Milo had a check up from his long time vet, Susanna Ballinger, yesterday. We trotted him up, did a flexion test all round and watched him on the lunge and on the gallops. He also had both front legs scanned to compare with the scans we took at the start of the year.
Considering its only just over 2 weeks since he completed Burghley he's in great shape. He's moving really well and looks very relaxed and all tests were fine. According to Mark he's going really well on the flat and is even doing some quite nice flying changes!!... perhaps Mark is still in some post-Olympic haze and is just dreaming this then but you never know.....
Mark's new yard, Badgerstown is really coming along, there's lots of work to do still but the new tack room is great as is the new, purpose built rug room. I got to ride Leo on the gallops and Sam out on the Ridgeway (see their blogs for more details).
Milo's next outing is a warm up run in the OI at Little Downham (1st October) and then on to Pau. I'm taking a leisurely trip down there by train on the 24th October, Pete's flying down and we're both flying back direct to City airport from Pau itself - marvellous !!
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