12 months ago, Fenway and Libby were in Tullamore competing at the National ODE Championships. A year later, having just completed 6 weeks of box rest and walking rehab, Fenway is celebrating Week 1 of a year’s sabbatical — only 51 to go. A recurrent suspensory ligament problem which defies all rehab programmes, care and nursing, has earned the club’s most fragile four-legged a year out in the field.
Damien has dispatched Armstrong to Rathmullan to take up super-sub duties. He’s settled in happily and, all going according to plan, he’ll stay until Christmas. At that stage he’ll be relieved of duty by Libby’s earliest riding club mount, her sister Catherine’s Anglo-Arab mare, Mai. Mai currently has a foal at foot but she’ll be weaned by the end of the year.
Now Libby is considering her chances of reaching the bestseller lists with her proposed book, Surviving the Heartbreak: Home-baked Psychology for Horse-Owners. Meanwhile she’s available 24/7 for counselling distraught club members whose horses have hit the skids.
Pictured below: Fenway‘s last riding club appearance at the Border Counties ODE in July; Enjoying Week 1 in the sanatorium with pal, Prophet.
Letterkenny Riding Club 