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By Susan June 25, 2014Country Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter

Here's what went viral. A beautiful country scene with quite a few trees. "CRACK!" The crack of a bull whip. Thundering hooves. Seems like several minutes of thundering horse hooves. We anticipate seeing the horse come thru the tree line. Finally, we see the horse galloping through the tree line headed our way. The horse gallops to a horse trailer and hops in! "Wow," we all said as we shared it with friends. This was Australia and the bull whip cracker was a Pat Parelli student. I replied to all…

Mouthy Mouthy Tales of Lucky Star

By Susan June 20, 2014Country Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter

Nearly Summer in Kansas City land. Lucky Star and I went at it this morning about 11:00 till after 12. We cantered. We zoomed around. We played pair class with Karin. Something sensational happened with our pair exercise with another gelding. Lucky Star did not pin his ears and threaten to eat Karin's gelding. We rode close together without a Lucky pinned ear swishy tail non verbal war. I might survive being in a horse show rail class! I was starting to feel like a heat stroke victim, so we…

Lucky Star Lost His Slide Stop

By Susan June 15, 2014Country Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter

Lucky Star has a two foot slide stop from a slow walk. You think I'm exaggerating! OK, try this... Lucky Star can do a slide stop at the slowest walk speed that exists. He can almost do a slide stop from a halt. He's got the chunky four corner square body and conformation to do this. So that's why I was really surprised when our slide stop evaporated at the Cow Clinic. It turns out, Lucky loves to move when he's dealing with other horses and cows. Stopping fast isn't…

Sam’s Fairy Houses

By Susan April 17, 2014Miscellaneous, Missouri Fox Trotter

Samantha (Sam) Cowick, age 7, told her mother, Summer, that she wanted to help children who needed help. After some research, she told Samantha about some places where children could use some help. When Sam heard about SAFEHOME, a shelter for battered women and children, she stated, “this is the one”. Sam’s idea is to decorate birdhouses with the goal of making them suitable for fairies to live in the houses. Summer, Sam and others in the family go find birdhouses that meet Sam’s approval. They buy material that Sam…

Just Act Like Linda Parelli!

By Susan March 31, 2014Country Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter

One Parelli Tour Stop and Lucky Star acts like a willing horse with a go button. I found the secret. All I have to do is pretend I'm Linda Parelli and poof, Lucky Star fell for it! One portion of the Parelli program is bringing in four horses that have each personality type...left and right brained extrovert and left and right brained introvert. Lucky is a left brained introvert..."What's in it for me?" More Whoa, Low Energy, Tendancy to stop. Linda took us on a tour of each horse's personality…

He Did What?

By Susan March 21, 2014Country Frank's Lucky Star, Missouri Fox Trotter

I must post this as documentation of Lucky Star's progress. Weather has turned nice and I'm able to ride and play with Lucky Star most every day. We make amazing progress when consistency happens. Are you sitting down? This is a stunner. We have been practicing our jumping with the latest success of jumping over barrels with only the front legs...and that isn't often. Usually, Lucky Star balks at the barrels and just plows into them. We have managed to jump the barrels with his front legs but then he…