April 14

By Liz Lundberg

Thursday, April 14, 2005

 

6:05 A.M.

 

Yes, It has been some time since I last wrote. I got to setting up pages on the site - just to get a picture of what it would look like, and added the forum (minus categories and topics) and got so burned out I had to take a break. It will be this way for me until I get everything set up the way I want it, I suppose. It looks terrible right now, like patchwork. A friend suggested that I get a designer and pay them to make it work. That's not a bad idea, but I had just purchased software to be able to do most of it myself, so I am going to take a stab at that, first.

Too much has happened. Hateya Ran third, then on his first day back he pulled the trick of the century. I saw him do it to someone else before, but I thought he had tripped. So I can verify now that he didn't and he is a savant when it comes to dropping a rider. He just waits for his opportunity.  In my opinion, this is the second most dangerous kind of horse there is, the first being one with a screw loose. At least with Hateya, I know where I stand. On one that's nuts, I can't begin to anticipate what they might do. Those I just get off and stay off, regardless of whether I lose the whole barn.

 

But that is one dangerous hoss, PHateya..I hate getting on him because I physically cannot counter him; I was prepared when he flipped me over his head like a pancake, and still there was very little else I could do.

Then he finished fifth, but they took the winter surface off, so the track is two seconds faster than the horse!

Later that afternoon-

I've been FIRED!! This is what I mean about God. It doesn't hurt to believe you can pray and have it be answered. You may not even realize you are praying, but you wish something deep down, and commit yourself to the expectation that it's not to be, and it comes magically.  I really needed to get off of that horse, but I wouldn't ever say I was giving up. I would have figured out how to stay on him - and this time I still don't have a plan-  So I come in to work today and Hardhead says; " I won't need you, Liz, I got Jaime." Jaime has worked for Hardhead for years before, but never here at Mountaineer; always at Thistledown. Basically they taught Jaime everything, from how do do up a leg to how to gallop, to how to condition a horse. And Jaime does it all!! He gallops, mucks, rubs, does up, walks horses! So he's there working for Hardhead now, galloping, mucking walking and doing- up! Today he got on Freddy, Stiff, Toes, Vic, & Lazy.

I told him to watch out for Hateya.........