Here’s what I love about Lucky Star:
- His confidence
- His calmness – which relates to confidence
- His left brain – which is really #1 and #2
- His impulsion – on the low side. I love a horse that would rather stop than bolt. It’s easy to speed a horse up, but if they bolt out of the blue, that makes me a grumpy (terrified) horse woman. Ok, maybe this is all connect to #1, #2, and #3 above.
- He is playful, but not too much. His brain isn’t going 100 mph thinking about the entire world and how he can play with it. His nose doesn’t beat my hand to an object. I get to touch and object without there being a horse nose in the way.
- I’ve seen him go right brained and he freezes. See #4. I love a horse that doesn’t get scared and bolt. Today during our lesson, a neighbor started up a Johnny Popper tractor. For some reason, that bothered him and he went right brained. We played the squeeze game around a barrel to get over it.
- His fox trot – completely natural and he’s got a reach with those front legs. He’s going to be smooth to ride and we will be looking fabulous.
- His canter – same lead with both front and hind legs. Finding the canter on a gaited horse is a happy occasion. Finding a smooth canter is fabulous
- He comes to me and follows me at liberty. That means I can let him loose and he will follow me all over the arena. I can have him round around the run pen and then I can tell him to come to me. He does it. Pretty cool for the short time I’ve had him
- His trust and willingness to try what I want him to do. See #1 etc above.
- I love mares, but having a gelding is a whole lot of darn fun. I get to be the dominant mare most of the time with Lucky Star.
We are playing the Parelli Seven Games at Pine Dell Farm. If you see me there, ask me how he got his name! I love telling his story!