Teresa loaned Fancy to me while Cisco is recovering from EPM. I picked her up from Teresa and Junior Osborn. Fancy had nearly 60 day\u2019s training with a Fox Trotter trainer who had problems getting Fancy to move forward when he started her. \u00a0It was at her “colt start” when Fancy became “spur sensitive”.<\/p>\n
Fancy had just completed 30 days training with a trail riding trainer. In her first two weeks with the trail rider trainer, she was ridden in a parade! Boy Howdy!<\/p>\n
She had kicked the husband and two farriers. \u00a0The third farrier just packed up her tools and left when Fancy tried to kick her. \u00a0Fancy had also kicked Junior, the husband. The local trail rider trainer had done well with Fancy. \u00a0She did get front shoes on her. \u00a0No problem for me! \u00a0Teresa had rode her. \u00a0I’m just borrowing Fancy so I have a horse to ride!<\/p>\n
I announced that Junior had just won #1 Boyfriend for a Year for this amazing act of friendship. My friend Hope came and observed the beautiful Fancy. I brought her home and installed her in a stall.<\/p>\n
I was going to ride her the next day. We trailered to the stable where can ride in an indoor arena. Fancy walked down the stable aisle where a beautiful stallion whispered words of rebellion to her. In the arena, the rebellion started. Fancy had no respect for my personal space. She tried to walk on top of me like I did not exist.My body erupted into Italian gestures and then used the lead rope swinging lead rope to get her backed off me. The war started. Fancy had no concept of backing away from me. \u00a0My body was in danger. The rope had to get big. Fancy got big right back. She struck at me with her front hoof and just barely touched my leg. Lordy! She screamed and spurted when the rope made contact on her nose. There was a witness who saw the strike, the heat induced spurting and screaming. This will be a story forever!<\/p>\n
Playing the ground games in the arena didn\u2019t work that day. There was much spurting and screaming when the rope’s metal clasp banged her nose.<\/p>\n
Fancy and I went home. \u00a0I started trying to play the Seven Parelli games to start our relationship. For a few days, I didn\u2019t have a round pen and the leadership was won by Fancy. Fancy dominated me. \u00a0I could not get her to go forward unless I led her forward. \u00a0I was mighty careful of walking behind her.<\/p>\n
There are four horses in the pasture and three run-in stalls in the barn. \u00a0Fancy is the low horse in the herd. \u00a0Heck, she isn’t even in the herd. \u00a0Delta keeps Fancy away from the herd. \u00a0I fed the upper level horses. \u00a0I was going into the pasture with Fancy’s feed bucket while pushing a cart with hay in it. \u00a0I was going to feed Fancy in the round pen so she could eat her feed and hay. \u00a0When the other horses got done with their feed, they would run Fancy away from her feed. \u00a0Fancy saw me and started running at me. \u00a0In the seconds that I had, my brain determined that Fancy was going to run into me to get her feed bucket. \u00a0I whirled the cart around to protect me. \u00a0Fancy whirled her body around and kicked me. \u00a0Her hoof just barely touched my lower leg. \u00a0It didn’t hurt at all. \u00a0Still, I knew that I could have had a broken lower leg. \u00a0I threw the bucket at her in a rage and got out of the pasture. \u00a0Humans lose really big when they lose their temper at the horse. \u00a0I lost really big that day.<\/p>\n
Soon I got my round pen set up and ground play colt start began. Fancy still won, but I was making progress with her backing up and not walking on top of me.. I was very careful of her back legs. \u00a0Cisco came into the round pen with us to show Fancy what I wanted. \u00a0Cisco showed Fancy how to run around the round pen at liberty. \u00a0She already knew that. \u00a0She knew and ignored the signal to slow down and stop. \u00a0After a while, she would turn and face me, but would not come to me. \u00a0I was able to go to her and rub her when she turned to me and stopped.<\/p>\n
Tony Vaught was due in town to take her front shoes off and trim her back legs. They had about a fifteen to twenty minutes horse trainer\/young filly “conversation” before Tony was able to trim the back feet. She did not try to kick Tony which was a huge success. Then I said I wanted to ride her once to assess her as to going to Florida with the Vaughts \u201ccustomizing\u201d her for me. Heck, I\u2019ll go at it myself, the only horse in the world since Sage that I would just get on and ride. \u00a0After all, she was ridable!<\/p>\n
Tony frowned and gathered his thoughts. \u00a0He looked at me and said the fun phrase, \u201cDo you want to have fun with Fancy? \u00a0 You can ride her, but it will not be fun. \u00a0She will be difficult.\u201d \u00a0Tony said those same fun words to me in the past when dealing with Lucky Star. \u00a0Fancy was a whole football field different than Lucky. \u00a0He had never kicked anyone. \u00a0He wasn’t a young filly. \u00a0I decided at that moment Fancy had to go to Florida and be developed by Tony and Jenny Vaught.<\/p>\n
I called Teresa and chatted about Fancy’s ownership. It was a shocking talk. To both our surprise. I bought her. Fancy was Teresa’s dream horse, but she had turned into a farrier nightmare. \u00a0Teresa could not take her on southern Missouri trail rides without shoes on her back feet. \u00a0My husband pledged and paid half her price for my Christmas present. The other half was my Christmas present to myself.<\/p>\n
Note: \u00a0I tell people the early Fancy story and end with the clincher that I bought her. \u00a0Horse people not in my natural horsemanship world think I’m crazy. \u00a0Their expression goes from interested to horrified. \u00a0How could you buy such a mean horse? \u00a0Hell, she isn’t mean. \u00a0She had the wrong start. \u00a0She did not live in a herd when she was a weanling to about a year and a half old. \u00a0She did not have a herd to discipline her. \u00a0She grew up making her own rules and did not have much interaction with her human. \u00a0Teresa had been sick most of the time she had her. \u00a0Much of the horse world uses the philosophy of “kick em to go and pull back to stop”. \u00a0Fancy resisted the go part. \u00a0Her colt start was not a good experience. \u00a0She became “spur resistant”.<\/p>\n
On the subject of horse breeding, we have had much experience with the sire part of her bloodlines and wonderful horses which we developed from birth to World Grand Champion. \u00a0I knew her dam’s bloodlines and the man who spent his life developing wonderful horses from his beloved bloodlines. \u00a0This little filly has great potential. \u00a0She is friendly and thinks. \u00a0With the Parelli inspired natural horsemanship development, her potential will win out and prove her bloodlines!<\/p>\n
Fancy will be going to Florida with the Vaughts and be developed into a horse with buttons that I can have fun while riding. She will be \u201ccustomized\u201d for me.<\/p>\n
She had to be restarted.<\/p>\n
Fancy will save some tricky fun \u201cexperiences\u201d just for me. I love to develop a horse. It is much better for my ongoing health to ride and develop a horse \u201ccustomized\u201d for me by Tony and Jenny Vaught.<\/p>\n
I rode Cisco yesterday. He looks fine running around with no rider. His back right leg drug when I rode him. It\u2019s going to take some time for him to recover.<\/p>\n
So that is the story! Yee Haw!
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