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06/24/2024

Well now that the last horse has left. I have decided to stop training after lots of thought!
I’m getting burnt out for different reasons. It’s been a fun 6 years of taking in client horses but I’m ready to focus on my own!
Now with that being said I will still help you with a horse if needed but I don’t have the time to put x amount of days on them, maybe a week or two but we’d have to discuss that. I’m working on getting the arena fixed and back to being good dirt and then people can haul over.
Life is changing and I need to focus on my own young prospects.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me this far and for all the wonderful clients I have had! I enjoyed working with each and every horse but it’s time for a break.
In the future I might take some on again and if I do I will make a post but it won’t be for at least over a year.

05/31/2024

Horses had a pedicure day yesterday!
Brought horses home as well but three will be heading to a friends tonight to eat down some pasture, Bandit starts training this weekend and I’m excited to see how he does!
Smokey was a queen for her trimming.
Both ponies got rode. Finally able to get on piper and walk him around without blowing up but he still feels like he will blow at any chance he can. Danny had a short ride and did good as usual.
Gigi owner came out and rode her since I was behind from farrier and had a good ride on her!
Here’s to a great summer of riding and training!
Now that times opening up for my own young ones

05/29/2024

Update time since life has been so busy!

Gigi came to get a refresher on western and lope worked on, she’s a really cool mare and I’m very happy to be able to work with her

Also just added this pretty grey mare to the herd today who was a recip mare at a friends barn that came from Utah originally!
Watched her move and decided to take the chance with her! Don’t know how long it’s been since she’s been rode but she rode off great last night and she has some fancy buttons on her! Very pleased with how she went to work so nicely

05/10/2024

Danny boy sure is coming around again😍 this little pony is going to be one heck of a ride with consistency!
Saw some of pony attitude last night but then went back to work and rode with a couple of other horses and did good

03/07/2024

Took Rocky for his first trail ride ever and did it solo! Gun shots and 40+ deer running through the woods never phased him!
Also trotted a nice pattern afterwards

03/07/2024

Rocky is doing so good. Finally rode outside for the second time(his second time ever being rode outside) and like expected he just works!
Moving shoulders and hips, figure 8’s and roll backs and lot of circles! Got new videos yesterday of him now just need to get new pictures and this boy will be posted again this weekend!

03/07/2024

Oakley is here for a tune up and show experience and just getting out more and buddy sourness

Don’t mind the barrels the goats decide to run through there and knocked everything over🤦🏽‍♀️

03/05/2024

Got on Bandit for the first time today!
He’s gonna be a fun one🤩

03/02/2024

Early morning rides hit differently🥰
Yall aren’t gonna want to miss out on this boy when he’s posted again in a few weeks!
He is really coming along and we are starting on the barrel pattern!!

Axl (haven’t gotten any new pictures) is starting to gain more confidence under saddle and be more independent when riding with other horses!

02/27/2024

Hey y’all!
Training for 2024 will be limited with me having two of my own to get started but I will have time for a few horses this summer/fall!
Availability:
March-Full
April- Full
May-1
June-2
July-2
August-2
September-2
October-2
November-2
December-2
With that being said I have raised prices for this year to $600
If you really need a horse tuned up and or showed and I am full I have the opportunity to keep horses at Mustang Manor but owner will be responsible for board ($400)and training($600) I move all client horses to Mustang Manor in the winter so keep that in mind as well if you are wanting something broke out or rode this winter, depends on weather when I will move them!
I am filling up quickly so do not hesitate to contact me about training!
I will be hauling to lots of smaller shows this year if you need something exposed and hauled. We typically go trail riding at least once a week also and I will take client horses for those if requested!
Happy Tuesday!

02/22/2024

Some of the latest things that have been happening..
Axl is doing very well and becoming more confident under saddle
Rocky(not pictured) is about to be started on the pattern after few more rides of just moving body parts! And will be posted again mid next month
I ended up with a free three year old gelding and he is going taking everything so nicely and I have yet to find anything that actually scares him.
I will be posting availability later today for training this year as I am starting to become very busy!
Again thank you to all my clients returning and new🫶🏽

02/13/2024

Axl🥰
Here for 60 days for starting under saddle and might end up on the trailer some this summer to get exposed to everything

01/12/2024

Finally making some progress in different spots😊
This is the life of dealing with the difficult ones. Jema has been here since April and it has been an up and down road of all sorts of things but I think we’re on the right path with her and continuing to try different techniques that work for her🤞🏽 I’ve really enjoyed the challenges we face and everything we have seen.
1. It’s giving me more knowledge on how to work through something’s
2. No ones knows everything but horses like this can tell you if you have the correct tools
3. Horses like this one aren’t for the weak, majority of people would have gave up on her by now but she has given no real reason to give up on her yet in my opinion or her owners.
We will continue to work with her and continue to get that 1% of progress daily😌

12/21/2023

Jema is wondering why were line driving again😂
It is never a bad thing to go back to basics and start over. A lot of horses need a refresher when young. I love ground work and all mine continue to do ground work no matter how old they are because it keeps them fresh on basics and their mind thinking.
This one really benefits from starting from the ground up due to a prior accident that we thought we could work past and could not due to how she was handling everything mentally but this is why I believe in ground work and why when I get on a horse for their first ride I expect them to respond to pressure and mouth cues and then add in leg cues and such after the first two or couple rides. This mare shows potential but needed a fresh start to get back to work

12/20/2023

Sometimes you just need to start over on a horses training after certain events!
Jema is starting back up nicely after a few months off! Hopefully this girl will be ready to ride again in about a month but we’re in no rush!

12/08/2023

Just sitting here thinking…
Listen to your horse, if you learn to listen to them you will know when something is off faster. I don’t post a lot of my personal horses on this page. But Kimber ran hard and honest all summer, come September something was off, refusing to go in, not wanting to go to the second barrel. The first time this happened instantly had her adjusted. Getting her adjusted every other week if not every week on top of 1-3 magnawave treatments a week, it worked for a while and then it started back up, went to her teeth, teeth needed done nothing out of the ordinary but enough for her to stop doing what she enjoyed, everything was good and Kimber was running her usual times again, come November she did it once more and that’s when I had had enough of just chiro and magnawave cause it wasn’t helping anymore. Took her to the vet and got her hocks and one knee injected, she rode better but something was still not 100% so she’s on a break till next month.
I say all this and write this out because a lot of people will instantly say it’s behavioral or starting to become sour but that’s not always the case. Kimber loves her job and even when she was off but would go to the second barrel she’d still fire hard. But because of her hock having arthritis and was causing her so much pain he was refusing. I’m definitely someone who will try to make a horse feel better before going to the vet because let’s be honest just walking into the vet is expensive but I knew where to start because of how she was acting. And yes it helped for a little bit, but it wasn’t the answer and after two months of battling it and trying to figure out what kept making her refuse one day but not the other was the reason we went to the vet. Now I walked in there with a bunch of problems in my mind that it could be, luckily it turned out to just be injections. But these athletes work so hard for us and deserve the absolute best care to perform when we ask them to.
It has not been easy owning this mare and I never thought she would be the barrel/flag horse she is today but I listened to her and let her do what her heart desires. Yes theirs set backs but it’s going to happen with any horse, whether it be injury, needs a mental break, or something as simple as needing injections.
I’m ready to have my girl back in the arena but she deserves this break even if I don’t know who is more upset about it, me or her with how she keeps looking at the saddles in the trailer when I take her somewhere and don’t saddle her up as I saddle up other horses.
Listen to your horse

11/23/2023

Rocky’s first ride🤍

11/21/2023

Rocky came to me this week under consignment. We are line driving and learning pressure and hopefully will be on him this weekend. He will be posted around 20-30 days of riding. California Cash 37 is his dad.
This boy is a quick learner and takes everything in stride❤️

10/03/2023

Sometimes I don’t think people realize horses really do pay attention to what you teach them. I taught Big Momma how to ground tie back in 20/21 and just got her back and last night just dropped her lead rope and walked away from her to grab her bridle and this mare never moved!

When you teach horse something and reward them for doing it well they remember and they remember when it’s time to relax and when it’s time to work
Big Momma was a lot like Ruby when I first started her and was skiddish and didn’t know what was right from wrong.

You really don’t see that big of a result when your constantly doing it but for me ask her to ground tie for probably the first time in 2 years and she just did it even with other horses being rode and goat’s running around and gun shots and trees being cut down all around her and she never moved, that’s when you really see the result that all your hard work payed off.

Majority of horses can sit for a while and still remember what you taught them and yes some might be spicy when you first get them out.

This is exactly why I love to take on these problem horses because it is so rewarding when you start seeing such big results in them and getting their trust🤍

Happy Tuesday everyone☺️

09/03/2023

Not only did Ruby have her first trail ride but I also took her out on our night ride and she did fantastic and we even went over a bridge!!

09/02/2023

Ruby first trail ride! She did fantastic and did everything that was asked of her to do❤️

09/02/2023

What a major step this is for Ruby🥰 sitting out here while she’s laying down. When she came to me just over two months ago I wouldn’t have thought about this. She’s really gaining trust in everyone. Had Tyler and I both out with her and just layed their and let us love on her and then when she got up followed me back up to the gate🤍
She also gets to go to Fort Custer for the rest of the weekend and trail ride with some good friends

08/20/2023

Late morning ride to beat some of the heat
Ruby did fantastic for Tyler rode her in a halter just cause that’s what she’s most comfortable in still and no one has rode her but me. So proud of how far this mare has come! Didn’t even freak out about the sprayer that flew past us on the road.
Jema had her first road ride and will get better with time and hopefully mailboxes and random white lines on the road “won’t try to her” anymore🤣
Proud of both of these mares today.
Rubys owners coming later tonight to ride her as well☺️
Thank you Ellana and Jake for joining in on the ride and Ellana for riding Ty and getting him out of the pasture❤️

08/19/2023

Never be scared to try something new😍
I learned how to rope at a really young age and then got out of it because as a girl you couldn’t compete back then. I have now decided that I want to do it again since girls can compete now.
Learning new techniques is the hardest thing cause I wasn’t taught some of the things I need to do the correct way.
This is all new to Kimber but she started to understand how to track the dumby last night and doesn’t care about the rope. We’re going to learn all this together but Im grateful for a mare that takes everything in and wants to please and will do anything I ask her to do❤️

08/18/2023

It’s the nights walking around the back field after I ride I enjoy❤️

08/16/2023

Ruby had her first outing off the property😍
Not a single thing phased her and was in the back, middle and leader! Thankful for great friends to ride with and to take horses out that aren’t experienced to any of it🤍

08/14/2023

Carrot came to me to be restarted but lameness has stopped that and owner has decided she would be better off to be a pasture pet. She is a 7yr old OTTB.
❗️❗️PASTURE PET ONLY❗️❗️
She does best when sedated for the farrier.
She is utd on all vaccines, coggins, teeth float and farrier. She has history of laminitis which we monitor with yearly X-rays. Her pain is managed with the once daily equioxx. She is registered with the Jockey club and we have her papers
I think she has some stifle issues going on as well but not 100% on that. She is going back home tomorrow unless someone in or close to Vicksburg is interested in her!
Please message Hannah Zehr with an questions! I have not had her more than a week to be able to answer questions

08/04/2023

Almost got her to break into a canter last night but she showed she wasn’t ready but she’s close!
For a horse that’s getting broke out in a halter (that will change but she doesn’t quite trust me enough yet for putting the bit in her mouth but we’re slowly getting their) Ruby has a nice set of breaks and has already learned to be light in the face when backing and gives to pressure🤍
She wasn’t happy being the first one to leave the trailer last night and go back to her pasture😂 she’s starting to like all the attention though

08/03/2023

Ruby is really starting to get more confident🤩
Trotted a whole lot more and just kept going!
Lots of distractions with riding with another unbroke horse and had someone cantering all around her and all of us talking and of course the dogs wanting to walk next to me and was not phased at all🤍

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Took Rocky for his first trail ride ever and did it solo! Gun shots and 40+ deer running through the woods never phased him! Also trotted a nice pattern afterwards

Jema

Jema is wondering why were line driving again😂 It is never a bad thing to go back to basics and start over. A lot of horses need a refresher when young. I love ground work and all mine continue to do ground work no matter how old they are because it keeps them fresh on basics and their mind thinking. This one really benefits from starting from the ground up due to a prior accident that we thought we could work past and could not due to how she was handling everything mentally but this is why I believe in ground work and why when I get on a horse for their first ride I expect them to respond to pressure and mouth cues and then add in leg cues and such after the first two or couple rides. This mare shows potential but needed a fresh start to get back to work

Never be scared to try something new😍 I learned how to rope at a really young age and then got out of it because as a girl you couldn’t compete back then. I have now decided that I want to do it again since girls can compete now. Learning new techniques is the hardest thing cause I wasn’t taught some of the things I need to do the correct way. This is all new to Kimber but she started to understand how to track the dumby last night and doesn’t care about the rope. We’re going to learn all this together but Im grateful for a mare that takes everything in and wants to please and will do anything I ask her to do❤️

It’s the nights walking around the back field after I ride I enjoy❤️

Ruby is really starting to get more confident🤩 Trotted a whole lot more and just kept going! Lots of distractions with riding with another unbroke horse and had someone cantering all around her and all of us talking and of course the dogs wanting to walk next to me and was not phased at all🤍

Ride #2 on Ruby last night🤍 this mare has really been showing trust in my all week and is making big leaps now! When I first got her it’d take me about 10-15 minutes to catch her, now she’s starting to walk up to me! Working with a horse that doesn’t know how to trust fully in someone is harder because you have to get them to trust you before you do anything. Lots of ground work and showing them they are okay. Understanding their boundaries and how to get in them, knowing if you made a wrong move and backing up before you startle them to much. I’m so happy with how far she has come, yes it’s taken longer to get her here but everything we did led to this, to have the first rides be smooth and willing and a good experience for her🤍 *I do not own the rights to this song**

Ruby came to me to be started under saddle and she’s already made huge progress! (This is video is over a week old but I am horrible at getting videos when it’s just me out there)