Tilt-A-Wheel

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…

Sue How Do You DO?

Our first trail ride in over three years was today.  Sue was fabulous, just fabulous.  She has the nicest flat foot walk and goes anywhere.  She went everywhere, except when I told the crowd she would go anywhere. Then she refused.  It's up to the horse to humiliate the rider whenever possible.  No matter, it was down a steep hill into a ravine.  I wouldn't have wanted to go down that hill either, but this was a trail ride. This was an official Fox Trotter Club ride and Hope and…

Sue, How Do You Like Returning Home!

Sue returned home yesterday. I left Lucky Star with Tony and Jenny for a 5 day Lucky upgrade. This gives me no one to ride but Sue. I took Sue for a walk today around the neighbors turf farm. It's fun to take a horse for a walk if they don't try to run over you, eat grass, balk etc. Sue is a perfect horse to walk with. She is an exercise horse! I even ran with her. She stays about 6" behind my shoulder. I can run for about…

Lucky Star Personality

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…

Vote for Lynette and DJ on May 29

I've been riding with Lynette for years at clinics and horse camps with natural horsemanship trainers, Tony and Jenny Vaught. Two years ago Lynette bought a Missouri Fox Trotter from Big Barn Ranch named DJ. DJ had been trained by Tony and Jenny Vaught, but he still had a journey to cover with Lynette to bring him along into being a happy "finished bridle horse".  I was there participating in some of the clinics in which Lynette and DJ participated.  It was fun to watch Lynette learn what Missouri Fox…