Ivy League!
Ivy has being gaining confidence and is maturing so nicely. What an amazing mare!!
Ivy and the used-to-be scary obstacles!
Gypsy building trust and confidence with humans.
Loki
Loki. 47 days in our colt program. Formerly she was abused, extremely reactive, hard to catch, untrusting of humans and had never been saddled.
Preacher
Our rehab and restart project! Preacher is my personal gelding. We've had him for about a month now. He came to us super flighty and very hard to catch.I was told he would violently pull back and flip over backwards during saddling to a point where he had to be hobbled in order to be saddled. It sounds like he had a very rough start.
He was turned out when he was 7 and has been handled for farrier and vetting only since.
I've been working hard on building a relationship with him.
We are privileged to have him with us. He truly brings me so much joy. He has come such a long ways in a short time. ❤️
Addie-Week 3 starting under saddle
Miss Addie is at the end of her 3rd week in our colt starting program. She is building confidence at her pace and doing so well! She wants to please and works very hard.
Loki at the end of her first 30 days in our colt starting program! 🥰
Addie, 10 days since drop off
From flighty and major lack of confidence to her first ride. She has made fantastic progress and I am extremely proud of her! We're a little stiff on the right side so we're going to work on confidence on that side and getting more supple. I can't be happier for this beautiful gal!
Loki Day 12
Loki has been with us for 12 days. Here is her 4th ride! ❤️
#horsetraining #horsetrainer #coltstarting
Addie Trailer Loading
Addie's owner has had a terrible time trying to get her to load. She has had a traumatic trailering experience and was extremely scared of loading, she even flipped over multiple times before coming to us.
Here is after our confidence building round pen session and 20 minutes of trailer work. She is doing fabulous! From not wanting to get near the trailer, to hopping right in.
This cute little mare came in a week ago. Shes been lightly handled and was quite spooky!
Here's day 7 and her first ride.
Kiki, she's such a doll. What a pleasure to start under saddle.
Dusty out getting some wet saddle blankets.
Paisley is such a high anxiety mare that prefers to rear as her escape. It's like riding a blown our barrel horse. She's learning that being rode as well as being in the arena is a positive experience. Nothing she should fear. We ended our session with a nice walk vs her rearing, stomping and just wanting to bolt at the beginning.
Kiki has reached the end of her first 30 days. This girl was very reactive and lacked so much confidence. When she arrived she was extremely uncomfortable with anyone behind her and above her. She would jump at her own shadow, she has calmed down so much and really opened up!
When your 5 year old is the only one around to record. Not the best video, very short, but here's a snip from my morning ride with Whizz today!
Majesty! Leaps and bounds. The trust this little filly has in us is amazing.
I'm so proud of her ❤️
Meet Majesty. She is a 2 year old Arabian X filly in our program.
This adorable little lady is friendly and curious but arrived lacking in manners and has zero exposure to anything outside of the small pen she was raised in.
This is day 5 of training.
Penny today! She’s gone from scared and bucking to gaining confidence and moving out! We did have a minor hiccup that you can see but kept her moving and all was well! Great job Penny!
Hollywood went from being ran into a trailer to now hoping right in. I did tie him and close the trailer door as well. He stood like a perfect gentleman! We like easy loaders!