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Marcus Inspires

Every morning I lead Marcus (the yearling Dutch Warmblood colt) into the arena. For the last few weeks I’ve set up the small orange cones made out of rubber, placing a piece of carrot under each of the four cones. …

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Lots on the Go

First of all:

I was thinking…Allen Kalpin is reading the book about Jim Key and he suggested that our autumn fundraiser have The Beautiful Jim Key as its central theme. This morning I thought of creating a classroom for the …

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Practice Makes Progress

This morning:

For the first time in a long time I took Zeloso to the arena before I worked with his brother.

As I was setting up the blocks to create a goal on each side of the arena he …

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I Dream of a Piano

My DREAM of creating a horse-friendly piano is on the brink of happening. I’ve been trying for over eighteen months to figure out how to do this. I’ve learned quite a bit. For one thing, the horses are happy to …

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Just Add Water

Because the Beautiful Jim Key could pick up something in a container with water in it we started that “trick” yesterday. The Beautiful Jim Key picked up a silver dollar. In 1900ish the silver dollar was bigger than the ones …

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Showing Off Their Stuff

Friday, September 2.
At 2:00 Christi McQuaker rode with me. She’d been in Kentucky for three weeks showing her horse. She received my emails about the boys, the jump rope and BIG hula hoop, but hadn’t see them in real …

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Seeking Help with a New Trick

I would love to figure out a way to create three notes for the horses to play. I think I need an engineer or a very innovative person! My PhD Physicist is not cooperating…

The idea is: create something that …