major reining lesson 11/17/10

My reining lesson with Major. 

Kaishi 11/11/10

So we decided to rename Kaishi from "Khemos Bask UMV Gates" to "KhamiKhashi". Way cooler. :P

Heres a video of me cantering him for the first time...

Basil 11/11/10

I sat on Basil today for the fist time. He was very good and wasn't nervous at all.

Kaishi.

Kaishi is the most calm horse I've ever worked with. if you didnt know any better you would swear he's 30 instead of 3...

10/10/10

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10/22/10

10/22/10

Basil 10/22/10

Basil with the saddle :)

Bailey 10/21/10

video to come ....

Wish 10/21/10

Major 10/21/10

Pstars 10/21/10

Pstars About 10/20/10

Pstars is my 10 year old Arabian. We believe he had EPSM so its hard for him to build muscle and to move his body in the way that I want him to. This is the first day of me asking him to do allot of bending.

Cowboy 10/19/10

Cowboy is a 5 year old Half Arab. My aunt owns him. He is here for a month or so for me to ride. Hes Pstars' nephew and Klark's grand nephew. :)

Major Khemotion 10/19/10

Major is a 6 year old arab. This is just us doing some circle work and moving off leg

Bailey 10/19/10

More Bailey ...

Bailey being "naughty"



Bailey 10/18/10

Monday I worked on trotting off of leg and crossing over in front. It was hard for Bailey to trot forward off of leg because I'm always doing collected work with him and when you touch him with leg his first reaction is to lope.

part 1

part 2

BaileySon 10/17/10

I've always wanted to rein Bailey. So I went on YouTube and started watching videos on sliding stops and spins. Yesterday I just rode him and played around with stops as I would normally.

Basil 10/17/10

Today was Basil's first day wearing a bit. And the third day I put a surcingle on him. He accepted both right away. He was a little nervous with the flag though.. Some new pictures -

Basil - Two Month Trial.

Basil is a 4 year old POA. He is here on a two month trial. So far I have just been doing some ground work with him. He seems to be coming around quickly, and he learns fast.

Captain- A short history and what he is currently doing

Captain is a odd horse. He is very sweet but he is also very nervous. He can be ridden but has recently been displaying some behaviours that are unwanted. He came from a woman who had him alone in her back yard. He was well cared for and she had some groundwork training put on him. From what she told us he came from out west and had been ridden but she didn't know much more than that. It was clear he had some abuse from the way he reacted to people. He wanted to get attention but was very nervous of it. When we got him to the farm I started riding him and he was fine. I could move him around with leg and he went on the bit. But he started having some issues with rearing and I decided we needed to take more time with ground work before I got back on.
So I decided to put him into 6 months of consistent training. We are on week three of Training...

-Week one Captain was Tacked up and Bited in the round pen. I bited him for about a hour each side and a hour straight back. And then lunged for about 20 minuets with side reins. He reared a few times when being lunged but nothing major.

-Week two Captain wore a surcingle with two empty laundry detergent bottles hanging off each side. When I first put them on he would tear around the round pen but after a few days he realized he didn't have to run.

-Week three I have been ground driving Captain. The first day he was much better than I expected. The second day the rearing came out again but he worked through it without it being to traumatic on either of us.
 And the third day (today) he was great.


Here is a short clip from day one.

10/11/10

Here is a short clip from day two.

10/12/10

*This is just a clip, the whole training sessions was about a 1/2 hour long. I did check him to make sure he was not hurt before we continued

And a short clip from day three.

 10/13/10

Lindsey 10/13/10

I went to ride Lindsey today for the first time in a couple weeks. I have to work around Petes schedule. He thinks Lindsey is usless. Here are some new pictures of her :)

Seven more horses at the farm

We also have seven other horses at the farm...

Tony is a 20ish year old pony. I bought him 4 years ago for a lesson horse.

August 2010

Sunny is a 5 year old Pony. She is owned by Grace. she got her in February as her first project pony. I now use her in my lesson program.

August 2010

Della is a 17 year old Arabian Mare. She is owned by Jean. I also use her in my lesson program.

April 2010

Blue is a 17 year old Trottingbred. He is My moms pony. He came with Bailey as his pulling partner. and we have owned him sense 2001

June 2010

Tonka is a 30+ year old pony. He was a rescue we got about 7 years ago. He is retired.

July 2009

Iroc is a 20+ year old pony. He was my very first pony. I used him in lessons and now he is retired

April 2010

Molly is a 6 year old pony. She is another rescue that i was hoping would come around and be okay for the lesson program. But something horrible must have happened in Molly's life because she cannot get over some of her issues. She is living her life out with Iroc as a "guard pony"

April 2009

Three Off Site Training Horses

As of right now I have three off site training horses...

Lindsey- 4 year old PMU. I started working with her in July 09. She needed ground manners and I saddle broke her. Now I ride her a  few times a week.

June 2010

Shaya - 2 year old orphaned foal. I started with her in the fall of 09. She needed ground manners and will come to the farm next spring for saddle breaking.

June 2010

Smokey- 7 year old pony. I've been working with him sense June 2010. I ride him a couple days a week. The goal is to get him kid safe and into some shows next summer.

June 2010