Velvet and Susan – Free Style Competition

October 20, 2008Posted inVelvet
See our bridless: Having a Ball, Reining (raining) Horse and dressage demonstration This is Women and Horses Expo - three days of versatility competition.  The third day is free style.  I got 298 points out of 300 for this. Dratted photographer couldn't get the entire show and the sound was bad! oh well

Velvet & Susan – Reserve Women and Horses Expo Versatility Winner

October 15, 2008Posted inVelvet
Velvet and Susan - Versatility Challenge! View us on youtube! “Women and Horses Expo” in Sedalia is what I heard from another horse person. I found the web side and Whoa…a three day Versatility Challenge event! Versatility is my middle name, so I clicked on the link. and it seemed to have Susan and Velvet written all over it. The third day event was particularly interesting…free style! We each had 4 minutes to do our own thing on Sunday. Entertainment, costumes, and your own music was highly encouraged. That is…

Women and Horse Expo – Versatility Three Day Challenge

October 12, 2008Posted inMissouri Fox Trotter, Velvet
I arrived at the Sedalia fair grounds and got Velvet into her new stall home for the weekend.  I met the “Paint Sisters” and their horses. We were chatting and one of them casually mentioned that they had won the Paint World first through fifth placings in dressage, jumping, rail work, etc, with both their horses.  I as bug-eyed at that. She went on to explain that they stopped showing and now into the Extreme Challenge contests. Their horses will swim, jump up or down anything, go anywhere and do…

Nova’s Notebook – Humbling Trailer Loading!

October 11, 2008Posted inNOVA
Yep, that's what horses do! I took Nova on her on her first trail ride today at James A Reed Park.  Hope was kind enough to ride with me.  When we first arrived at the park, a woman came over ..enthralled with Nova's beauty.  Of course I bragged about her just a smidgeon.  For the record, Nova did great on the trail.  Hope and Jazz were good partners to start my trail riding experience with Nova! The woman was still there when we got back..still enthralled. So, I couldn't resist bragging. I have…

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…