Sue – How Do You Spell Progress?

July 15, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
This was a three hour group lesson in brutal heat. We started at 9:00 am and by noon everyone was very willing to STOP. Last night I had watched the latest Parelli pod cast. It was about horses that are scared to have horses behind them or meet other horses. Talk about right on time Pod Cast! Pat rode his pretend fearful horse, Cash, in the round pen. Linda's job was to canter around the outside of the round pen. Cash rode on the rail inside and when she got…

Sue – How Do You Do with your Pathetic Rider?

July 10, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
Monday nite lesson. Here was another riding experience when I was more scared than Sue! Of course you know that Sue doesn't like other horses too close to her and certainly not Behind Her!At the Monday nite lesson, someone rode too close behind her. Sue tightened up. I tried to zip around the arena, cut through the middle etc and lose the horse, BUT NO! The horse stayed right on Sue's tail. I asked the rider not to ride that close to us, but nothing happened. I was pretty desparate…

Sue – How Do You do in a Clinic with Many Horses?

July 8, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
We had an Advancing Clinic at Pine Dell today. Part of our ground work -assigned only to Sue and I- was driving using the 45' rope. It's a stiff rope, like a lariat. It's very long. Sue didn't like it moving behind her rear end very much. I stayed right beside her and asked her to move on the rail. It didn't work at all in the arena. She got nervous about the rope on her rear end and got her feet outside of the "reins". I wasn't handy enough…

Sue – How Do You Love the Monday Nite Lesson?

June 26, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
We rode outside in the huge arena up in the 40 acre hay field, obstacle course, horse riding pasture etc. Now that I'm not afraid anymore, riding Sue was fun. I had Sue run around a little bit in the obstacle course. She did beautifully. There were quite a few horses in the arena...well there were seven of us. Part of the arena had standing water so that became one of the ground games we played before we got on. Heck, I sent Sue right into the mud and water.…

Sue – How Do You Do in a Horse Development Clinic?

May 29, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
We had the Whole Enchillada Memorial Day Weekend in Bentonville. We had the Friday evening free demonstration where the entire Vaught family (except 3 year old Justin) rode their horses and knocked the socks off the crowd. Five year old Caitlyn rode Velvet. At the end, Caitly asked Velvet to lie down and she wowed the crowd. Saturday, we had the Difficult and Challenging Horse Demonstration. That was very cool. Tony had to take a long time with Scout to get him relaxed and unafraid so that he could ride…

Sue – How Do You Do with Friends?

May 24, 2006Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
I set aside my fears tonight and it felt good. We got to ride outside in the big arena with dear good friends. That felt really good. We warmed up really good. We are trying to do the hill climbing that Linda Parelli recommends so that Sue will be better balanced. Sue gets to trot up and down a small hill.  She also got to jump over some logs. What a fine time she had. Our friends were in the arena. Our good friend Jane opened the gate for us.…