WHEW

Ok, So Friday I had a beautiful ride on my mare. My mom came out and caught the colt and had a good lesson about leading with him. I got on my mare and rode her, we loped around worked on stopping and backing. I would take her out of sight of the baby and she never took a wrong step. At one point he was screaming his head off and she just kept a level head through it all. I tried yet another saddle pad have one more to try before I can't do anymore. On Saturday I rode her again and again she did wonderful. We worked a lot on transition of gates, maintaining said gate through turns and such. She is a very willing but watches over her rider quite well, when I asked her to canter a circle if she felt me slipping she would drop down and I would just cluck and she would pick it back up. I did something I never thought I would be able to do, I was canter around the pasture with only one hand on the rein and my other hand on my side. I still have to get confidence in turning at a high rate of speed but that will come over time. Every ride has been a great ride so far, with a little bit of a challenge here and there.

Havn't been riding

I haven't made it out to ride again but I am going to tackle that tomorrow. I have to locate a new saddle pad, I have used this one on her for the longest time and since she gave birth it is now causing dry spots. I am more then likely going to have to buy a new pad but I should have an old one for now. We are in the middle of complete barn reconstruction, we are moving the rabbits to a new barn to allow the horses a good barn. This winter we are hoping to have real stalls and not just thrown together ones or ones that flood. We are doing a little at a time and should have it set to go in just a few months. Our horses are not going to know what to do, there used to trees and blankets. Yes, the trees kept them very dry if they used them. But have you ever noticed that if you give them shelter they don't use it. My mothers new mare will not use a shelter unless she is locked in, she has stood out in a rain screaming her head off most of the night getting completely soaked. Every other horse in the pasture was dry in the morning nope not her, so we had to put up an ER stall to get her out of the weather.

Mondays Ride

So I didn't get out there today but I cleared up some old business with my old horse trainer so that was nice. Yesturday was my 3rd ride on her since she foaled the beginning of Aug. and each ride she is starting to test me more and more. For the first time ever she tried to bolt on me into another part of the pasture when we were loping straight lines. After her second failed attempt and her attempt to fool me and try and buck she got to go where she wanted and I worked her solid there. We did circles and spins and pretty much made her move her feet extremely quickly. After a few minutes I took her back the the middle of the pasture and let her rest. I did this two times and by the end of the second round she had dropped her head into a nice western pleasure headset and licking her lips. I then walked her up to where I do the straight line canter work and turned her around and asked her for it. She went right into it keeping her head low and not even offering to step out of the straight line. I made her to 4 straight lines * down and back twice * and then I got off of her and loosened the cinch. She was pretty worked up so I had to keep the foal back for a bit to cool her down, it didn't take long. She is coming along nicely.

I am sorry..

Ok, so I decided to start a blog and never have posted again I won't let this happen anymore. I have been riding my mare and its going great now to get a daily journal.

Lets start here by introducing the horses I will be referring to.....

Dolly Doc Springs AKA Dolly - 8 year old Registered American Quarter Horse Dun Mare. She is my main riding horse. I bought her last year but have been riding her for 2 years. She had only 60 days of training on her but hardly knew much. I have been her sole trainer for the last 2 years and she is doing wonderful. I plan on training her for many different events, our main focus is Gymkhana however.

Docs Town Jester AKA Jester- A 2009 foal by Dolly Doc Springs Register Pending unsure of his color possibly a buckskin colt. When I bought my mare she was in foal and my mom paid what the normal stud fee would cost on my mare. So he is hers and she plans on raising him up to be our heard sire.

Impressive HighDive AKA HighDive - Is between 10 and 13 have to ask my mom, Registered Appaloosa/Arabian Strawberry Roan Gelding. He is my mom's horse but I play around on him from time to time. He was injured by a trainer so is unsound for most riding. We can get on him bareback and play around on him a bit.

Plaudits Roman Star AKA Casey - Is a 5 year old Registered Appaloosa Chestnut with a body blanket. We just bought her in December 2008 as my mom's main riding horse. She was a stall horse so she is slowly learning about pasture life. She has been trained for western, halter and war horse events.

Hannah Bell Lectra AKA Hannah- Is a 2 year old Registered Appaloosa Bay with blanket and spots filly. She is out to pasture tell next year and then we will start her. She is full sister to Lunar Shadow So Fare and is built completely different. We plan to train her more towards English and jumping. This little filly can jump.

Lunar Shadow So Fare AKA Luna- Is a 4 year old Registered Non Characteristic Black Dun Mare. We started her as a 2 year old but the trainer that injured the gelding did more harm then good mentally to this mare. She has been ridden a few times since coming home but threw my mom breaking her arm. We decided to breed her and let her be for a while and let mom heal before restarting her. We plan to send her out to a great friend for a year as a ranch horse soon. Unlike her full sister she is built more western and moves like it to.

Cast A Copper Shadow AKA Shady- A 2009 foal by Lunar Shadow So Fare Register Pending Liver Chestnut Dun filly. We plan to sell her soon as we can't keep them all.

New to the blog world

Well this is my first attempt at blogging, I believe this is a perfect time in my life to start because I am just starting to train a new mare. I grew up riding and for the last 4 years really learning the ends and outs of training and such. I am no expert at it to say the least, I prefer to take a misunderstood or abused horse and turn them around then break out a colt. In 4 years I have rescued and bought misunderstood horses and trained them and resold them to wonderful homes. I put my love of that aside to fellow my other dream and that was to raise American Quarter Horses. I rode at a ranch for a for free, the lady did not ride much so they were all barley broke to ride. I had a blast and she knew I loved Dolly so when the day came to say good bye to all the horses she emailed me and said I will take $500.00 down and $100.00 a month if you come get Dolly this weekend. I told her the price at $4500.00 was still high and she said don't worry I am giving her to you for $2500. She was in foal but I have spent the last year riding her and getting her used to lots of different things. We have bonded beyond words and I could not have asked for a better horse then here.

This blog is to keep you up to date on whats going on in my horse world.