Mellanie comes home.

BenB · Postby **BenB** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 12:26 pm

After all the investigations we have been dooiing, it seems to be sure,
she needs an other place to stay freshing her up.
I have been keeping my word to my trainer which gave him an honest change for changing.
She will come Sunday a week, than she will face sea, seagulls, salty cold water and long sandbeaches.
The kids will find it very exciting, but for me it is a bit controversial.
She is by far the best, we have had during the last twenty years, but we lost sight with the right button.
I think she lost her heart in the derby.

Denise · Postby **Denise** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:26 am

Sometimes, all it takes is a freshener and time away from training and the races so that they can remember to be a horse again, BenB.
I'm sure Mellanie will welcome the change and I bet it helps her a lot.

Denise

monicabee · Postby **monicabee** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:12 am

Maybe Mellanie will suprise you again after a vacation.

Good luck.

geowarrior · Postby **geowarrior** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:04 pm

Yes, don't lose hope till she's had a nice vacation.

BenB · Postby **BenB** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:32 am

The trainer decided to give her one final run.
Track turf gooiing heavy. draw nine from eleven. gooiing heavy. 9 furlongs at our hometrack. Purse almost nothing.
Allowance for horses that has not won in 2006. 4 pounds. Considering handicap weight and racecondition she is in favour 10 pds.
After the race we take her home.
Don,t see the sun galore yet, but who knows.
When her condition does not makes my happy, I will ask the trainer for drawing her back.

Postby **Roguelet** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:27 am

Perhaps this is just what she needs to get her confidence back...

BenB · Postby **BenB** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:53 am

Roguelet, I agree with you more than everybody else, that,s part of the deal I made with our trainer.
And we have been seeiing this race for quite a while.
But It might be most likely, turning out in something what I dislike, this happened for a major part of the year.

Bill from WA · Postby **Bill from WA** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:45 am

Good luck Ben.

Bill

BenB · Postby **BenB** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:07 pm

Third within a lenght from the winner after an terrible expensive bend
gooiing 4 wide. Came up from seventh and took a long rally on the outside
just couldn,t push the last 50 yards.
So most glad that she was fighting again.
She enjoys the quite life, without pressed works.
She is now at the new place, and the wife and kids petted her already,
for the first time she is open stabled and is able to look at her neighbours
also able to look outside her stable. So three sides open.

BenB · Postby **BenB** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:36 pm

One phrase I should explain in my last post, she was enjoying vacation
before her last start, only dooiing a little jogging outside the trainers place
and a number of hours in the pasture with her little (16.2) yearling half sister, which was putting her hind hoove into Mellanies back at Sunday morning just before gooing to the race.
So she was freshed up al little bit already.
The hoof mark is one to remember and needs a little bit of treatment in the next days.

geowarrior · Postby **geowarrior** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:28 am

Sounds like a feisty little sister. Glad she did well in the race for you, you sound much more optimistic, and now your whole family will get to enjoy her company.

BenB · Postby **BenB** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:15 pm

Iam more optimistic than I was, and maybe we took the right desicion
getting her home.
Today she jogged for the first time in the cold salty water and she behaved extremely well after a few friendly words but determent she got in the water up her knees. Beiing freshed up for more than an hour.
Seagulls all around.
There is no better place for training a horse than out there.
Quiet, always a perfectly shaped track and lots of space.