Day 3&4 September 20 & 21

Well September 20th was a busy and sad day, Carol Steiner was bucked off Jax at the end of the training ride, still not sure what happened to set him off as he is not a bucker, wasp(s) are the big suspects at the moment.  Carol suffered 5 broken ribs, 1 cracked, collapsed lung and a separated shoulder, she was in the step down unit over night.  As of tonight she is doing well, and rumor has it that she may be getting out of bed for a walk tomorrow.  Get well soon Carol, we miss yo u!!!

Check out the Endurance Canada web page for detail daily updates on the going ons at WEG the web page is www.endurancecanada.ca

Today we did the final inspection of the horses, including Mocha who came over from the barn she has been stay at.  The Definite Entries and the horses going into the barn are Appache, NL Temptation, Galaxy, Sport, Tesse, and Teese, with Kozaar as the reserve, and Mocha as the alternate.  The horses will continue to be evaluated on a daily basis up to race day.

This afternoon Kay, Roxy and I helped Kerri with picking up the Team Canada golf cart and vans/car which we will also be getting to use during the games; we also worked with the WEG show office to sort out 2 accreditation's which will give all the team access to the venue during the Endurance portions of the games, if we are successful it will mean that we don't need to purchase day access passes to the venue for the 24, 25 and 27.  Here's hoping !

Then off to tour around the grounds before3 they lock it down tomorrow which will mean there is no car access to the venue, one will need to park in the assigned parking lots and walk, use the golf cart or use a bicycle.  We went down to the Endurance Vet Gate and here are some photo's

The crew tents

The Canadian Crew tent, a little larger than expected, is across from the out Vet gate exit and will be able to see all the vet trot outs

The monitors at the end of the trotting lanes, will show the pulse, and if there is a vote a green light or red light

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the arrival gates and vet in gates look like they will have 6 lanes





The entrance that we will be using to go to and from for the crew points



Grooms quarters at the RV park





Well tomorrow should be not so busy, starting to get close to race day 4 sleeps