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Kye Learns to Bow

Kye is thoroughly enjoying his liberty/trick time in the arena. In fact, if I’m a bit slow (according to him) at getting him out of his stall and up to the arena, he whinnies to me.

Kye is pushing the …

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Pax and the Ringing Bells

Have to tell you about Pax today… and yesterday.

We’ll start with yesterday. I was leading him up the driveway to the arena and he was so very slow! I was sweating by the time I got him up there… …

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The Bells are a Ringing

Bill attached the new system for ringing the bells on an arena support beam. There are three eye-bolts that the knotted rope passes through. I gave the part of the rope that extends into the arena a pull and nothing …

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Zelador and the Bells

You know your horse is clever when…

Today I did some liberty/tricks with Zelador in the arena. I called him over to the piece of wood Bill put up for ringing the bells. The wood is hinged at the bottom …

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Finally Some Good Footage

FINALLY we got some decent footage of Z and Z!!!!

I decided that no matter how animated and exuberant Zeloso might be, I was NOT going to work him before filming. (O.K. so I’m a slow learner… Also, I was …

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More Filming

The warm weather allowed me to attempt a second filming of Z and Z at liberty. Our next opportunity was the day Christi McQuaker came to help with the boys. She rode Zeloso for about twenty minutes while I rode …

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Nose to Nose

When I brought the horses in from the paddocks this afternoon Ron, the farrier, was shoeing Blue. It turned out that my timing was perfect. The aisle was clear for me to lead in each of the horses. Ron was …

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Filming the Zs

The DVD of the October Get-Together doesn’t have the footage I want of the boys together. So, yesterday I tried to film Zelador and Zeloso at liberty.

Knowing that Zeloso is “full of it” I took him up to the …