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Rochester Trail Riders

Foal Training: Month 9

Here’s a short video of Ellie line driving for the very first time.

I love line driving.  I exercise my horses this way very frequently. (mainly to give myself exercise)  I like it because the horse is out front, it encounters all the scary things first and they have to think through obstacles.

Since [...]

Tyja Training – Scary Tarp

Since I had my camera out to video Ellie vs the tarp I figured I’d might as well get some video of a new horse we now have. Tyja has been with us for about 2 weeks and we’ve started her in-hand training.  She’s been green broke to ride/drive but I start every horse [...]

Foal Training Diary – 8 months old

Happy Thanksgiving!

With a super long weekend I had time to dig out the video camera and get some video clips of how Ellie’s training is going.  It has been a blast keeping track of her training progress as I get to she how she is growing both physically and mentally.

We’ve been doing [...]

Foal Training Diary – Month 5

Foal Training Diary: Week 4

Things are progressing well with Ellie.  She now will come up and look for a scratch instead of me having to catch her, hold and then rub her down.  She is starting to figure out that halter pressure on the poll means move forward and not backwards or rearing.  She also will pick up [...]

Foal Training Diary – Week 2

Last year I was spoiled rotten with our foal. From birth Izzy was calm, cool headed and willing to tolerate pretty much anything. It took very little effort and patience on my part to get results. For example check out this video of a bandage change I was doing daily.

Our 2011 filly [...]