paso fun day at Gracewood

[LynnG]

Here's some pics from today training fun at Gracewood. Flash is a 4 year gelding getting prepared for a rider in about a month...after more sacking out and bomb-proofing..he is well on his way as he is not spooked at anything yet.

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"Flash the Man" got more saddle groundwork and in the roundpen, first time with western saddle.......

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/flash/3_3_6FlashWSaddle1.jpg

Flash just doing his thang!

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A farm guest gives Flash a well-deserved hug!

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More hugs and kisses!

Then I rode Miss Davina, Flash's 5 year half sister by Capuchino....up the drive and back down thru a woods trail...first real ride.... sorry no pics...I was on the darling...just western saddle, halter and nylon reins. geez, that was fun. No boogers there either...alot of looking though.

[Terry Wallace]

Did you raise a NON-DUN Lynn??? :D :shock: ;-)

[Blameitonbrio]

Flash is such a sweet boy! He looks like he is having fun getting all that attention! I know that in all my visits to Gracewood, I always was greeted by this boy early on. He is a real love bug!

[Brigitte]

Flash looks so nice and sweet. Not too mention calm too and that's the best thing!

[LynnG]

Terry, Flash has a red dorsal stripe. He has the same bay mother as Espirita the grulla filly born last year. Flash's sire is Ponderosa Coloso.

Now Davina (Miss Capuchino is her nickname..she's a primadonna) is not a dun at all...dark bay countershaded... with a raccoon face!

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/davina/davinaSaddle1web.jpg
Raccoon face

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/davina/Davina_sack11_1_05.jpg
Davina sacking out last November

http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/davina/davinaLargo7_30_05web.jpg
Summer haircoats........
http://www.geocities.com/lynngallup/gracewoodfarm/images/davina/davinaGraze7_30_05web.jpg

hope next pic I post of her will have me on her riding.... :D

[Barbwire]

Is that bag actually tied to the horse? Interesting. How do you keep them from running through the fence?

[Blameitonbrio]

It looks like Davina is sacking herself out! :lol:

[LynnG]

The plastic feed bag is tied to the bareback pad and meant to hang low around the legs and it makes a rustling nice when moving. Next stage after that is to fill it half way with aluminum cans..now that makes a racket. My horses are thouroughly sacked out with many types of things and confortable with it all ever before a rider gets aboard. Big plastic garbage bags with a few holes punched in to catch the wind tied to the saddle are also favorites to use. I do it all in an enclosed area, so the horse has room to move around and then in the roundpen ..the horse needs to move out as that ahs a different effect on the horse too then just walking. Makes for a sound sane riding horse in the end.

Flash is in the sacking out stage..start with towels...something soft, people's coats, saddle blankets, and go from there. And they need to learn about dragging long lead ropes on the ground when young. That is the only time I have seen a horse go through a fence with a leadrope chasing it wrapping around its legs..I let them experience that in the roundpen as they will go around in circles and can't get too hurt. Most of the saddle sacking out with strange objects is done in the round pen...and the horse is at liberty to move.