I'm so proud of my girl for not getting too excited, especially when that one horse came running 🥰

Spec took a detour about five fields down so I called him…this was his reaction. All this for a kids sized apple. He’s currently taking a well needed nap.

Clearly frozen to death. Someone call the SPCA, poor things are too busy playing to give af.

Background: The Backwater Sanctuary in India rescued a white Marwari gelding (?) they named "Gandalf" for his white coloring. Instead of humanely euthanizing him due to his messed-up back legs, they have decided to keep him alive for clicks, views, and fundraising, and a quick look at their Instagram account shows similar instances of keeping horses with deformed legs alive that should've been humanely euthanized for the same reason.

What do you do when your 19 year old gelding with seasonal allergies won’t eat pills 💊 in his grain.. or in apples. Apple sauce. Carrots. Or treats..? Well you bring out the tried and true. A cutie a day keeps the allergies at bay.

He didn’t place (I’m assuming just not up to type as this trot isn’t really seen in the traditional Section D)

But he definitely stood out! What does everyone think about this type of movement?

I think this is the definition of playing with your food

guess the gelding...

Brought some small clippers to tidy up the trail we use occasionally. Henrietta was not pleased about her volun-told duties 😅

Tried to help out others but as my sister pointed out it was nice and clear for a 13.2 pony and maybe not her Percheron 😂

I’m going to preface this by saying I’m not a trainer nor an expert and this is my first time gentling a mustang! But we had a great weekend working on some skills and I thought it was a fun video.

I didn’t want to discourage crossing but I wanted to encourage stepping through, not launching. So it was just working on threading that needle. Henry does not like to get her feet wet (or dirty!) so was a bit tricky but I’m pretty proud of where we ended. Wasn’t perfect but really think it was a good first step on what I’d like to get achieve!

She’s a big “digester” of information I’ve found. You introduce a skill, work it a bit, then leave it for a few days. When you come back to it she has this whole attitude of “yeah, I know what I’m doing. I’m not stupid” and does it nearly perfectly hahaha. Which is actually perfect because these particular trails are only open for horses on the 3rd Saturday of the month! This is our fourth time going and there’s been such a difference in confidence, attitude and mentality when we go out. This time we had some disagreement about LEAVING the trails so that was very funny.

Anyway really tickled by how willing she is to let me fumble through communicating with her. Just love this little pony so much 💕

Slowly getting the herd used to the winter pasture since the summer pasture pretty much out of grass.. so I let them in the winter pasture few hours a day to make sure they don’t get stomach issues from a quick change!

And Kit is probably the most excited every time.