Collection

Found a GREAT article on collection. It kind of explains why collection is important for western horses, and also how to achieve it. Written by Ted Baker.

http://www.thejudgeschoice.com/LibraryArticles/collection.htm#top

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Tequila's first saddle

After work today we decided to take some pictures of Tequila. He's about to be listed for sale, so we thought it would be a good idea. And he's almost done shedding. He handled his photo shoot well. Then after we got some photos of him, Brandon decided to saddle him for the first time! He's worn a surcingle and blankets, and he's not the type to be spooky and flighty anyway, so I didn't think it would be too big a deal for him. I was right. I was there ready with the camera to catch him freaking out, but no such luck. And I say that like I am disappointed, LOL! Tequila was yawning through the whole process. He sniffed the saddle once or twice, but all in all he was not very concerned about it.













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New colt pics

The babies are growing like weeds! Chico is going through a shy phase and figured out how to 'hide' behind the hay bale and peek over the top of it at you. Shelby has got muscles on top of muscles and looks like a little halter horse right now, but she spends most of her waking hours running circles around her mom. I thought she was practicing to be a barrel horse until I caught her working on her spins... Both of them seem to think that Cheyenne is a lot of fun to chase. Fortunately, she's agile enough to outrun them still, but she won't be for long.

White Deer

Today we took a couple of our young horses to a ranch outside of White Deer. Well, it's really closer to Skellytown. It's a great place to play with young horses. There are gentle rolling hills but enough gullies and washes to make it as interesting as you want. It was really good for these two horses who have never been ridden anywhere but here on our little 12 acre plot.

Roses didn't want to go 'down' anything at first, but by the end of our ride she was almost fearless. And Spot of course was fearless from the get-go, but he's never been afraid of anything. Except maybe missing his dinner. Rein the trusty trail dog went with us. Cowboy started out with us but about 15 minutes in decided that his presence was needed back at the windmill to protect the truck and trailer from the cattle.

Photo shoot

Here's a couple of pictures from an impromptu photo shoot. These new sheets from Pro Equine were too neat to wait for an oppurtunity with prettier background, so my dried out excuse for a pasture had to fill in at short notice. Anyway, this is Roses, AQHA Dont Pass the Roses. She's a granddaughter of Barpasser, so she's western pleasure bred and her super smooth jog shows it. She looks pretty good in that hot pink camo sheet.

And here in the green is Remy, AQHA Remington Whiz, he's a son of Remin Whiz who was just recently sold to Italy. This little grulla colt is my next reiner. I'm really looking forward to starting him later this year. Both his parents are world champions so I have pretty high expectations for him. And of course, he's gorgeous! I'll try to get some more pictures, but his body, everything covered up by the sheet, is a really pretty dove grey color.