Finally, the freezing weather is letting up. Winter is very hard for my family. We love the outdoors and riding horses. It has been so cold. It has been below freezing everyday for almost 4 weeks. I figure if it is too cold for us to breathe, it is too cold to work a horse.
We are getting horses shoed and starting to exercise horses. Racheal has 2 colts she is working on. The first one is Mac. I bought him for me as a yearling. I started him as a 2 year old. He bucked the saddle for an entire month. So I sent him to a trainer. The trainer rode him for 3 months and he did really well. However, when we brought him home, he went backwards. We had way too many obligations to keep him going everyday. So Troy rode him for a while. Then we brought him home and had to make a decision. We were going to sell him.
Then Racheal decided she wanted him. She told her dad that she was going to break him. He said if you can ride him, you can have him. So she started riding him. He has never offered to buck with her. 3 weeks after she started riding him, she took him to 4H and rode him in a pen with a lot of other horses and he he was completely fine. She is doing really well with him.
The second one is a horse we picked up cheap. Not normally our type of horse. The horse was gentle enough. We thought Racheal could put 30 - 60 days on her. Then she could sell her and make the difference. She is coming really well.
We pick up Brent's new rope horse this weekend. Then he will have to get busy with practice again. We are also going to bring Sass back. She will be his new 4H project horse this year. Since she was only shown as a colt last year, she needs a lot of work. There is a picture of her at state 4H last year.
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