CISCO

The Super Horse Missouri Fox Trotter Competition this past June was truly "super" for me. Nichole Copple and Velvet won the Open Championship. Caitlyn Vaught and Powder won the Youth Championship. I won something too, even though I didn't participate in the arena. I won a horse! The horse was donated by Charles and Dawn Lindsay of Marshfield, Missouri. It was winter 2014. The proceeds of the raffle went to a fund for special needs children. I saw the head shot picture of the horse. He was a black horse…

What an amazing horse is Cisco! Cisco is doing great. I loaded him and Lucky into the trailer and we went to play some ground games. Lucky was fine tied to trailer and eating grass while Cisco and I played the seven Parelli games. Cisco is wonderful. I decided that the  last game  would be me sending him into the trailer. He's fine with being led into the trailer, but me asking him to load is just a little different. I won the game when Cisco loaded him self into…

It was 1999 and Velvet and I were doing the World Celebration for Missouri Fox Trotters in Ava, Missouri.  It was night and Velvet was tucked in her stall for the evening. I wandered up to the arena to watch the horses in the historic arena perform the gaits of the Missouri Fox Trotter. It was the Four Year Old Stallion and Geldings class that I sat down to watch.  The riders and horses blew into the arena and the crowd studied the horse and rider as they passed by.…