Kallie has been working! I am starting Kallie in harness, soon to be put to a cart....and I finally found a suitable cart for us...a heavy duty training cart with thick, nobby motorcycle wheels...Kallie has shown a stellar attitude in all her lessons, I attribute this to her early training with Trainer Mike ( Mike Kincella- Deer Park, WA well respected dressage trainer ) He found Kallie's work ethic for us, and she has not failed to step up to any challenge I give her.
My process of cart training has been as follows....there was not a whole lot of ground work I still needed to do with Kallie..she even ground ties! so, intro to harness, wearing her harness while lunging, long linning, ground driving, into to blinkers, working with blinkers while long linning, with me out of sight, into to the travers, dragging the travers beside her, travers work with 2 helpers ( Kallie in travers, but not hitched to it ) hitching to travers....
NOW..we start, travers and long linning, travers and blinkers, more long linning, travers and driving OUTSIDE the arena....up, down, over gravel, on the road edge ( I have a huge advantage, we live on a noisy county road, BUT I have a safe place to work a driving horse along side of the road, including room for a travers, and esp using blinkers.
and soon...I will hitch Kallie to our cart...the "keen green" LOL...it screamed NAME ME !!! and we start the whole process all over again ;-)
stay tuned! Linda @ creekside curlies
What fun to read your post, Linda! Kallie looks amazing and such a great built to pull! I am so excited that you are realizing your dream of driving one of your home-raised curlies! Please keep us posted okay?
ReplyDeleteyep..she is built to pull ;-) she is an amazing athlete, and I am enjoying every moment of working with her!
ReplyDeleteLinda, Kallie is very sturdy and beautiful. Love her head and expression, too. She looks to be an outstanding Curly cart horse project! I love those easy entry metal carts because you can spiff them up very easily with a can of spray paint. Mine is red and black.
ReplyDeleteKallie is GORGEOUS. Awesome feeling with the homegrowns eh? I've never had it with a horse but have with our homegrown/bred show cattle
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