Balance

Lucky and I went on a trail ride today at James A Reed.  Chas and Louie went too.  Lucky needed this trail ride.  He needed to get out and see the scenery! It's sunflower time at James A Reed park!  It's also corn time there too.  The ears are almost finished...not yet edible, but coming along. We had a great time.  Lucky is a great trail horse.  He might look at strange things, but keeps right on trucking.  He's got one spook in him and I know exactly where it's…

Lucky Star, the Punk

I might have reported that Lucky Star and I had a giant argument last Friday.  We didn't get it resolved on Saturday.  I thought it was resolved on Tuesday, but the labor strike was still ongoing as of tonight. Our arguments involve too much work expectations. So tonight, I was able to play with Lucky in a round pen..at liberty.  He had his saddle on as I expected to ride.  I asked him to move around the round pen and he told me how he felt about that.  He does…

Lucky Star Maturing? Good Gad

Never fear, Lucky Star still argues.  He did take a rein in his mouth just last week.  The young argumentative boy has turned into a more mature less argumentative boy.  Lucky and I spend a lot of time going slow, steering with the hindquarter and riding without me touching the reins.  After we get all this worked out, we might do a few drop to trot canter lead changes in a figure eight type pattern  He still breaks into a non rhythmic lateral bumpy gait.  We can't keep the three…

Cisco Love

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…

and the crowd roared…

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.…

Whah Whah Whah 2014

Winter blues along with Lucky Star little progress.  Will I ever get to show him.  Will he stop in the middle of the arena during the class.  How can I keep him going.  I've not been in a show arena for going on three years now. Will Lucky Star make it this year?  Canter isn't anywhere near solid yet.  Will he balk while we are in the show ring?  Will he argue on transition from one gait to the next?  When I ask him to slow down from a fox…