The photo is a cheater from last week when we were lunging him without tack. I started the week on Monday with a horse shopping day. It was lots of fun, we went to Watson Farms in Priceville where we looked at about thirty, three and four year olds. It’s like letting a kid loose […]

OK, so the progress this week was so disheartening that I couldn’t bring myself to blog about it. He had Monday off, then on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I lunged him without tack to let his withers heal. To keep his interest, I put a pole on the ground at two points on his lunge […]

The day of my last entry, I rode Solo in the afternoon at walk and trot in the arena. I rode him with another horse, however, he was a bit sticky and kept stopping and starting and throwing his head back at me when I leant forward to get off his back. The next day, […]

Solo has again had unscheduled time off. I wrote the previous post on Jan 31st and I did get to ride Solo that afternoon. He was a good boy and I walked and trotted in the arena with a helper on the ground. I was excited to have him ‘going’ again. That night I had […]

After another very pleasant and educational trip to Florida -helping drive down the first shipment of horses, I was inspired to start back with the babies.  Solo however was not quite so inspired and after two pleasant days of walking around the arena on him I asked hi to trot….well!….you would have thought I had […]

It’s really hard to write a blog about your young horse’s training when you haven’t worked your young horse for about three weeks! First it was Christmas and New Year, then I ended up driving a house trailer down to Florida, four of our horses are setting off for Ocala this week. I will be […]

Solo and all the other babies are on a break over Christmas and New Year. Solo who is now FOUR, Hector, the ‘rogue from the track’, who is also four, plus Waldo who is a big grown up five year old now…..time to start teaching everybody how to jump……yippee. They have all had their grain […]

It took most of a week but Solo seems to have given up arguing about going up hills. I must admit, in 30+ years of breaking and schooling horses, he is the first I have ever had who made SUCH a fuss about carrying me up and down hills, you wait till after Christmas when […]

Solo has been in the hardest work yet over the past three days. On Friday we had a foot of snow and the heat had gone from his leg. Because he had had quite a bit of time off, Selena ponied him for twenty minutes in the snow to settle him down. He has this […]

Solo’s knee took quite a few days for the swelling to go down. He is back on turnout again but not yet back to work. He had it iced for 48 hours – 20 minutes icing every few hours. After that it was kept wrapped and some aloe ointment was gently massaged onto the scraped […]