Tks Steve. :cool:

have a dumb question but will ask anyway – is poor Sumwon in a heated stall since her coat was clipped at the track or is she just wearing heavy blankets until it grows back in???? IT’S COLD lol..

I'm sure she is blanketed, and equally sure that she is not in a heated barn (any idea what that costs?)....but keep in mind that horses are well adapted to survive cold....first since they are hind gut fermenters they generate pretty good heat digesting...and they just shunt blood away from the extremeties and back toward the core during cold weather....without wind or rain they don't really notice cold until it gets below 15-20 degrees.
and in truly cold weather like VT where I used to live....it takes about 5 pounds of hay to raise a horses temp one degree (I forget where I read that....but you just load them up on roughage when it's cold)

No, blankets only (nice ones though)

I have been loading up on roughage and its not working....

You must not be a hind gut fermenter...??

roughage does not include steak and ribs....

guess reason asked is have no idea what kind of facility it is, large layup center or just a couple of stalls in somebody's backyard - but what you say is all true - this is the best time of year for them, they love the cold, the mud the snow, it's a "horse" thing lol - am half-afraid Sumwon is gonna be tearin the doors off her stall to get out in it, am sending best wishes to her handlers RIGHT NOW !

and hadta chuckle about your reference to vermont, recently received some pictures of a friend's christmas vacation there, am left with no complaints lol...

damn..got back to my desk too late..Wanted to be the first to use hind gut fermenter in a sentence..

maybe I'll see if the Jockey Club has that name available...let's see Battaglia handle...."hindgutfermenter..gaaaaaaining ground

or ... "turning on the after burners" :D

...and from the back of the pack it is hindgutfermenter coming with a late rush
...or....
...and down on the inside it's hindgutfermenter who is making a big late move...

or..

hindgutfermenter...running out of gas..nothing left in the tank
hindgutfermenter...running on fumes

...hindgutfermenter is a bit rank today...

they'll have to sprout wings to catch hindgutfermenter

If it's the place I'm thinking of (a place I've been to) it's very nice physically, good-sized professional working barn, and the time I was there the place was very clean, the horses happy, calm, and well-kept.

blog update DTers

thank you for the reassurances, just didn't want Sumwon to think she's been sent off to a detention center and end up having a hissy like paris hilton - I'M KIDDING...

but would be nice if she was in somebody's backyard barn, maybe they'd write to us about her... :o