Lucky Star Helps Jenny with Natural Horsemanship Training

Lucky Star decided to help Jedi with his natural horsemanship training with Jenny Vaught today.  Neither Lucky Star or Jedi had ever considered someone would ask them to cross over such a big log.  Lucky was certain that Jedi was being asked to cross over the log and not him. But he was willing to help Jedi discuss it. These small logs were not such a big deal.  Lucky Star wanted in on the action.  He thought it was great fun to help Jenny with her rope skills. Lucky Star…

Dazzling

This is Dazzle, a four year old Missouri Fox Trotter.  Dazzle belongs to Jenny.  Jenny picked Dazzle to be her own horse.   We are going to have fun watching her progress.

New World Today

Talk about lives turned upside down and we'll talk about a day at For the Horse Ranch!  Firstly, Lucky Star had his life upturned just a couple of times since his amazing birth survival story.  He did go away for training when he was younger.  That was his first time.  After that, he settled in to be a friendly pasture horse for about two years.  Nothing was required from him.  Suddenly his life was turned around when he got into my trailer and was inserted into a pasture with Velvet, Goldie…

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Grumpy Spots Erased

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…