Or is it yogging…it might be a soft ‘J’…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-LnP3uraDo
(That link was also for those non English speaking readers who know what that cryptic language was on the bottom of the screen…sorry, that was the only version of that link could find.)
You might be wondering why I haven’t put a post up in awhile. Well, up until a couple weeks ago, all I could really tell you was that Mo was standing. Standing in his stall. Bored out of his mind. If he was bored, how could I possibly come up with something interesting to write about? Despite my unique ability to make a story out of virtually nothing, I can’t make a story about absolutely nothing.
However, the horse gods have breathed a small, but crisp breath of optimistic fresh air into the world of Team In Over My Head. Our tough as nails horse’s leg is healing very well. So well, that he actually has been jogging for the past couple weeks. Based on the feedback we got from our vet, we have made a decision. As of today, October 12, 2012, we are aiming toward Mo comeback version 2.0. It will be a long road and one that could obviously get derailed at some point, but we are going for it.
Keeping with the movie theme I’ve started this post with, I’ll wanted to give Mo’s comeback a snappy tagline like a movie sequel. Here were some of my early ideas.
- “Just when you thought it was safe to get back on the track”… I actually liked this one a lot, but I took it from Jaws 2: Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water. I didn’t think that Jaws 2 was any good, so we are tossing that one.
- “If at first you don’t succeed, lower your standards”…just kidding. I just put that one in there to pay homage to Tommy Boy.
- “Same make. Same model. New mission.” That one is kind of cool (from Terminator 2), but his mission isn’t really new so I had to toss it.
After careful consideration and nearly 10 minutes looking at old movie taglines (surprisingly fun by the way), I have come up with the following:
- Mo Comeback 2: Expect the impossible again.
I could give you a clue where I borrowed that one from, but it will self destruct in 10 seconds…
So you may be asking yourself, will this comeback be successful? Well, dude, we just don’t know. I do know that in life when you decide to do something, you have to believe in it 100%. If we don’t believe in it, who will? We do know that it will be awhile until he would race (likely early next summer). He needs quite a bit more time off and we are going to give him all the time he needs. At the end of the day, it is really just going to come back to the advice we get from the Butenschoen, our vet and from Mo himself. We’ve always said that the day he is brought out to the track and just isn’t interested any more is the day we quit. According to Tyler, that is the furthest thing from the truth at that point, so we will keep going. Slowly, but surely.
Something else happened to our little stable last weekend: we added another horse. This can really be traced back to Mo and his accomplishments of this past summer when he put a few more shinny nickels into the old race account. Greg, Danny and I are now the proud owners of a to be named horse who has already made it back to Illinois and, according to Tyler, is already jogging…or is it yogging…either way, Ron Burgundy would be proud.
Let’s Go Mo (and new guy)!
