Been pretty “horsey” around here the last couple of days. Brad, a young man from this area who is working in California with a trainer out there, came home for his folks’ 30th anniversary party this past week, so we had a small clinic yesterday. Chance and Hope and Gus got here yesterday morning to spend the weekend, so Chance and I and several neighbors worked with our horse under Brad’s excellent tutelage. We had lots of fun and learned or re-learned some good stuff.
Then today Chance and I worked with the 4 yearlings and I worked a two year old a little and Chance put a ride on a 4 year old that was going pretty good last year, but has been turned out for most of the past year. “Dean” did well and pretty much rode off like a broke horse. Chance rode out and checked the cows while I finished up with my 2 year old.
I bought Dean as a yearling. Snippy’s Cowboy bred horse. He’s always looked rough and is always skinny. I’ve wormed and fed him extra, but I guess he’s just a hard keeper. I even fed him some medicine for ulcers last year, but it didn’t seem to help.
Trimming and training on colts is hard on this old fat man!
Sorry, forgot to take the camera, but Brad’s wife took some pictures yesterday, so eventually I might have some pictures to share.
Now I’m going to relax and maybe go work on the saddle I’m building.
If I wasn’t fighting a bad cold, this maybe wouldn’t have been so hard on me!
Hope your day went well. 🙂
Dennisranch 