Big Pipe Dream Plan

Posted inMiscellaneous
The original plan was to magically write a book this past winter, magically get it published and to be paperback bound in time for the Missouri Fox Trotter World Celebration.  It would also hit the shelves and earn me a million dollars, force me to retire,  write more books, build a million dollar indoor arena and to hire Tony and Jenny Vaught to be my personal horse trainers. I told you that the book started taking over and demanding to write its self. Then I learned that it actually takes time…

Powder’s Progress

Posted inPowder
 Powder is with Tony and Jenny Vaught for her start. (Both Tony and Jenny took two Young Horse Development clinics with Pat Parelli and Ronnie Willis before they had to drop out of the program.) And you know that my horses are gaited. Gait is forever on a gaited horse owner’s mind. Tony said he had been riding Powder about a week or so.  I gulped and thought, here’s the moment to ask…. "How’s her gait?" I said. Tony didn’t answer for a few seconds. I thought he might say…