Boy Lena 050, 2010 AQHA stallion located at Salty Horse Ranch
Born Wednesday morning of April 10 here is a short video of the first 48 hours of the prettiest filly 😍
Her registered name will reflect her incredible pedigree “Flying High Lena 050”
You can see the wine breeding percentages at the end of the video but she is 18.75% Doc Olena 12.5% Doc Bar 7.62% Leo 
She is also the great granddaughter of “Flying X 6” and if you don’t know who he is, you better brush up on your quarter horse history! 😉
Liberty Horse Training
This video starts with Carter starting her pattern that we were filming for competition, and as we have all said, no matter how well the liberty horses trained they will all leave eventually! Boone took it upon himself to run around like a crazy man providing training on getting the callback Moore confirmed, and it was a great training opportunity for Tanner, who had just finished his pattern, but still had no halter on and he had to stand while Cianna kept the other horse away from him. We welcome anybody that would like to try liberty to reach out to us as we have horses that we can give you lessons with, and we would love to help you work with your own!
Longline/ground driving Clinic
This clinic would focus on the basics of long lining and ground driving your horse. There would be options to bring your own horse, use one of ours, that is already trained, or just audit. Let us know if you would be interested!
With this rainy cold weather people tend to say “ahh it’s too cold to ride, it’s too cold to go see my horse..” 😔 this is the perfect weather for extra grooming, practicing in hand/groundwork, or showmanship or Liberty!…. Yes, YOU enjoy riding, but your HORSE enjoys time spent with you NOT RIDING. So spend these months doing things to build your relationship. Don’t just stay home because you can’t ride. Please don’t. That just tells your horse that his only value to you is as a beast of burden. He is more than that. ❤️ this is Carter practicing showmanship with 2 year old Rooster so her gets out of his stall on yucky days when his pasture is too muddy. And he loves just hanging out.
Roan AQHA by Boy Lena 050
What is good to do on a rainy day? Bring the weanlings in and try to get some mud off them and do some tying training and get them used to having someone clean a stall all around them🙂 given that both of these have easy going temperaments there was zero issue 🥰🥰🥰
Flanigan, 4 year old Irish Draught
So remember the majority of the riding and training that Doug and I do is on “remedial” horses, that is to say horses that have already had significant improper physical or emotional training. This is an example of how we bring our own horses along. This is 4.5 year old Flanigan, he is a purebred Irish Draught. He has been “lightly” under saddle for about 18 months. He “works” roughly 3 times per week about 35-45 minutes most in long lines. He rides in either a bosal or a soft rubber bit and has never and never will have any “device” such as side reins, draw reins or Pessoa type system. Mainly he won’t ever need it. His only job right now is to learn balance and straightness and to develop equally all over. Although we offer him contact, we never take contact. You can see a couple of times in the video he offers to carry himself and in that moment he becomes round. But he is a big boy so he can only hold that for just a couple of steps.
You can also see that Doug is riding with a Dressage whip. I think people underestimate how much damage you can do to a young horse by having to over kick it in the sides or to push it places. Instead of kicking with his legs when he feels Flanigan lose momentum Doug uses the whip to tap him in an appropriate place on the hindquarters to remind Flanagan to continue to push from behind. The push doesn’t come from Flanigans sides (so why kick him there?), it comes from his hind limbs so we helped the young horse with his proprioception. That is not to say that Doug did not use his legs at all, he gave him two gentle bumps and got no response indicating that the horse did not understand the assignment. After two gentle bumps he used the whip. The next time he bumped him with his legs Flanigan moved up! With The young horse this process must be repeated many many many times without emotional frustration from a rider.
Because of this type of training, at 4 1/2 years old this horse does everything with the most cal
I know I keep saying I am retiring but I do love starting the babies … that and therapy are my favorites… this guy is coming 3 and this is his first tome ever being saddled… if you do it right it should be as boring as this was… no riding for this guy just saddling and ground driving and sitting on him and a lot of standing!
I love 💕 my professional life… but the shift to taking mostly medical rehab horses is hard… I meet the best horses but they only stay for a few weeks 😢 and my husband and I do a lot of work to make sure they rehab from whatever their physical injury is (eyes, legs, stifle surgery, kissing spines, etc) so that physically they are all good… but we put a lot of time into making sure they are mentally okay as well… Today I ran short on time and taught a lesson while riding my own horse and ponying a rehab horse that needs short walks.
This horse has had to be laid up and away from other horses for a couple of months so he was very happy to just hang out with some “Amish” friends ♥️
I don’t do many videos so please disregard the lack of professionalism and the lack of a good speaking voice! 🤣 But I think you’ll get the point!
