Star Velvet continues After I bailed off Velvet, and everyone else, with my urging to do so, had ridden off, I focused on working the pretty, big mare in the round pen. No matter that my arm ached rather uncomfortably, she had to know that bucking didn’t
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When I was young, I often purchased horses to work with, train or retrain then sell to good homes. Star Velvet was just such a horse, but with a difference. She was a tad pricey for me. Still, I was intrigued when I read the ad. In
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Another Horse Tail SPRING ROUTINES Now that the weather is teasing with promises of warmth and green grass, we figured it’s time to get out there and check fence lines. It always amazes me, how a pasture can be in fine shape in the fall, no horses
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Horse Tails When my daughter was about eleven, she joined pony club. I thought it would be fun for her to be a part of something where there were lots of other kids, with their horses, too. She, and by she, I mean I, had decided that
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Thow-ra had two flaws. She was very difficult to catch, and if you went beyond a good canter, you soon found yourself in an all-out gallop, not a hand-gallop either. Her racehorse past would loom large, and she’d lose herself in the sheer glory of speed. I
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