Horses, Equine

If you would like to meet an old hand with horses, you have come to the right place. My experience of forty plus years speaks for itself. I have a Certificate from our Local Extention Office from OSU for my 11 years of being a 4-H Advisor in Marion County. My 4-H kids were one of the first Horseless Horse Kids. (The kids that wanted to show horses but did not have one). Sometimes, they would showed my horses. I am also a CHA Certified Horsemanship Instructor and Lifetime member. In the beginning it was not like that at all. I was always backwards and embarrassed. 

I taught myself everything about horses with help by observing others, lots of reading, and practicing.

My first horse was Flicka, she was a medium sized Quarter pony about 12 hands, she was a beautiful bay. Flicka was 1 1/2 yrs old, and not broke, she was the first horse that I broke and trained by myself. I was only 13 years old, when I bought her for myself. With my bicycle money. Look for some of those stories to come. 

My parents had never owned a horse before and knew nothing about them. I learnt to ride the hard way, by falling off and getting right back on. I was a very stubborn young lady that never liked to give up, I still do not give up very easliy. I hit the ground more times than I care to remember. I still have A LOT OF BATTLE WOUNDS from all my wonderful experiences. Take it from an old pro the older you get the more painful those battle scars become. You really do not want to be as stubborn as I.

I started this Blog because, I never want any kids to learn like I did, by themselfs the hard way. It wasn't really my parents fault they didn't know anything about horses. I was a very good kid that paid for my own first pony. My parents just wanted me to be happy, just like any good parent.

Since then, I have bought, sold, boarded, traded, bred, raised, and trained Horses. I love to try to help horse lovers with their horses, especially you kids. If you have any problems, questions, concerns or just want to chat about horses. This is the place for you, you do not have to own a horse just be A TRUE HORSE LOVER.

The horse in the photo with me is: Miss Lady Starlight

Star was one of my first horses. My mamma bought her for me for $50.00 when she was 22 months old. I broke and trained her, too. She died in 2001, at the nice old age of 27 and 3/4. I had her for about 26 years. She was gray with a Star, Snip, and Stripe, but you can't tell that from this picture of her. She changed colors every year and people always thought I had bought a new horse. It was great.

 I am practically a professional when it comes to gray horses. I been raising them for 35 years. In fact almost all of my foals have been gray.

 I never won in a hole lot of big horse shows, I did do pretty good in a few. I never really cared to get into the show circut much. I especially like to go trail riding. If you would like to make any comments or have any questions. Give me a holler

Kids : PLEASE GET HELP PICKING OUT YOUR FIRST PONY, OR HORSE. 

To the parents out there: PLEASE LEARN ABOUT WHAT YOUR KIDS WANT BEFORE YOU LET THEM GET INVOLVED with horses or ponies.