There will be a new face around these parts.  On May 1st I picked up my latest retraining project, a 3 year old thoroughbred gelding that we named Tyson.  His history was a little fuzzy but I did find out that he is registered with the Jockey Club (“Rejuvenation”) but he was too calm and slow to make it off of the training track.  He was Retired sound and found himself at a southern Georgia sport horse farm where the trainer wanted to use him as her Retired Racehorse Project mount.  After finding out that he could not be used in the program, he put him in a dry lot with horses that would bully him away from the hay bale.  He got skinny.  Really skinny.  And she didn’t really do anything about it until he was waaaay too skinny.

When Tyson was brought home he was severely underweight and had rain rot (a bacterial skin infection) covering about 60% of his body.  His first night with us he colicked.  We thought that his weight, rain rot, and a sensitive stomach were his issue that we were going to be dealing with.  Little did we know… we were wrong…