Beauty Trotting

A week or so ago my younger sis got this video of Beauty trotting. Isn't she smooth? :)

Video of Traveler and Jiggers Playing

Meet two of the 2008 foals; Traveler and Jiggers!

Traveler was a sociable and playful buckskin Saddlebred colt. His dam was Spirit, the buckskin field horse.

Jiggers was a little bay colt with a spunky attitude. I'm pretty sure he's Arabian.

I recorded a few videos of the foals during one of my bicycle trips to the stables in 2008 (yikes, I was young then). Traveler and Jiggers rear up, kick, and chase each other in the video. If you have a few minutes to spare, watch it!

Lungeline Jumping the Minis

I cannot remember if I already mentioned it or not, but when it was still nice and warm we lunged the minis. Over elevated cavaletti poles. It was fun!

The basic setup was easy, but it did require a lot of running (for both horse and handler) and the horses wearing either wraps or boots to protect their legs. Generally when lunging the handler should stay in one spot, but for this it was pretty essential to move around or the horses would be lazy and avoid the jumps.

When I recorded this (and that's my awesome horsey friend doing all the hard work!) Angel was on the lungeline, but sometimes during the session we would free-lunge them both. Free-lunging is lunging them without using a lungeline. :)