Today Lucky started loading on to a trailer without having to be led in, and then we laid her down.

Some people are against laying your horse down, but seeing what it takes to get Lucky to trust you, I will say that there is simply no other way for us to get through to her on this level. It took 75 minutes of hopping around and fighting with Chuck until she finally collapsed like a bag of bricks.

It is weird, but you can literally see the horse's mind blitz-out and go blank. She laid down and slumped over and closed her eyes and everything just changed.

And then of course, we couldn't get her back up.

She was so tired she pretty much hit the ground sleeping.

Lucky could go ten miles on three legs, if she had to.

But everything was cool and we patted her and stroked her and made everything safe, and then gave her some grains and turned her in for the day.