Missouri Fox Trotter

Here's the morale of the story.  If the horse is doing something that is not normal or weird or bad behavior, we rule out the physical first. Lucky Star still had his grumpy spots during the lesson.  He flashed his ears back again when I put my feet in the stirrup with a little weight transfer.  Sort of like I was going to get on him, ya know like mounting him.   That's just not his personality. So, Lucky Star got to go see Dr. Randy again, but this time for…

Lucky Star and I went over to Pine Dell for our 2nd group lesson.  Lucky Star learned how to skip and stagger. Well, really he learned how to stay calm and quiet while I skipped and then staggered around him.  It's a desensitizing thing.  He got to have all the fun, watching a lunatic and then get petted.  I was dressed in my sexy red Christmas Rueben fleece coat (50% off from Curvy Cowgirl) and my Santa Claus hat.  It had gotten up to a 60 degree grey day and…

I told Lucky Star we needed to get a good picture as I had not put his picture up on Facebook for a while. Then I had to explain Facebook. I explained that he had fans. I explained that his fans were following his progress on this blog. Well, Lucky Star wants his own Facebook page so he can tell the truth about how he's coming along. He's afraid I might not tell everything. sigh...who am I to deny "Mr. Cuteness" anything. We played in the small outdoor arena at…

Karen Moulis was my first instructor.  It was she that took me from rigid fear to someone that could ride.  Karen is great for beginning riders, aging old beginning adult riders and everyone in between. When I passed Level 1, I discovered lessons with Karen's daughter Jenny and my life with horses evolved. Karen is still instructing at Pine Dell Farm and has thousands of students since I left her way back when.  I decided that Lucky Star would benefit highly in weekly lesson at Pine Dell Farm. Where else…

Introvert  horses like to stand still.  Lucky Star likes to stand still on a pedestal where everyone can admire his "cuteness". Tonight when we got into the arena, I was chatting with some Lucky Star admirers.  We had just got done chatting and Lucky Star decided to leave me and investigate the arena on his own.  humph!  So when he turned his rear towards me, I told his rear that it had to move on out at a quite faster speed. He sped around the arena a couple of times…