Fancy is a Star Mishmash of Dave Ellis Clinic

April 15, 2020Posted inFancy, Parelli
HI’m starting to write notes of all the devious, tricky difficult evil maneuvers, plus horse history: Dave meeting Pat amazing story; difference between English and Western riding is war; difference between Texas cowboys and California cowboys; riding offense or defense sidepass or leg yield or turn the hindquarters; ride halfway across arena with feel, turn reins loose and canter the rest of the way; hindquarter turn, back up alternating steps; lead change exercise- California roll rein feel, one rein shorter, leg yield and canter; three strides to get canter, give…

Virtual Horse Shows During the Pandemic

April 9, 2020Posted inFancy, Missouri Fox Trotter
Keeping social distance, stay at home, quarantine and home shuttering is happening in our world. Horse show managers have hit on the idea of virtual shows. Perform the class at home and video it. Post the video. The judge will watch the class videos and determine the placings. I really like this idea. The dress is usually casual. The horse grooming is not as intense. The hours of waiting for your class to start is eliminated. There is no trailer hauling. Those things are all what I dislike about horse…

Fancy April Update 4/9/2020

April 9, 2020Posted inFancy, Flying Change, Missouri Fox Trotter
We are living in the time of the Corona Virus Pandemic. A horse was withdrawn early from Erin Patterson's training since all the horse shows are being cancelled. That gave me a chance to enroll Fancy into training. The goal is for Fancy to be able to do flying lead changes while being ridden. You readers might know my twenty years of flying lead change addiction. With Fancy, flying lead changes (FLC), are very possible. She needs to have an expert rider with feel and balance, who understands FLC. Fancy…

Great Rides and Temper Tantrums

February 28, 2020Posted inFancy, Flying Change
It is embarrassing to write the stories of my Fancy Horsemanship failures. This isn't a fiction book. Tony Vaught is Fancy's farrier. He comes from Florida to take care of Fancy and many others. We Midwest customers refuse to let him be free of us. This particular day, he got done early with his other customers on this day and showed up early. I asked if he would ride Fancy after her shiny new shoes are attached. YES! I was near heart attack happy. Sadly, it was a long cold…

Just Another Day in the Life

January 23, 2020Posted inFancy, Missouri Fox Trotter
Great day Started our eating time at small town cafe where our great waitresses knows our order better than we do and coffee is non-stop.Fabulous vision exam for Terry with Dr. Harper st Vision Quest.  Dr Harper is kind, caring and technical superior diagnosis.Home to feed and water horses.  Sweetie tries to keep the stall clean by pooping in the heated water bucket.  Ugh.  The next water bucket I checked had something odd floating.  I thought, "is that another poop?" I picked it out of the water.  Nope, it was a dead mouse.  I was holding a…

Canter Crazy & Lost Saddle

January 14, 2020Posted inFancy, Flying Change, Missouri Fox Trotter
Well now I've gone and done it. It's now difficult for me to get Fancy to go into a gait. We just want to canter. Fancy canter pop-up all over the place in anticipation of me asking for her to canter. Finally we were able to flat foot walk, but not fox trot. Finally we got a fox trot. Then I asked in my normal way for canter. What the heck, she was upset at my request. We cantered. I tried for lead change. Fancy changed in front. There were…