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Hello all! Bentley and I are going to be in a Lighted Christmas Parade in our town, and we are so excited to participate! He was shaved in the middle of October, so he doesn't have a really fluffy coat when it gets cold. We will be driving in the parade, if it were to get cold, I can't put a...

This may be an odd question, or one that has an obvious answer, I'm not sure. When showing in driving, when asked to reverse, should you try to pivot on your tire ( like in driving obstacle ) or should you make a wide turn, if you have the room? I'm always on the outside, since Bentley is a...

I'm sorry this topic has been so overdone, but I would like to spark another conversation on Draft Classes. I read somewhere that if you show in Draft Halter, you must show in Draft Driving. Is this true? I honestly can't find anything on the Internet pointing me in the right direction for...

Hi! I have wanted to show Bentley in more classes at shows ( all we show together in is Country Pleasure Driving and Liberty ) and I really want to venture out of both of our comfort zones and try Showmanship! I watched it (I guess last weekend?) at Nationals and it looks like something Bentley...

Well, I have been working with my boys this winter about showing off. Bentley is perfect (to me) as always, Devil finally realized that is better to trot pretty than to gallop like a wild man in the ring. But Jazzy needed lots of encouragement to do his best. I praised him when he did his big...

I'm showing two upcoming 3yr olds. They both turn 3 on May 5th (they were born the same day) and the show I'm going to is the Daffodil Dandy in Glen Rose TX April 19th-21st. Are they still 2yr olds, or are they 3? Thanks you!

I am hoping to get Jazzy accustomed to anything, including the outside world. When I do parades, he will be my go to horse. He doesn't spook easy. The last clinic we went to, he walked over a bridge and a tarp in harness and cart for the first time just fine. I'm very confident in him. But, I...

Devil has really come far in just a year. Anyone who meets him for the first time wonders why his name is Devil. Well, he was a real Devil! He would be like a bratty kid, not aggressive, but he really liked to push my buttons. I really honestly didn't know what I was going to do with him...

Well, I thought I would update, once again. On Sunday I went to a driving clinic with a national and world trainer. This guy was the man who trained Bentley before I had bought him in 2009. This trainer (not going to say his name, I don't have any permission to) can do amazing things to horses...

I was just wondering because I have seen TINY horses pulling a cart when I randomly look at driving horse pictures. Right now I drive Bentley who is 37.75" tall and I just finished training Jazzy who is 33(?)" tall. I have a 28" gelding Devil, who I just couldn't picture being in a cart. And...

I know there are (in AMHR) 3 different styles of driving. Western Pleasure, Country Pleasure and Pleasure. I know there is difference between Western and Country Pleasure, but what about Pleasure? I'm just curious because I don't think I have ever seen a pleasure class. Either I was in the show...

So, I have been thinking of shaving the horses heads and necks for the presentation I'm doing in February for the 4-H. But, with the cold weather we have had, I'm wondering if that would affect the horses at all. Does the head and neck of the horse affect his body heat? I know the belly does...

I've been thinking, if a horse has white hooves (Is that the color?) is it better if they have clear hoof polish? I have Bentley ( pictured in my avatar ) who I have always painted his hooves black. But, I wonder what he would look like with clear? His old owner has always shown him in black...

For those who have iPhones, iPads, or Anything else that has autocorrect, you know what I'm talking about. I have had my iPhone 5 for a week and I have already had many autocorrect fails! So, share your experience with autocorrect! I was texting my friend one day and all I wanted to say was OK...

Hi! I have needed a bitting rig for so long. I saw one on eBay. It's a nylon and it looks like a good one, but the thing that has me concerned is that it's Bidding for $9.99. Am I just being weird? Just it seems too cheap for what the pic shows. I looked at the website it came off of and they...

Hi! So, most of ya'll probably know that I have been training Jazzy to drive. Well, its coming along really well!!!! Saturday, I had a friend help me lead him while he was in the cart, like people suggested. He did really well and we didnt need her help for long. She got in the cart with me...

Well, they aren't our donkeys, they are my grandparents, but they let me and my cousin "have" one of them. Last summer, or two summers ago, I dont remember. Anyway, my grandparents' neighbors had two jacks (who are stallions) dumped on their property. They asked my grandparents to take them in...

BTW, I meant ANY tips in the title, sorry LOL As most know, I'm in the 4-H horse club, of course the only one with minis. Last year for one of our meetings, we did a Miniature Horse Presentation for the members. Me and 2 other people were going to do it, but then one person had foals due, so...

Maybe it's too soon to ask, as I'm still training Jazzy. I am hoping to make him my pleasure driving horse, one I can hook up and go anywhere, but I don't have that much confidence, I like staying in the pasture LOL! But for in the future, I would like to know how to start de-spooking him for...

I was watching videos on how to feed a horse (not that I don't know how,just like those kind of videos) And it was saying that feeding a horse hay on a very dusty floor can cause them to cough. I feed them hay on the ground because my horses just throw the hay out of their huge grain buckets...