I Broke My First Horse Ever!!!

[Tim Mead]

Cool beans..I'm a cutting and reining fan..like the finesse side of riding..
Nothing like doing fast turnarounds or sliding stops with your arms crossed,
perfectly in tune with the pony..And cutting the rider is just along for the ride,Like cat and mouse..Is it a buckskin or dun ? can't see if its got a line on its back..Congrats and good luck..

[SlitherinSisters]

Cool beans..I'm a cutting and reining fan..like the finesse side of riding..
Nothing like doing fast turnarounds or sliding stops with your arms crossed,
perfectly in tune with the pony..And cutting the rider is just along for the ride,Like cat and mouse..Is it a buckskin or dun ? can't see if its got a line on its back..Congrats and good luck..

Definitely! We had a retired, due to serious injury, reining horse on our farm for several years. She went from a $10,000 champion reining horse, to glue factory quality. We found an awesome home for her with a loving older woman who doesn't want to ride. She lets that dang horse out in her yard during the day and she doesn't even leave the yard!!! We drove up one day and saw Holly walking around in the yard, we asked her what on earth she was doing and she said "what? horses don't stay in your yard?"

She's a buckskin, but she does have the stripe down her back. Her sire is a buckskin with a stripe down his back as well. His name is CashBeatsAll (www.cashbeatsall.com) She's really pretty in the summer time. She got the golden buckskin color from her sire, and she got her dams dapples.

[blackcrystal22]

Super congrats! That takes a lot of patience.

Good luck with her, I'm sure she'll be a nice calm horse when she's used to being ridden. Doesn't look flighty at all.

[SlitherinSisters]

Super congrats! That takes a lot of patience.

Good luck with her, I'm sure she'll be a nice calm horse when she's used to being ridden. Doesn't look flighty at all.

Thank you!!! I've put quite a few hours into that girl. She's amazingly clam for a young horse! It takes a lot to get her worked up and she clams down pretty quickly. She's beginning her 3rd week at the trainer! I'm so excited to get her back and start riding her on the trails! I haven't had a chance to talk to him yet so I have no idea how she is doing outside of the round pen.

[FrostFell]

Amazing work you've done with her, to be so calm and trusting! I used to do dressage years ago but can't afford to keep horses anymore

Whats her name?

[SlitherinSisters]

Amazing work you've done with her, to be so calm and trusting! I used to do dressage years ago but can't afford to keep horses anymore

Whats her name?

Thank you every much! Her name is Tora, it means thunder, she was born during a thunderstorm. Her mom had a really tough time having her because she was so huge!

I went to the trainer to ride her this past week and my lord I think she grew even more!!! She's really awesome. The trainer said she wasn't great while being saddled because she moved around, but she didn't move a single foot when I saddled her! She did give me some issues when I rode her. He has a really big indoor area (what you can see in the picture is the viewing area, about 1/4th of the barn) and she was spooky because the wind was blowing ice against the steel building. She took off on me a couple times but only went 3-4 strides before I got her stopped. She's really difficult to steer right now. He is keeping her another 3 weeks, so that will make it a total of 2 1/2 months of training.

Here's a new picture of her from this week! I realize she's a tad young to be broke, but he wanted to start her now because she's so big. She's 2 months shy of 2 years old. I trust his judgment and he is a very "horse whispery" type of trainer. He's VERY quite and kept telling me I wasn't praising or talking to her enough. I thought I talked a lot! He can steer her pretty well and he does it by holding the reins with his pinky finger! He mostly trains barrel racers and has world and nationally ranked barrel horses. He just sold a brother to one of the nationally ranked mares for $15,000 and he didn't have any titles!!!!

I'm holding her and I'm just a hair short of 5'7''