Miss Jinx, born in 2003, registered name Blue Spectacle, was a very fortunate thoroughbred, bred to race.  She obviously was blessed to have an owner or trainer that helped her find another home when her lungs were damaged during early training as a two year old. Since she did not have an aggressive or competitive bone in her body, she probably would not have been very good anyways. 😉  We believe she did some hunting and jumping after she left the track, but she eventually ended up with another thoroughbred mare in a small pasture being fed, but otherwise ignored for years, until she was donated.  Horses need a purpose and a job, a reason to feel needed and appreciated, just like we do.

Like Miss Lexi, she also stops sweating in the summer, called anhydrosis.  And finally she had a mild case of endometriosis, giving her a belly ache occasionally, with colic-like symptoms. She loved being one of Chandler’s sister-wives cause it gave her a lot more power in the herd . . . it’s who you know, right? She lost the vision in one of her eyes in 2021 which we struggled to prevent over months, but with no success.  We stopped riding her a couple years ago due to her increasing arthritis.  Finally, in the summer of 2022 we made the very hard decision to euthanize her when we knew we had to help Mr. Chandler go.  She had become totally dependent on his protection from a life that caused her a great deal of anxiety.  We knew she would never feel safe and happy without him.