That was two years ago- she took awhile off while pregnant- unfortunately baby was still born. But now she is back at 18 and is just as sharp as she was back then!
She's doing better though. My eventual goal is for her to let me touch her all over, but I don't know if she'll ever let me, owing to all her surgery trauma
As said- there is a barn near me, just closed to public. Which is common practice and the same rings true at the barn I am at, so I cannot hold that against them. I can read all the internet garb I want- but I do not solely go off of media on things. Real life experiences is what I go off of mostly :)