Going Viral

The riding school has been a real challenge this year because of the weather. I plan the school in the winter to avoid the summer rains and busy performance schedule, but this year it hasn't worked out well. We had scheduled the school to avoid the trip to Las Vegas, but the rains came the week prior and the week after causing us to miss three weeks of training. And then, some of the horses came down with a virus which has spread throughout he herd. On Thursday all the horses had to be quarantined. It's not a fatal virus, but caused the horses to get runny noses and and other cold-like symptoms. We are still waiting for the blood work to determine exactly what it is. However, it has affectively shut down our school until after the new year.