I train horses and ride competitively. I currently do not own my own horse but I am working to adjust that after the hurt has passed from my last gelding.
Many horse's moods vary from fair or antsy to bored. Or, they just don't behave. Having spent a few years taking a few different horses to fair, I have tried many different things to keep a calm happy horse. 1. Walk them around. 2. A toy. 3. Company...
rowing up there was only one horse for me. Clementine. The been there done that mare. My dad used to have pictures of me on her when I was a baby. He rode her across the state as long as I could remember. two or three week trips. She never weakened. ...
My second year as part of the Midnight Ryders 4-H group was shaping up great. At the second meeting of the season (or just the one in October), my 4-H leader approached me. "Shaunie, you have a horse to ride next year yet?" she asked. I shook my head...
It was a snowy, cold early morning in December. It was almost Christmas. I had talked a friend of the family's to help me get another horse to compete jumping with (later decided not ever happening), so we drove the large van down to the auction in Hillsdale...
Not many kids think about horses that aren't the "Cream Of The Crop". I went to an auction around my 11th birthday. I had gotten $75 to spend anyway I wanted. I spent all morning going to the bunnies, goats, pigs, and then a horse trailer pulled ...
Having worked with rescues and foals I don't change what I was taught by my father. I will tell you right now I have never hit any horse I worked with. But I am no pushover. I use a lunge whip, bits, and spurs but I never use them directly on the horse...
This is the tale of a special gelding who touched the lives of a lot of people and is sorely missed. It was a cold April morning. I couldn't sleep so I was wide awake for our long hour and a half drive south. I wasn't sure I would find anything at an...
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