WE DID IT!

You can’t make this stuff up and that’s truly the essence of life: Life is rarely a perfect case scenario. Re-Assessing, navigating, adapting, adjusting and dealing with life’s challenges thrown into the mix ARE some of the most valuable lessons of any pursued endeavors and goals in this life.

The past few weeks have been throwing some major curve balls into our plan, training program, mindset and confidence that made us wonder if we would or should still make it to Vegas for Nationals… Idol colicing and having an abscess in one of his back hooves, Emily, our trainer, getting into a serious car crash and injury, having us all worried and reducing the initially set training schedule… Then, just a few days prior to departure Idol telling us he can’t proceed in the flat workout they had started and went to lay on the ground in pain!?

More emergency Vet calls, tears and all…

Idol was diagnosed with a common “Thoroughbred side effect”: an ulcer. The vet believes that the medications should get him back on his feet and hopefully in due time for the competition… & Emily is one tough woman sitting on the plane to Vegas as a write, ready for the journey (right after her surgery!) So thankful.

They worked so hard as a team this year… Another amazing year together to say the least!

It would of course be wonderful to see them all at their best in order to shine for their final competition together ✨ But hey!? Life’s not a best case scenario… What matters is that Idol Bug and Emily are and remain ok and we all still get an opportunity to share this experience together, once again!

We’ll see how it goes with the work put in this far & the stack of cards we’ve been dealt as of late! It is Las Vegas after all!!

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