This week Zeloso improved his free longeing with each outing. He still enjoys reminding me that: “free longeing means travel along the wall, NOT go around you in a circle.”

He is now able to change direction without getting excited …

Friday morning Zelador and I entered the arena. Two pigeons were cooing above us. These two are part of a threesome that was rescued by a friend who loves animals. They were brought to the farm a few years ago …

When we first brought Zelador and Zeloso home as weanlings I made a mental note to contact Christi McQuaker when the boys were ready to learn flying changes. She did a GREAT job with Sherlock over eleven years ago. I …

Allen Pogue has huge bean bags made for horses and his horses sit in them. Before I looked at his website (www.imagineahorse.com) I’d never seen a horse sit and it looks quite strange. He teaches the foals to …

 I received the following email from my friend in Australia. 

“Winnie, you tell me about these things you are teaching the boys… you know when I was a teenager my dad helped a very destitute man named Jim Wilton who …

Philippe Karl and his wife, Bea, are coming HERE (King township, Ontario July 10, 11 and 12)! I can’t believe it!!!

I learned about him a few months ago from a friend in Australia. I already had a copy of …

For our second get-together the boys were very good. That includes Bill. He watched the DVD of the first get-together and refined his work in-hand with Zeloso. For example, in the first get-together he asked Zeloso to back up and …

This past Sunday was our first (of two) “Get-togethers to Chase Away the Winter Blahs”.

We started at 1:00 with Zelador. His first “act” is to the tune of “Rubber Ball”. Zelador and I passed the large horse ball back …

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Last Friday Lindsey came to the arena to “man” the CD player while Zelador and I did our liberty work. We were looking for a good music match. Several of the songs from the 1950’s were O.K. Quite a few …

The morning started with a glance at the thermometer. I was stunned. The thing read: minus thirty. In two days the temperature is supposed to be plus seven with rain. That should ice over the landscape!

I did not work …

Zelador’s been on a tremendous learning streak during this cold weather. It was so cold (the temperature steadily below minus eighteen) that I didn’t ride the boys Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, however we did liberty work. Today it’s really …

Thursday I placed Zelador on the low platform and asked him to “whoa”. I left him with the intention of setting out the four cones with carrots under them in a large rectangle in the arena. I didn’t get very …

Here’s what we started working on with Zelador and Zeloso:

Today was the second day I worked with them on finding a piece of carrot under a twelve inch high orange cone. The tricky part was trying to envision what …

Hi, Here’s Zelador on his fourth day rotating. His favorite side right now (things do change) is to move his hind legs to the right. Although he’s walked a complete circle in both directions, he’s on automatic pilot counter-clockwise.

Happy …