Karyn and Saunder

Our amazing trainer, Karyn Shirley, was here recently working with ten of our horses.  She did an amazing job with each of them, including getting a halter on Splash and Otumwa! So now all of the horses that live here on the ranch have had a halter on..some still need more ground work training but it is great that they all have experienced a halter.

She also halter trained Saunder who will be a year old on May 18th. He has been gelded and is the most awesome special horse. Karyn had him doing ground work and learning about the obstacle course the second day.  I call him my zen horse because when he is in the holding pen he just stands there and looks at me very seriously.  He and Mystery love to follow me around.

Karyn and Saunder doing ground work.

Saunder checking out the bridge.

Over the poles, we go!

Sweetie, Kathe and Obstacle Course

We have had a lot of fun recently with our lovely horse gentler, Kathe Smothers, http://quietmindhorsemanship.com/.  She set up an obstacle course for us to use with the horses.
Below is a photo of Kathe introducing Sweetie to the course: