rock star in the cross ties for grooming and bathing but seemed a little weird when I would hand graze her. Holly would be happily eating grass and then out of nowhere would look up at me with wide...