Five years ago I journeyed to Austin, Texas to watch Allen Pogue with his horses. One of the unusual things I saw was a horse sitting down. Allen showed me how he teaches a foal (under a week old) how …

We’ve been busy learning how to use a video-creating computer program. As of noon today we’ve successfully uploaded to our Winsong Farm YouTube channel a video with Kye playing with the big ball and a video of Pax learning how …

Both boys were great fun today. I started with Zelador. I set up a cavaletti on the centerline. This location is quite challenging…hard to get the boys over it. Yesterday I had a cantering Zeloso for quite some time. He …

Saturday we got organized to film the Spanish Walk. We have a new camera that is GREAT in dark conditions and our arena can be DARK.

Our plan was to film each horse doing the Spanish Walk in-hand, at liberty …

Christi and I just finished playing with Zelador and Zeloso. I mentioned to her that I haven’t seen any DVDs with two horses at liberty doing the Spanish Walk. So, we tried to figure out a way to teach this …

The salute is coming along nicely. Zelador has created a salute with the elevated front leg bent at the knee. He looks like a statue. Zeloso hovers his front leg extended. He hasn’t quite figured out that I’d like the …

Monday night Bill and I watched the TV program “House”. There was a very brief segment where House was teaching a preschooler how to play with some toys. He used clicker training and was surprised that it worked.

Tuesday dawned …

Well, who would have thought that such a cold day (hovering around -28) could be so GREAT!!?

I decided to work each horse this morning.

A very frisky Bucephalus was such a sweetie. Even with the crisp air, he was …

I don’t remember when I’ve seen our outdoor thermometer registering this close to minus thirty! Yesterday it was a balmy minus twenty-five and the only horse I played with was Bucephalus. I figured it had to warm up…WRONG! Today, somehow, &h