This week’s edition of #EventerProblems comes courtesy of Area II eventer Abby Foltz, who explains: “Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my Prelim event horse, who upon finding out that his paddock entrance was re-done with gravel while he was in Florida, cannot figure out how to get onto the grass. His paddock mate is over to the left eating and he doesn’t know how she got over there.”
When not stranded and left for dead on a few square feet of gravel, Everett (competition name: What Everett Takes) is a super brave cross country machine. Abby has owned almost 15-year-old OTTB for five years and she reports that while he will jump anything in front of him on the cross country course, “he really, really hates when the ground changes color or texture. Like, a lot.”
Leaping over brush into water … no problem! Stepping from gravel patch onto grass … impossible. Photo by Brant Gamma.
It took poor Everett a full hour to escape his gravel prison, eliciting the hashtag-able comment “Everette to Harvard” from friend Jaclyn Burke when Abby posted the video to Facebook.
Abby says that while her horse is quirky and has a LOT of opinions, she loves him dearly. Although, she notes, “Apparently we could have saved lots of money on fencing.”
Go Eventing.
