Country Frank’s Lucky Star

Lucky Star and I went on a trail ride today with Hope and Jazz. We got to the park at 9:00 and there were several riding groups that had the same idea. We had a great ride. After staying a week at For The Horse Ranch with Tony and Jenny Vaught, Lucky Star was in best gait form ever. Lucky gave me the longest, nicest flat foot walk ever. Ah, sigh. How nice is that 4 best rhythmic beat. He gave me some long stretches of fox trot too. I…

Have you ever seen a Tilt-A-Wheel at a carnival.  You know how the platform turns and the thing that is attached to the platform turns and spins. That's sort of like what Lucky Star's brain is like.  He has a very active brain that is always working, whirling, tilting and zipping around the track.  His brain is looking for fun and play. In the arena, I'm trying to keep him on the rail and work on exciting things like straightness, gait, haunches in.  Lucky Star is not thinking those are…

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…

Everything I hate about horse shows is the making-the-horse- pretty part.  My love of grooming, clipping and bathing is a triple infinity negative. Lucky Star is extremely protective about his ears.  Clipping his ears just didn't work well with the clipper.  We had an evening long disagreement about the scissor noise next to his ear.  Guess what Lucky Star and I are going to do during the May 2012 week-long Natural Solutions Horse Camp with Tony and Jenny Vaught.  Yep, we'll be working on clipping his ears, using natural solutions to…