We found some cows to put the horses on, they all did awsome, Zeta and Girlie loved herding them and were right
on top of the action tracking the cows themselves and showing no fear! Citori pushed them ok, but still liked to
go at his pace... Then we shot off of them all, Girlie and Citori did awsome, Zeta did good with the shots
off the others, but had a bit of a problem when shooting from her back... A little work should get her over
that though.
Starting down the mountain, the picture dosn't make it look nearly as steep! & this was actually a mellow slope... (the pics are being a pain tonight, click on any of them for a larger view)
Breaktime!
The boys decide to test their greenbroke horses... I think they passed the test!!
Saturday we took Black and Girlie out:
Testing Girlie's roping skills, she didn't even flinch at roping the log and drug it forwards and backwards like a pro... Black stood right be the log as it was moving and didn't care either.
Black, at the beginning of the ride, he was excited to get out and go!
We stayed out late Sat night too, riding by the full moon till 10pm, it was a lot of fun!!
Sunday... Took it easy and just hitched Girlie up to the cart for the first time, she did perfect!
The cart still needs some tweaking, but worked for a test run!
These are kind of dark, photoshop is being a pain so if you click on them and make them bigger hopefully you can see them ( I will fix them and as soon as photoshop cooperates), we hooked her up to a log and had her drag it, once again, acted like a pro, no hesitation at all!!
After dropping the log, backing her out from by the woodshed, I changed the settings on the camera so it looks lighter...
I didn't bring the other harness up for Zeta, but hopefully next weekend I will start hooking her up to logs and get her dragging, she is doing awsome!
Last weekend, we only rode Sunday, and I didn't take the camera, so of course we had a really good time with lots of good photo opportunities...
We took Black, Zeta, Citori and Gus, they all had a great time racing, even old Black (he is 28!!! his birthday was last week on the 17th) wanted to run with the others and he never sweated all day, even though the others all were. Citori finally found out 3rd gear is fun and even kept up for most of the ride...
We were susposed to go to Oregon and work cows this weekend but plans changed so we decided to test the horses
anyhow to see how they would have done!! Zeta, Citori and even Black got logs roped off of them.
They all drug them forwards and backwards, (and they were big logs that they had to really pull on to get them to move), but all acted like they had done it a million times...
At the end of the ride we traded around horses some and Citori played acrobat for a bit testing Jarrett, bucking, then showing he can walk really good on his hind legs down the side of the mountain! But Jarrett rode it out easily and Citori went back to his old self pretty quickly... He really is good at providing entertainment!!
I think that was all the fun and excitement... I'll be putting up pics from nect weekend, we should do some riding, and hopefully harness up the girls and work on dragging some logs, and who knows what else!!
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Are'nt these rides so much fun. I have the time of my life. Also it is so nice to find someone who actually can ride. I also appreciate the fact that you enjoy riding for real the way I do.
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