A blog about training trail horses.
Posted in Trail Horses on Oct 12th, 2009
Meet Serenade, our 12 year old Thoroughbred mare. I never had much interest in Thoroughbreds before now. I had run a boarding barn and found that the Thoroughbreds that stabled with me were ‘goofy’ and thin skinned. It seemed that they were flighty and always running into something and getting puncture wounds. I realize [...]
Posted in Tennessee Walking Horses on Oct 7th, 2009
What a sweet face and what a beautiful head. We got this 3 year old TWH in about three weeks ago. He is one of our finest. A beautiful red roan that has a personality to match his looks. What a fine ride he is too. Took him out on the trail today and he [...]
Posted in Equine Dentistry on Oct 7th, 2009
Wish I had some good pics to put here, but alas, I don’t. However, I want to stress to you how vitally important it is to take care of your horses mouth. Out of the several horses I have trained this summer, three have had ‘behaviour’ issues that were directly related to their mouths. One [...]
Posted in Tennessee Walking Horses, Trail Horse Training on Oct 7th, 2009
Midnight came to me to learn to pull a carriage. What a treat to teach this horse, she is compliant and very smart. She has never been under harness with an actual cart before as far as I can tell. She was a little wary of the poles the first time I attached them. But [...]
Posted in Tennessee Walking Horses on Oct 7th, 2009
This is my second blog about Woodrow. Woodrow has been undergoing the schooling to be a carriage horse. He has been driven in long reins but never in harness and carriage. Woodrow is a bit afraid of things coming up behind him suddenly or of being touched on the behind. He jumps whenever this happens. [...]
Posted in Tennessee Walking Horses on Oct 7th, 2009
// We recently purchased Woodrow, our 5 year old TWH at an auction in Shelbyville, TN. Love the horse, he is a wonderful ride, real sweet, loves to be petted and does anything you ask. However, it took Woodrow a couple of weeks to settle in at our farm and get over being afraid of [...]
Posted in Trail Horse Training, Trail Horses on Oct 7th, 2009
Confetti was our family pet and trail horse for over a year. She recently was sold to a wonderful family who’s daughter has fallen in love with her. I couldn’t have asked for a better home for this mare. She truly is a special horse and deserves the best home possible. When I first saw [...]
Posted in Trail Horse Training, Trail Horses on Oct 7th, 2009
Confetti came to us last year as a high strung Arabian mare that loved to be groomed and grazed but hated to be saddled and rode. She tried every trick in the book to keep from having to work. Some of her favorite tricks were to step aside quickly as you lifted the saddle on [...]
Posted in Trail Horses on Oct 7th, 2009
Poor little Confetti came to us a year ago. She’s not but 14.1 hands, but what a firecracker she was at the time. Her previous owners had thrown her out in the pasture and just completely ignored her. A TWH trainer was going to take her to the sale, so we bought her. What a beauty [...]
Posted in Trail Horse Training on Oct 7th, 2009
I have been training trail horses going on 17 years now and have always been rather surprised at the ability these animals have shown. Training can be such a rewarding experience for both trainer and student (the horse). I used to be just an instructor and trained only my own personal trail horses and those [...]