KADENZER SPIRITUAL HEALING

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PADDOCK NAME EMMA

On the 6th May 2000 I was given a beautiful bay mare with four white socks and a large blaze called "Emma's Day, she was retired from racing as she had badly bowed her right front tendon in a training gallop and the owners felt that it wasn't worth going on with her.

Taking her home I discovered that this little lady had the sweetest nature and was willing to do anything I asked

even though she was still full of race feed she was so quiet it was unbelievable, it almost made me wonder if she had been drugged. After my farrier had a look at her leg and removed her shoes, and redid her feet so that her angles where right and not too long (this was the reason she had bowed the tendon her toe was too long placing her pasterns on the completely wrong angle hence straining her superficial tendon in her right front leg). She begun 3 months rest to heal and strengthen the tendon.

After having her boxed for three weeks, walking her in hand every afternoon I decided to move her to the paddock with Chevelle and Pixie, but still confined her within a 20 meter by 20 meter yard so she wouldn't over work the tendon making it sore and inflamed again.

After about three weeks in the yard, the swelling in the tendon had gone down and there was very little heat within the tendon, her feet were looked at again by the farrier , and he trimmed the toe on that foot back a little,

I let her out in the paddock with Pixie and Chevelle, she was so excited at the chance to be allowed to run free and have a play that she took off galloping and bucking with Pixie not far behind, the two fillies played like this tearing around for over an hour, Emma was bucking like a bronco and jumping bushes in her way ........I was standing there thinking why did u have to hurt yourself little gal .......as she could jump and was a natural at it ....she also had lovely movement and I thought she would make a nice dressage horse if that tendon heals properly.

As Emma has come down off all the race feed (oats and stuff) her true nature has come through and my first opinion of this mare hasn't changed she is so sweet and full of affection. To be honest she is so quiet its as if she's bombproof. I kept thinking to myself I hope she is as nice to ride as she is too handle on the ground.

Well 3 months and two weeks later I finally put a saddle on this filly and a young friend of mine got on her, first on the lunge lead just incase she decided to do anything as we had seen the way Emma could buck when she was playing with Pixie, to our delight she never even batted an eyelid taking everything within her stride, after about ten minutes on the lunge, I took it off and Judy rode her around the paddock fence line. she only shied slightly at a lady on the back fence which backs onto a caravan park, so I saddled Pixie up and we went for a wander out in the bush, Both horses were angels, not putting a foot wrong and considering this was Emma's first time out in the bush she was perfectly behaved, Both Judy and I were waiting for her to explode when a trotter in cart came up behind us but nothing, Emma just looked as if to say .......mmmmm what's that but never got upset.

Later on she seen her first train as we had to ride down beside the track and again she was an angel, she just looked wide eyed and head up as if to say ok what the heck is that but nothing else.

On the 26th of August 2000 Emma was entered in her first show in the in hand classes, admittedly I was expecting her to play up a little but what she threw at me was not totally expected, as My house mate was holding her waiting to give her to me to take her in the ring she stood straight up on her hind legs, taking her into the show ring was fun as she was full of herself and didn't want to stand still and kept rearing and bucking on the lead, some how I managed to get her to stand still long enough for the judge to judge her and she was awarded first place in the thoroughbred mare class, later she was called in for the championship class ...Mares over 14.2hh and to my delight she was given Reserve Champion Mare 14.2hh and over. I was so happy with her considering this was her very first show and I had done very little preparation for this show with her.

the Judge told me that if I can get her working properly and listening she will be a top show horse and she felt that Emma would make a lovely dressage horse as she has the movement to attract the judge's eye.

After working with this little girl myself for the last few months, I've found her nature to be so sweet and loving.

She is now beginning the road to becoming part of the show team ........her tendon injury has healed exceptionally well.

As a riding mount I have found this little gal to be most responsive and she picks things up very quickly........after two 1 hour sessions she's understanding leg aids and weight shifts and slowly collecting up onto the bit.

Sunday 21st January ..............Emma frightened the heck out of me this day .........on arriving at the paddock to feed the horses, I noticed that Emma was limping and it was bad, getting closer to her I found that her right hand front leg was covered in blood .......Taking a quick appraisal of the situation I couldn't see where the blood had come from so after hosing her leg with cold water to clean the blood away I discovers two wounds on the inside of the leg right up at the top of the leg ........the alignment of these wounds would indicate that something had gone through ..........to be honest it looked like she had been shot by an arrow or something similar. the entry wound was 2 inches long and roughly 1/2 an inch deep ........this wound was still bleeding badly so at a guess I'd say she had nicked a vein and the exit wound on her elbow was 1 " wide and hard to determine the depth.

After cleaning the blood from the area I set about dressing these wounds thinking how am I going to get a dressing to stay in place so high on the leg ........elastoplasts is a wonderful thing around wounds so began the job of dressing the wounds every day and keeping infection at bay................a week later both wounds where looking good and the healing process was well on its way.......the back wound was just about completely healed and the front wound was healing well from the inside out.

During this whole time Emma never showed distress or any signs of pain other than a slight limp and a slight dragging of that leg . !0 days later she was back to her cheeky self stirring Chevelle and Pixie to play although they both seem to be aware that she's still sore and only half heartedly attempt to play.

15th July 2001 Emma had her second show .................heading down to Coolgardie towing the float

I was thinking to myself, all I ask is that Emma behaves and does what I ask in the ring hopefully today we have a better day than her last show.

Unloading Emma at the show grounds she was very alert and a little above herself as I led her to the area where I was going to tie her up but nothing major .........her first class she was alert and watching all the other horses but she was well behaved , although she wasn't placed high she did get 3rd in this class against 8 other horses and through out the day she was a little angel ..................in one of her in hand classes (halter) I honestly thought she was going to explode on me as the horse that was in front of her exploded and became a handful bucking and rearing and generally disrupting the class but Emma remained reasonable quiet ........she raised her tail over her back and her head and increased her trot pace a little but that was it she didn't go silly which I was very pleased with.

There where 3 ridden classes in this show and as Emma hadn't been ridden in this situation before I was a little apprehensive at what she would be like but saddled her and got on to warm her up.

Much to my delight she took second in the pleasure class as her and a little black 2 year old mare where the only ones that behaved and worked nicely and behaved showing that they where a pleasure to ride

At the end of the day I was very proud of this little gal ...........she came home with 1, 2nd, 6, 3rds and 4 4ths ...........not at all bad for a horse that hasn't really had that much training and she did everything that I had asked of her without any hassles so now we can only improve on that performance

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