Susan – Page 94 – Susan's Viewpoint

Powder’s Progress – Confidence!

By Susan June 11, 2009Powder

What an amazing clinic we had today. We had a lot of fun. All the horses calmly handled all the things presented to them Powder took on every obstacle immediately when asked. She was asked to pose for the auditors and decided to wear a hat. The original hat picture had the red eye and I tried to fix her eyes. Her eyes right now are blue distilled by green. The Tower of Doom is in the background of one picture. I led her right thru it with no hesitation…

Nova’s Notebook – Lead Changes-Rollbacks-Slide Stops

By Susan May 24, 2009NOVA

Nova and I rode in a Fox Trotter Reining and Western Horsemanship Clinic with Tony and Jenny Vaught this afternoon in Stockton. Four hours of lead changes, flying change attempts, roll backs, stops, backs and leg yielding is enough she sez This is Nova hanging up her hat for the day! Enough!

Nova’s Notebook – Nameless Rider Mount/Dismount

By Susan March 16, 2009NOVA

Ahh, thank goodness for warm weather and daylight savings. My after work trail riding has started. The person I ride with, forever to be nameless, was quite entertaining on our first after work ride. Her horse got a big branch caught in his tail. When that happened last year, he panicked. I was riding clean up tonight and spotted the instant he got the branch in his tail. She slid off and removed the offending thing. Getting back on for us without a mounting block is quite a chore. Luckily,…

Sue How Do You Do at Being Dominate?

By Susan November 23, 2008Sue - How Do You Do!

I disaprove of this time of the year. Daylight savings has been ripped away. I come home in the dark. I come home in the cold. It's just not fun to think about taking one of my sweet darlings over to Pine Dell to ride just yet. So, I'm just feeding the herd. Sue is getting more comfortable in her skin. She's getting more dominant. For the first time ever, she laid her ears back at me and stuck out her head. I was walking in the pasture with my…

Velvet and Susan – Free Style Competition

By Susan October 20, 2008Velvet

See our bridless: Having a Ball, Reining (raining) Horse and dressage demonstration This is Women and Horses Expo - three days of versatility competition. The third day is free style. I got 298 points out of 300 for this. Dratted photographer couldn't get the entire show and the sound was bad! oh well

Velvet and Susan Compete at Women and Horses Expo

By Susan October 17, 2008Velvet

Velvet and I competed in the 2008 Women and Horses Expo three day Versatility event. The last day was Free Style. Watch us...the photographer couldn't see me and the sound was bad. Oh well!