Country Frank’s Lucky Star

I told you Lucky Star was moving to left brain extrovert!  Actually, it was Jenny that told me and I passed it along to Lucky Star's fan club. I took the Horse and Human "ality" match test early this week after listening to Dr. Patrick Handley's lecture about personalities last Saturday.  I really wanted to find out who was living in my body, and thought it would be fun to see where Lucky Star appears on the chart. Lucky Star is still in the left brain introvert quadrant, but he's…

Lucky Star and I came roaring into Pine Dell Farm at our customary 3 mph jet speed.  We were late for the Wed nite lesson.  The horses and riders were coming from the great outdoor playground to the arena.  We pulled in and Karen said that Lucky and I might want to warm up in the playground. We did warm up.  Yesterday's Rocket-Man was gone and the obediant Lucky Star took the spotlight.  Lucky Star is not fully obediant yet, but he was good, darned good. We strolled down, got…

Lucky Star, the non-moving horse, peeled another layer off his personality today.   Let's laugh at the original concept of the horse that won't move. Lucky Star knows his good Arabian friend, aMuir, is at Pine Dell. Lucky Star pulled into Pine Dell in his trailer.  AMuir must remember our trailer. Lucky Star was in the beginning stage of our ride, when we heard a nicker from the pasture horses. I suspect it was aMuir. AMuir lived at our house for a while and he and Lucky became best of friends geldings.  Lucky…

I'm not saying this for anyone to know. Keep this away from prying ears. No one needs to know I haven't ride Lucky Star in two weeks. Most of last week I was watching Nova and Velvet at the National Spring Fix Trotter show with Tony Vaught and Nichole riding. I did ride Velvet twice. So it's not like my cheek riding calluses got soft. This week I've been pretending to be exhausted from last week. I perked up by Wednesday. I worked on editing my book instead of riding.…

We call it a Playground. It's fun to request your horse do extraordinary tasks like backing, sidepassing and going forward. Lucky Star is owned by Stoneridge Farm

The space craft has come around from behind the moon and checked back in with Houston. Lucky Star has checked in with Susan Houston and we have a communication about the flat foot walk and the fox trot. Lucky will give me both gaits sometime after my request. Lucky's favorite gait is the "not move immediately upon receiving the signal" and the fox trot. Now he is giving me that signature "walk" and keep it going. The canter to the right is there and the canter to the left is…