Sue How Do You DO?

May 20, 2012Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, Sue - How Do You Do!
Our first trail ride in over three years was today.  Sue was fabulous, just fabulous.  She has the nicest flat foot walk and goes anywhere.  She went everywhere, except when I told the crowd she would go anywhere. Then she refused.  It's up to the horse to humiliate the rider whenever possible.  No matter, it was down a steep hill into a ravine.  I wouldn't have wanted to go down that hill either, but this was a trail ride. This was an official Fox Trotter Club ride and Hope and…

Sue, How Do You Like Returning Home!

May 19, 2012Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, Sue - How Do You Do!
Sue returned home yesterday. I left Lucky Star with Tony and Jenny for a 5 day Lucky upgrade. This gives me no one to ride but Sue. I took Sue for a walk today around the neighbors turf farm. It's fun to take a horse for a walk if they don't try to run over you, eat grass, balk etc. Sue is a perfect horse to walk with. She is an exercise horse! I even ran with her. She stays about 6" behind my shoulder. I can run for about…

Lucky Star Personality

May 19, 2012Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
I was so happy to have a left brain introvert. Introverts don't move their feet. Their mouth generally doesn't grab stuff and play with it. Their lips stay right in their head which doesn't move. Extroverts move their feet and their lips play with anything they can find. They constantly demand your attention. Since Lucky Star proved immensely difficult to move his feet per a human request, he was diagnosed as introvert. Turns out he's an extreme willful dominant horse who cared little what pressure was put on him to…

Flying NO-STOP Wedge

May 12, 2012Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star
Once again on a trail ride at James A Reed park,  I yelled multiple times, STOP, STOP STOP.  This time Hope yelled STOP also. She also yelled "Young Horse". We both put our hand in the air in the universal STOP language. Here's how it went late this afternoon. I was riding Lucky Star and Hope was riding Chip.  Lucky Star was in the lead and we were walking over a storm pipe.  It's dirt where the horses walk, but the pipe is visible on both sides.  There is thick…

Vote for Lynette and DJ on May 29

May 11, 2012Posted inACTHA, Miscellaneous, Missouri Fox Trotter
I've been riding with Lynette for years at clinics and horse camps with natural horsemanship trainers, Tony and Jenny Vaught. Two years ago Lynette bought a Missouri Fox Trotter from Big Barn Ranch named DJ. DJ had been trained by Tony and Jenny Vaught, but he still had a journey to cover with Lynette to bring him along into being a happy "finished bridle horse".  I was there participating in some of the clinics in which Lynette and DJ participated.  It was fun to watch Lynette learn what Missouri Fox…