Trust Replaces Fear

June 25, 2016Posted inCISCO, Country Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
It was quite a long time ago.  This might have been five or six years ago.  There was this horse, a fruit loop horse.  She is a sensitive horse and the wrong people bought her.  After six months, she was scared of anything human.  If anything human moved, she was scared of it. She is what Pat Parelli calls a "Hey Bob! Horse.  You are riding this horse.  You wave your arm to say hi to Bob and the horse bolts. Human arms to this horse are things that beat…

Phoenix and Let Me Ride Your Horse

June 17, 2016Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Miscellaneous, Velvet
I was like this!!  I rode other people's horses in my young adult formative years. Long long ago in the 70's, visiting in Walsenburg, Colorado, I paid a cowboy to ride his horse. This wasn't a rental horse situation.  This guy rode horses as part of his job, probably cows.  I got on his horse and rode out into the dessert, just me and the horse. I came back and rode around his property, because it was just a little boring out there in the dessert scrub. The cowboy seemed…

Life in the Herd

June 5, 2016Posted inCISCO, Country Frank's Lucky Star
Four Horse Herd is: Sweetie-Paint mare with nearly no pigment on her face to block sunburn. Sweetie has become best friends with Delta....... Sweetie is low horse in the herd in domination in the herd. Number 4, Sweetie does not let on that she likes or trusts humans until you walk up and pet her. Then she may or may not trust you. I believe she has been a brood mare all her life and has not experienced any close bonds with a human. She did not have any friends…

Enter the Horse of No Again

May 24, 2016Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
Because I have such and wonderful horse of Yes in Cisco, it is difficult to work up much incentive to ride the Horse of No, Lucky Star.  Lucky might be near full recovery from his accidental leap over the fence and ripping up his foot in September 2015. I had incentive today. It was feet trimming day with Tony Vaught.   I took him to the arena in which I ride.  He and Cisco trailered over together.  Cisco was first out of the trailer.  I tied him up.  Lucky Star…

Lucky Star Recovery 10-23-15

October 23, 2015Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
It's been nearly two weeks since I had to worry about Lucky Star and his ripped foot.  He went over a fence, but caught his back foot and tried to rip it apart.  There were weeks of constant worry from colic to him not getting up for two days.  I've now enjoyed two weeks of heaven not worrying about Lucky not making it. I came home this afternoon to see him laying down in the far pasture.  hmmmm.  I got grain and rattled the stall bars to let all the…

Round Pen #1 with Lucky Star

August 19, 2015Posted inCountry Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter
Long long ago, I discovered that a round pen was a must-have when you wanted to train a horse. I put that round pen up far away from anything that would give me shade. Being young (in my late 40's),I was out there in 90 degree heat with Sage, Velvet and the wild hackney ponies. I don't how I survived that heat in the summer time. Then the round pen became a corral backing up my barn while I traveled to stables with all the facilities, plus a covered, shady…