AMAZING Horse video

[Bo B Bunny]

This is really amazing! For those of you who love horses for whatever reason - check it out. I love natural horsemanship anyhow.

Stacy rides her horses in REINING - which is a competition of speed, accuracy and control of a horse. They spin and do sliding stops - But Stacy does it with a major twist.... which you'll see -

http://www.westfallhorsemanship.com/index.php?page=seeus

Go to the bottom and click videos.

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

That is amazing!:shock:I've started doing Parelli with Smokey recently and have really started to notice a difference. It was the lightness about it that attracted me, that people can ride with no bridle at all and still do amazing things with their horses and yet some have to use strong bits, martingales, spurs, various nose bands etc to get the same results.

Smokey is a lovely, honest horse but can be quite bargey and strong at times (and as he has quite a lot of Irish draft in him if he decides to throw his weight around he'll win!:?) but now I can just lightly touch his hindquarters or chestto get him to move out the way or back-upin the stable.

 

[EileenH]

Isn't that incredible? I saw that about a month ago, and it always chokes me. I can't imagine being that good at something. It is just beautiful.

Hmm - I think I know which video you're talking about but the first link doesn't take you there.
Is this it?:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaMI5PkLIM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaMI5PkLIM[/ame]

This is another of my fave horse videos. Different that Stacy Westfall, but if you love horses, the song is very fitting & the video goes with it well:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVWYMl2yg1E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVWYMl2yg1E[/ame]

 

[EileenH]

Ah I just tried to edit it but it's too late.
The first link (Stacy Westfall) starts slow, but hang in there - it's worth it.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

yeah it's the one where she's sitting and waiting to go in to compete. She actually grand championed and it was in Ohio at the Horse Congress.

Parelli is pretty cool but I also like Clinton Anderson. You should post some pictures of Smokey!

My father inlaw is pretty good like that. I sent Kota to him for a year and I just have to tell him to give me his foot - sometimes he does it on his own. I used to have to fight him.

Kota backs, turns, and does anything just following me - and FIL didn't work with him all that much.

Kota LOVES him, too.

Pokie is really his horse but he gave her to Lexi to use as long as she wants. That horse is a hoot! If you LOOK like you want her to lift her hoof, it's up!

I don't believe in "punish" training horses. We use really gentle bits (tom thumb) and if we need spurs, it's only little bumper spurs usually. Pokie has issues with Lexi's legs being too short and she can't tell what Lexi's asking her to do so she has to wear spurs but only so Pokie can feel her.

Horse Fair is next month here! I can't wait! Lots of clinics and TONS of shopping! WOOHOO!

 

[EileenH]

You guys are so lucky to be able to work with horses!

I'm a little lucky, in that my uncle has a farm, and when I was about 12, he took me with my 3 cousins there every weekend & for summers. So, I'm a city girl who got to bale hay, ride ponies, have chickens... it really changed me. I am so different than the rest of my family (my siblings, who didn't go).

So I will have to live vicariously through you all.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

I grew up in the suburbs but my grandpa ran a farm. I was chased by a bull at about 8 years old I guess.

We always had animals and I had a duck at one point. We always went riding at parks and stuff but once I got married I was around the horses all the time. Then the neighbors leased my daughter one and got my son in sheep showing. I got Bo and the rest is history there LOL!

More than anything, I enjoy spending "quiet" time in the barn with the horses. Once their stalls are done, they are all groomed, and I feed them.... the lights go down and on nice spring nights - just stand there listening to them munch their hay.....

It's actually very relaxing.

 

[EileenH]

I know exactly what you mean. Some of my most favorite memories of being at the farm was during the summers. We had to do "summer reading" for school, and geek that I was, I loved to read so I liked it.

I used to bring my books to the farm, and sit in the corral under a tree with the horses around me. Sometimes, I'd sit on them and lay down so my head was on their rump (back when I was 12, I could actually bend that way!) and read for hours that way.

Very special times...