Sunday, May 10, 2009

Sage Goes To Work....

She's here a week, she's 5, she's comfortable with a saddle and a bridle: She goes to work!

Steven looks funny in a helmet.....makes him look about 6 inches taller, but, recalling when I played the role of crash test dummy on a 17.1 hh Belgian Stallion WITH a helmet ( I am chemically blonde....not stupid!) ....I did my best to stifle the giggle...Here's a picture of the handsome bugger: Skidder...When I come back, I wanna be a Belgian mare....Fabio Horse.

Get a soda before you click on the video.....Tianna was filming for us and we didn't want to miss a minute of this groundbreaker....or bonebreaker....or whatever was to come.

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Yee Haw! Totally Uneventful! Steven put some weight on her: nuthin......like:" Get on with it will ya??" So he gets on......We had locked Stinkerbell in his room, and did this in his paddock: treeless. He left the halter on her, and the lead. Walk on, gentle push with his heels. She walks.....we used the corners: turn....Needs a bit of work there. Direct rein/brace rein, outside leg....she walks on.... She is completely and totally compliant....TAKE HER PULSE!

Whomever said that stainless makes a dry mouth has not met Sage.....I had the nailing apron on, full of alfalfa cubes, Rounders, and some peppermint flavored horse treats.....she drools....she drools ALOT!

Covered in mare slobber, I let Steven tell her what he wanted....she was, for the most part, very quick to catch on.....just a couple prompts from the apron wearing treat lady.....um, that would be me. At one point, after a whoa and a dismount and back....she butted the electric fence......Just a little scoot forward, nothing horrible....like I would expect from the domestics, she calms right down, and goes back to work after he remounted....more turns, whoas, a back and some more turns: called it a day! Tianna ( 15) , our spare child, was videoing.....and when I figure out how to view the videos on this computer I will certainly post a bit of it.....It was all very, very impressive.

Steven and Tianna have left for the bowels of the park with Caly and Dazzle......and I am home relaxing, it's Mother's Day and favorite son has rumbled out of the driveway on my motorcycle, and there is peace....at least for a little while.

One more Sam Adams....Life is Good.

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