Practice makes Perfect Practice truly does make perfect. Whether human or animal, repetitive work will see improvements, though just like humans, too much repetition creates boredom in horses, too. Still, handling a horse every day, or as often as possible, sees improvement, especially if activities are changed
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Tom the Contortionist To look at a draft horse, one would assume that they don’t fit through small spaces very well, certainly not with much finesse. Two thousand pounds of giant horse, bred to work like a semi, shouldn’t be able to move between two wires of
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Pat and Tom Owning a Draught or Draft horse, is very different than owning a light horse. They take at least twice the feed, double the dewormer, need taller fences and it costs more to have their hooves done. In short, they’re more horse to care for,
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The Ride that was Kidd Sundance Kidd was always an exciting ride. Though some would tire of a horse that was always asking for more, always prancing, dancing, skipping about, yet I never did. He was always on, and never boring. For all his ‘hot’ behaviour, he
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The problem with Kelly As impressive as Kelly was, no matter how beautiful, it was clearly obvious that he wouldn’t work with our family. After much discussion, hubby called up Ernie, the horseman he’d purchased the Belgians from, and Ernie offered to trade Kelly for a different
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