As you know I’ve been trying to find a way to teach the horses to play a song. Each of the horses enjoys pulling on the rope and ringing the bells. But I’m finding that the bell ringing isn’t very …
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My name is Ron. I’m one of the Winsong Farm ‘crew’.
Winnie asked me for some details on how I built the teeter-totter.
The materials I used to make a 10ft long by 3ft wide teeter-totter are:
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On day three of the Allen Pogue Clinic Ann Clifford rode Socs for the first time. Allen mentioned on day one that giving the horse a job to do while riding is very helpful (to the horse and the rider!). …
Here are two photos of Allen Pogue working with Bucephalus.
You’ll notice the round pen which is about two and a half feet high. It has an addition placed on top of it that raises the enclosure to over four …
Day Four with Hops I found her in the paddock with Sneakers. This time I was alone, no Ciara to hold Sneakers while I played with Hops. Sneakers stayed close and actually followed Hops after the pony retrieved the carrots …
After Day Two (large pasture, lush grass and hay available) I figured Ciara would have an even more challenging site for Hops and me. I was wondering if she’d plop us into the pond…but, no, we were back in the …
Today (day two with Hops) I packed the blue bucket with the three indestructible cones and added two new items: the canvass bag with cans in it and the ridged ball.
Sunday is Ciara’s day off so I figured …
It seems that everyone I talk to this April has a story about someone coming off a horse (or out of a carriage) and breaking a hip. A neighbor is among the fallen. I visited her at Sunnybrook hospital last …
Allen Pogue (www.imagineahorse.com<http://www.imagineahorse.com/>) will be at Winsong Farm from April 18 (Sunday) till Wednesday the 21st.
Sunday afternoon he arrives from Texas and has an hour or two to meet the horses. They include: Lusitanos, an Appaloosa, an Andalusian, Thoroughbreds, …
Saturday we worked the three horses together for the first time. Ron with Kye, Bill with Zeloso and me with Zelador.
We accidently did the right thing. Each of us worked each horse on different things (I had Zelador free, …
Looking back on all the anticipation I had for the teeter-totter… what a bust! The horses weren’t significantly challenged by it. With each horse I was the first one on the teeter-totter. I walked …
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A three feet wide and ten feet long teeter-totter is in the arena (where the striped pole was). The teeter-totter is mentioned in Linda Tellington-Jones’ book: “The Ultimate Horse Behavior and Training Book”. I figured, “Boy, THIS is going to …
Today Bill worked with Zeloso free-jumping (this might be his second time) and I had Zelador.
You would have enjoyed watching the boys going over the two jumps (one at “A”, the other at “X”). One horse stood on the …
