Continued with the rope & flag in her stall, getting her to stand better and not be on top of me. Showed how to put the squeeze halter rope on again, good visual point.

Continued with rope treatment, flag and added twirling the rope and in return get her to soften in her turns, and getting her used to the flag over her face.

We headed straight for the round corral today, worked her with the flag, she had a lot better focus today. Showed the difference between standing still while the flag is moving and moving when the flag is moving. We then started teaching her to change directions while working with the flag and started putting the flag behind me to teach her to not push into me. Then we showed the bare basics of leading and positioning.

We explain the differences about a sensitive horse, then go into flag work, higher and faster, working her back and forth, getting more fluid forward motion. We also continued her leading and positioning on the left side, holding her feet with our hands and started to pat her, which is quite funny!

Put a rope halter on her and showed the best way to halter one and how to tie a rope halter. 1st day in indoor arena continued work with leading and positioning from the left while including how to keep her off of us and being able to pet her as we walk. Also covered moving away from us and backing. Then back to the right side to master coming with us.

We start with a touch of liberty work in her stall, and then trimmed her for the first time. We also flagged Fancy off horseback for the first time. I show how it relates to when I am on the ground.

Our last day of flagging off of Tonto, including starting to teach them to pony, then continued to work on leading and getting her to trot beside us. We also show how we sometimes give grain as we groom and work with the feet.

Stared out with leading on the right then went into lunging. Also showed the humble hobble and how to use it to walk behind on a potentially kicky horse. Introduced a stable sheet to her too.

Stared with some liberty in her stall, showed how to do the squeeze halter again. Sacked her out with her blanket then lunged her with it on in the indoor arena for her first time. Then more sack out with her blanket, including walking over it. Then her first time being tied, then how to help them with liberty in her stall.

Day one part one of working a wild one at the 2010 Western States Wild horse and Burro Expo in Reno Nevada. Kitty worked this horse 3 consecutive days.

Day two part one of working a wild one at the 2010 Western States Wild horse and Burro Expo in Reno Nevada. Kitty worked this horse 3 consecutive days.

Day three part one of working a wild one at the 2010 Western States Wild horse and Burro Expo in Reno Nevada. Kitty worked this horse 3 consecutive days.

Recapping groundwork, including teaching our haunch turns, & then headed for the outdoor arena with lots of scary stuff including a bridge!

More groundwork, showing the squeeze halter again. Checking out a cowhide and learning how to back off the bridge and side pass a log.

Working on backing out and jumping out of the trailer.

Lunging again, with a halter instead, side passing & her first hose down!

Lunging again as well as teaching her to get on the pedestal.

Bareback pad again, teaching our leg cues from the ground & the tilt bridge.

Saddling for a second time, recapping lunging and sacking out with the saddle.

Showing rubber reins and tie her to the hitching post for the first time.

Saddle cold turkey, rubber reins, tying around to her tail & recapping some groundwork.

Mic problems, problems with lunging to the left. Flag on her back.

In the outdoor arena lunging & driving her for the first time, even stepped up on the pedestal!

Showed how to get them started in ponying.

Fancy's second ride, including trotting.

Fancy’ s fourth ride, working on turns at walk.

Turns, including a lope.

Drilled her a little on being quicker and more responsive.

Issue at the lope under rider, tried to take out cameraman!

Worked on turns, getting better.

Today we worked on stops and rollbacks with Fancy before we headed out into the hills. Once in the hills we showed how to get them sacked out to brush and let Fancy do some leading.

With Fancy down we wanted to continue working on the same things so we got Larry and his horse out so we could show someone else working on the same things. We cover our basic turns and start our stops today, mainly at a walk.

Today we were in the outdoor arena again, continuing with the turns and stops. Started getting some decent backs with a bit of speed, not fast mind you but better than slow motion!

Today we picked up the pace to a lope and continued to work on stops and backs.

Today we continued after a day off on our turns, stops and show why we need to drop our body, not brace our feet in our stops.

We continued with putting stuff together and worked on getting it better! Also show Fancy and heading into the vet, she is ok and we will be back on her next week!

Today we are back on Fancy after about a 2-week break with her swollen jaw line. The vet said she should be fine so to go back to working her! We recapped some of our groundwork in her pen to get her focus then saddled her up and headed into the outdoor arena were we lunged her some then rode her. We reminded her of all she had learned and started getting her lined out once again.

I was sick yesterday so we missed working Fancy but today we recapped some turns, did some good rollbacks and stops! Fancy finished with taking a trail ride out with the kids! We will be gone hunting the next few days so we will have to finish up month 4 when we get back! Have a great weekend!

We continued our work on straight lines today, showing how our turns help us achieve straight lines. Fancy did great!

We showed how to use a set of draw reins and the benefits and negatives to using them. Fancy did good!

Today we started out by showing the bit we use then continue with circles and straight stretches. We then introduce the flag to her again and finished with working the flag off of her back, teaching her how to handle pressure from a different position but with pressure she understood.

We started today out with a trail ride to warm up Fancy then we started our first day of collection with shoulder control. I tried to really explain the reasons for collection and how it will help in the long run.

I was sick for the last week so we couldn’t work Fancy until today. We brought her out, warmed her up and got her started again on her collection in the indoor arena.

Today we showed our forehand turn again and did it on her back as well. We continued with collection, speeding up to our trot.

Today we worked on our collection and got Fancy to do a haunch turn from on her back.

We brought Fancy out after a day off and she did really well. She is starting to realize that we are getting ready for her job so she is focusing quicker than she used too. We worked on collection again; counter bends and turns, haunch and forehand turns as well as addressing how to learn to tell which foot is moving when.

We took Fancy into town today to play a skit for the kids at the school! Very fun and showed how all our training made for a fun day and a great time all the way around!

We started right off with our correct bend collection and sped up to a canter. Then showed how to side pass and started our correct reining spins. Great lesson, really starting to come together!

Today a good friend, trainer and showman Mike Horrigan joins us. Mike has trained and shown horses on the National level in both AQHA and APHA shows. He has trained for both pleasure and reining. I asked him to ride Fancy and show you what he has been showing me! I love to learn and this is a great guy to learn from! My granddad died at almost 94 and he said he was still learning! I pray I never think I know so much that I stop learning!

Today we showed how to open a gate!! Josie also rode Fancy around to show off!

Bambi worked on Fancy yesterday so today we showed some work with our Best Vet, talked about the fact that Fancy was growing! We also trimmed up her mane and tail for the winter and talked about rain rot and scratches.

Today we stated that we would be working on Fancy’s collection before we start videoing so we can show you more stuff! We did show how to get the start to a reining stop and back using the fence then went into backing through obstacles. Hope it isn’t too boring but training can be like watching grass grow!

Today we continued with our two tracking along the wall, getting her to start bringing her head toward the way we were traveling. We also worked on our transition from a collected walk into a collected trot.

Today we warmed up with groundwork and collection then went into getting her to move her hip in with her face bent by using the wall then progressed to moving her hip in on the straight stretches. Fancy did great! It is really starting to come together!

We worked on collection, counter bends, hip in and proceeded into the trot. Fancy is doing well but it takes time to teach them to do each of these maneuvers, so be patient!

We covered all the things we have already been working on and sped it up to a canter. The faster we go the harder it is for both the rider and the horse, so have patience!

Today we continued our work with all the things we have taught Fancy and worked on her at the canter again. She was good one way then really fought us on the opposite side. Remember that it takes time to teach the technical stuff and many horses will resist the harder work, we just have to remain solid and consistent so they learn to work with us instead of against us!

Today we find ourselves in Albany, Oregon for a mounted shoot competition. I took Fancy for the exposure and experience. We show lunging her in a new place, the stall, scary places to lead over and how to handle it.

We are back from the shoot, what a great time we had! Great experience for Fancy as well! Today we cover some different things including backing, that will help us in our trail riding, especially for extreme trail.

Today we show blanketing Fancy after I rode her some in the arena but we mainly talk about things to look for in shoeing and why. We show a mare that was poorly shod and what to look for and how to keep you horse sound in the feet.

We are taking Fancy out in the hills before our videos so the videos may get shorter but they will be full of information! Today we continued working on backing through poles, making them closer.

Worked on backing through an “L” including side passing around the “L” too.

Today we had our lesson again and unfortunately we had some mic issues. I am normally loud so you can hear me most of the time. We worked on backing over logs then back onto the bridge!

Today we worked Fancy with a flag and a whip off her back. We also recapped some technicals that we haven’t done in a while and continued with our neck reining work.

Fancy didn’t want to be very soft and responsive today so we worked on some collection and also on her handling the whip. She wanted to toss her head so we put her to work showing her how to handle the pressure of the whip. We also got our first official bow! I think we were all surprised at how easy it was! Doesn’t mean she knows how to do it yet but it is a good start!

Today we used Fancy to flag a green colt! She did really good! Flagging is a great training aid whether it is for the flagged colt or the flagging saddle horse!

Today we spent quite a bit of time with the wild guy. He was much quieter doing the pole work, letting us put the pole all over him on both sides with very little movement. We then continued with the rope and he wasn’t to sure about that! It was a little exciting for a minute but he settled back down and we got him to sniff us several times and he was responding to the pressure of the rope on his neck.

Well our Wild One has a name!!! Buckshot!! His owner got to come see him this weekend and come up with his name! Well Buckshot did great today, even after a few days off. We started as we always do with the bamboo pole and he was fine with it then we used it to move him around. He didn’t like that idea anymore than he did the flag trying to tell him what to do the last time! He did try to kick out but remember that is what they do to keep themselves safe. He wasn’t trying to be bad, he was just trying to tell me to leave him alone. Well that didn’t work so the next plan, going when I asked did. He showed how smart he was and how not afraid he was too! I do like this guy!

Today we continued our work with the halter and flag. Buckshot is definitely not afraid of the flag, which is both good and bad! Good because he shows he isn’t a spooky horse but bad because we can’t use it as a guide if he doesn’t want to move away from it.

We started out in Buckshot’s pen with our rope work then used a rubber curry on him then headed out to the round corral. We had to try several different things before we could finely get Buckshot to move around us like lunging instead of trying to come over the top of us! That is a problem when they don’t fear you, they don’t worry about going through you! He finished really good and I think he is really smart! Almost too smart!

We started out in Buckshot’s pen, then worked on leading him into the round corral a couple of times then took him out into the indoor arena and worked him off of Tonto, our flagging horse. It was a good lesson for Buckshot and something I love to do with all my young horses!

We worked Buckshot from Tonto again and got him to start ponying with us. Then we showed tying up and brushing safely while tied.

Today Buckshot’s owners were able to come see him! We worked him off Tonto, did some ground work then his owners were able to come up and pet him for the first time! Then we turned him loose to play for a while.

Today we really got Buckshot to move with us and yet to stay back were he belongs. He pushed us just enough at one point that Tonto and I went down. We finished up with tying and brushing with a currycomb.

Today we worked Buckshot on the lunge line again. He did really well, we picked up his feet with the rope and introduced him to a blanket. He is sure on his way to being a nice horse!

We worked with Buckshot and his blanket for a bit then ponied him around off Tonto then headed out to the hills! He was excited to say the least but he did great!

We worked on our lunging and picking up feet. Buckshot had a couple of days off so he was feeling pretty frisky! We also worked on our leading and positioning as well as rope treatment and picking up his feet.

Buckshot came out a quieter boy today! 3 days in a row of hard work tend to get a horse to focus! He did great lunging and we tied up his front feet again and he did fantastic! We also worked on him turning with the rope behind his hip.

We worked Buckshot again in the outdoor arena. He wanted to play today instead of work so he got mad at us and acted like a little kid not getting his way! We worked him through it and he finely got over his fit!

I worked Fancy in the outdoor arena on our crisp stops over our pole today as well as side passing off the pole and side passing over a barrel! Also covered getting them ready to ride double and sliding off their hips!

Well the auditions were fun but now we are back to work! We show how to pony a yearling today. He is a stud colt so he had a hard time minding his manners a few times but Fancy was great!! We finish up with some neck reining and still working on her bow.

We worked on our hip ins, and progressed into the lope. Fancy really didn’t like the idea of staying collected as I asked her to canter. She will get better, it just takes time!

We continued with our hip ins and Fancy is getting better, she is starting to understand what is being asked!

Fancy is really starting to get her correct lope offs, we did some really nice ones today! We also worked on our bow and got her to lay down as well!! Fun day!

We worked on our lope offs for the last time for a bit. Showed how Fancy understands what we want and can now give it to us anytime. We also covered how to teach your horse to drag something, Fancy did great!