Friday, February 27, 2009
Hey
More entries coming soon, I've been sooo busy, no time to blog. Promise a new entry within the next week.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Just some random horse talk...
Ok, so I know I promised you guys a blog on Saturday, but I've been so busy I haven't gotten around to it. I still haven't had time to get an actual post going, so I figured I would just let you guys have some random updates about what's going on with me, then you will have something to read until I get a post together this week.
So, Sidekick, the Quarab gelding that I did the training post on, is doing alot better. He now respects the bit, is getting very soft, and will hold a headset for a few minutes before I have to ask again. He still has a long way to go, but now he can actually be considered *broke*. We did a for sale video of him on Saturday, but we ended up rushed, and the arena was half-frozen, so it is not even close to a good video as far as showing how good and sweet he is. But, I will post it for you guys to see. Anyways, we are going to try and get a better one this weekend. Sunday, I rode him bareback, and he picked up his leads and loped circles, with his nose tipped to the inside like I asked. I didn't run into one problem with him on Sunday, no nosing out, or bracing. He was soft, he followed my hand as soon as I picked it up and moved it out. I even ended the ride walking and trotting him bridleless, with a rope around his neck. He turned, stopped, and backed with just the rope. So, here is the video, you can see, there is one little part where he is trotting, and he drops his head, and gives his nose, and looks great. Then, of course he raises his head back up, but we will get there... lol I know my riding is horrible in the video, I was riding "rushed" trying to get it over with because we had some things to do.
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=rbbdj8&s=5
Another update with me, while I have my mare at training, I am trying to leg up my older mare to run for this season until I have another horse to run. She is 13, perfectly sound, and a great running horse. I quit running her about 2 years back because I was running other horses, and so she got turned into my mom's trail horse. Now that I'm riding her again, she is doing so great, I think that the two year break really helped her. I hopped on her bareback the other day, and after riding her around, loping, etc. I realized that I hadn't ridden her bareback in 4 years or so, and she used to be my favorite horse to ride bareback. So I decided that on days where I wanted to work her lightly, I'm going to go bareback, because I had sooo much fun the other day.
My filly is going to be 2 in July. I can't believe how time flies. So, I have to start working her and getting a schedule going. I plan on starting out ponying her to try and get her legged up and in shape before she hits two, then ponying and lunging with a saddle at two, and going from there, probably going to get on her and do light work as a two year old, and start asking and teaching a little more when she hits three. We will have to see what she shows potential in, I'm hoping she shows some ability for barrels, but if she doesn't, I'll figure out what to do with her.
Usually, I take in one 'resale' horse at a time, and we put some training and time on them, and then sell them. Over the next couple of months, I'm going to be busy, because I have two resale horses, and picking up a third on Saturday. So I will have 4 personal horses to ride, my filly to work with, and now three more. The life of a horse person... lol
So, you guys tell me what you think about Sidekick, besides it being a pretty horrible video.. lol
So, Sidekick, the Quarab gelding that I did the training post on, is doing alot better. He now respects the bit, is getting very soft, and will hold a headset for a few minutes before I have to ask again. He still has a long way to go, but now he can actually be considered *broke*. We did a for sale video of him on Saturday, but we ended up rushed, and the arena was half-frozen, so it is not even close to a good video as far as showing how good and sweet he is. But, I will post it for you guys to see. Anyways, we are going to try and get a better one this weekend. Sunday, I rode him bareback, and he picked up his leads and loped circles, with his nose tipped to the inside like I asked. I didn't run into one problem with him on Sunday, no nosing out, or bracing. He was soft, he followed my hand as soon as I picked it up and moved it out. I even ended the ride walking and trotting him bridleless, with a rope around his neck. He turned, stopped, and backed with just the rope. So, here is the video, you can see, there is one little part where he is trotting, and he drops his head, and gives his nose, and looks great. Then, of course he raises his head back up, but we will get there... lol I know my riding is horrible in the video, I was riding "rushed" trying to get it over with because we had some things to do.
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=rbbdj8&s=5
Another update with me, while I have my mare at training, I am trying to leg up my older mare to run for this season until I have another horse to run. She is 13, perfectly sound, and a great running horse. I quit running her about 2 years back because I was running other horses, and so she got turned into my mom's trail horse. Now that I'm riding her again, she is doing so great, I think that the two year break really helped her. I hopped on her bareback the other day, and after riding her around, loping, etc. I realized that I hadn't ridden her bareback in 4 years or so, and she used to be my favorite horse to ride bareback. So I decided that on days where I wanted to work her lightly, I'm going to go bareback, because I had sooo much fun the other day.
My filly is going to be 2 in July. I can't believe how time flies. So, I have to start working her and getting a schedule going. I plan on starting out ponying her to try and get her legged up and in shape before she hits two, then ponying and lunging with a saddle at two, and going from there, probably going to get on her and do light work as a two year old, and start asking and teaching a little more when she hits three. We will have to see what she shows potential in, I'm hoping she shows some ability for barrels, but if she doesn't, I'll figure out what to do with her.
Usually, I take in one 'resale' horse at a time, and we put some training and time on them, and then sell them. Over the next couple of months, I'm going to be busy, because I have two resale horses, and picking up a third on Saturday. So I will have 4 personal horses to ride, my filly to work with, and now three more. The life of a horse person... lol
So, you guys tell me what you think about Sidekick, besides it being a pretty horrible video.. lol
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