Posts by Susan

It’s too hot to ride in afternoons now. I’ve enjoyed nearly seven years of retirement of “sleeping in”. (I spent 42 years and six months getting up at horrible early morning time clocks!) Fancy is an intriguing challenge that inspires me to change back into a day light person. Being mature woman of sound mind, I’ve decided that the worst part of getting up dreadfully early in the morning, 8:30, is the getting up part. I forgot about coffee. Patterson Performance arena is a wonderful place to ride. Fancy and…

When I woke up, I never knew this was the day my life was to change. My regular life order delayed my Fancy ride to around 3:30pm. Terry, the spouse is used to eating around 4:00-4:30. Tony Vaught texted me in early afternoon that he would appear around 5:30 to trim Fancy's feet. Oh good. I left Fancy and went home to get the spouse food. I was back with Fancy waiting for Tony. We had some nice undemanding time while she snarfed grass. Tony arrived and trimmed Fancy. We…

5/10/19-5/12/19 Next in our life is a 3 day clinic with 6 Star Parelli Master Clinician, Dave Ellis. I rode with Dave in many clinic is my younger 40 and 50 age years. It's twenty years later and I have an "intriguing" super talented horse that I'm having trouble connecting to. The mornings are a group clinic. The afternoon is private lessons. In our first morning clinic, we did our ground play under Dave's direction. Fancy was very nervous in this arena. It was one of the cloth arenas and…

We arrived at the show ground and parked win a gold spot which means no backing necessary and close to the arena of competition! Fancy unloaded and put on her show outfit. We went to the arena and walked around. We ran around (she ran around) some and she looked like a horse I could ride, I mounted and the. We discovered one long end of the arena is scary. We made that manageable and returned to the trailer. YI went into the tack room, hid my phone from myself…

After a rest period of a couple days, Fancy went back to the stable. We rode. Fancy is still a go and then go horse. I'm still trying to figure out how to keep her at the same speed in the flat foot walk and fox trot. We are doing better, but there is not much consistent speed. Also, she takes umbrage at my request to go forward, hollows her back, throws up her head and goes into a ugly lateral gait (pace). I discover her back is sore and…