Sue How Do You DO?

May 20, 2012Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, 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!

May 19, 2012Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, Sue - How Do You Do!
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…

Sue How Do You Do at Being Dominate?

November 23, 2008Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
I disaprove of this time of the year.  Daylight savings has been ripped away.  I come home in the dark.  I come home in the cold.  It's just not fun to think about taking one of my sweet darlings over to Pine Dell to ride just yet. So, I'm just feeding the herd.  Sue is getting more comfortable in her skin. She's getting more dominant. For the first time ever, she laid her ears back at me and stuck out her head.  I was walking in the pasture with my…

Sue – How Do You Do at being an Onion?

September 27, 2008Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
Round pen canter success!  It took poles in the round pen.  I had them about 2" off the ground.  We clattered thru the poles at a pace and that undefined gait, we gaited horse people just love...the anti-rythym gait. We had some actual canter steps and we stopped before she broke out of the canter. I fed her a big Winnie's cookie crumb every time she cantered. Then I decided perhaps we could go for half a circle at the canter.  It took a while for us to canter at…

Sue How Do You Do trying to Canter!

September 24, 2008Posted inSue - How Do You Do!
The problem is that when I ask Sue to speed up enough to canter, she tightens her body in fear and we go into that wonderful gait that only gaited horse people know...the gait where every leg is out of sync with all the other legs.  It's called anti-rhythm. "Transitions," I thought.  We are having a hard time with transitions...even when I ask her to speed up just with a faint higher level of energy. First I thought that asking Sue to canter in the round pen would be the…