Meg and Mike Adams arrived in Lexington yesterday afternoon. John picked up Nash from Top Hat Farm and brought him to Biglow Farms which is close to our house. Nash had a massage and accupuncture yesterday before leaving, so he was ready for his journey. Sue Adams and Sandi Neal showed John how to do "cookie stretches" when Nash got out of the trailer. John also turned him out for a good roll in the arena.
We woke up at 2AM this morning and started the journey to the Fed Ex Depot in Oakland. Nash loaded up and off we went with our coffee and sleep in our eyes. We arrived at Fed Ex about 4:20 and were quite surprised at the very tight security. We both had to check in, show picture I'd, receive a guest pass sticker and an arm band. We had a full time escort. The place is HUGE and we followed our escort around to the equine containers sitting out on the blacktop. We were the first of the horses to arrive. Our handler (the person who flies with the horses), is an ex-jockey from Bay Meadows. After preparing the container for two horses, we unloaded Nash from our trailer and handed him to his handler. Nash was unsure about loading in that funny-looking box with the steep ramp. I offered to load Nash and was allowed to do so. Nash had a few hesitations, partly because I tripped over bars in the ramp! Finally, both of us went in the container. John told the guys to leave me in there and save the Adams some money on airfare - that guy is always joking, (I think)!!! I stayed at Nash's head until his travelling buddy was loaded and everything was secured. Nash didn't have his name on his halter for ID, so I used duct tape and a marker to label his halter. Good old duct tape-don't leave home without it. John and I were asked to leave and escorted off of Fed Ex property. We were heading back to the valley as the sun was rising. Its very exciting and a little nerve-wracking, but so far, so good. Now to breakfast...more tomorrow.
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