April 2024 archive

This pretty seal bay mare is one of the kindest horses we’ve had the pleasure of getting to know. She’s also DG Griffin’s dam. Minerva, or Ms Kitty as she was known at the Double Devil Wild Horse Corrals , is a 5yo Devil’s Garden Mustang mare standing between 13.3 and 14hh tall. She’s good …

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Right now we might as well call him “Muddy” but that too shall pass. This little palomino cutie is a yearling Mustang gelding, facility born to a Triple B NV mare. Buddy is here for gentling for a client who adopted him through the internet adoption and who wanted to make sure he was prepared …

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Meet the new Mustangs! 2yo dun (roan?) filly from Twin Peaks CA, 3yo palomino mare (with a face that’s chocolate on one side ) from Little Colorado WY, 3yo bay roan mare facility born to a Stewart Creek WY mare, 3yo tri colored pinto mare (NOT a paint, for my fellow color/terminology nerds) facility born …

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I’ve been fortunate enough to be around a lot of horses over the past 30 years and I appreciate how much preferences vary as to who likes what in a horse and why. I determine whether I have a keeper or not by how badly I want to work with them and how far out …

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Yesterday was Lorena’s – 2yo Twin Peaks, CA Mustang filly, adopted – first time in hobbles. It was a non-event. She’s comfortable with leading by a foot, having her feet handled and she’s been trimmed. When I put the hobbles on towards the end of our session and rewarded her for putting up with it, …

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Lacy, my first branded Mustang, first TIP horse, first gaited horse I’ve ever owned, and the best horse I’ve had in my life yet, turned 9 on Sunday. We know that because she was born in holding in Cañon City to a Divide Basin, WY Mustang mare. I’m not the kind to bring my animals …

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There’s always been more than one meaning to the word ‘unpacking’ and our time at the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo certainly has left me with a lot to unpack, more than just training tools, winter boots and clothes. The mares (DG Cedar went instead of Griffin at the last minute), Shepherds and I left for …

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The Shepherds and I made it home midday yesterday from our little adventure. We came back to a winter wonderland and more snow still falling. I got some work done and a ride in before dark, that’s what you see here. In other news, we finally decided who’s going to The Mustang Summit at the …

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I was going to post a video this morning, that was before I got snowed in while having dinner at my friends’ house. We went from no snow before it got dark to 6+in when we looked outside a few hours later, some miles into narrow windy mountain dirt roads that don’t get plowed by …

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I recently read somewhere on social media – and I wish I could remember where – that the best way to fix a bad habit in a horse is to not let it develop on the first place. That’s so simple, yet at the same time so profound. I’ve seen so many horses revert back …

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