Cold Open
Meet Titanico (aka Ty) Sometimes horse training feels like an endless game of snakes and ladders, only it’s a special edition where there are lots of snakes, but no ladders. You roll the dice and slowly progress up the board, but no matter how far you get, you’re always sent back to the beginning. Often these setbacks are just pauses to fill in gaps in the training that appear as horses progress. Then there are the more challenging setbacks- the long snakes, if you will: injuries, traumatic experiences, illness, and the ever dreaded “real life”. My 2019 Makeover hopeful, Titanico (Ty), seems to have had a long run of snakes recently. Between abscesses, visits to my family over Christmas, a bruised muscle from a kick, and our move down to South Carolina, we’ve managed to regress to the point where I think he was probably further ahead at the start of December than he is now. So, with less than 8 months to go before the makeover, where do we go from here? The other day I was sat h...