Great day To You!
The Super Stakes Cutting Horse show semi finals is this afternoon. Seems like the show was just starting, where does time go and why does it go so fast? There are some real standouts in this, as there always is. Have several good friends who have made the cut and I wish they could all walk away with the top spot.
All in all, the second jewel of our cutting horse triple crown has been a great show! The first few days the cows were iffy, but that happens. After all, these horses are supposed to perform no matter what the condtions or the quality of the cows.
This show has been a kick in the butt for me, since I don’t have anyone entered, it’s just been go watch, socialize, and have fun!
If you are interested, you can go subscribe to the cutting horse newsletter online & get the daily results. The link to subscribe is: http://www.swtcutting.com/blog
Have a spectacular day!
Join me in “Celebrating Wealth” with your horses,
Barbara
The Wealthy Cowgirl
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Good Morning To You!
Another precious filly joined us this morning! All Spring the mares have been foaling from one to two weeks early, this one foaled exactly on the due date. Goes to show when we think we’ve got it dialed in what these horses are going to do, the we get our lifes’ lesson.
If this mama mare had her choice, she’d take her baby far away so I’d not be able to get my hands on her. You just don’t know how a first foal mare is going to behave after foaling. I would sure rather have them over protective, like this one, than not caring at all. She’ll settle down in a day or so.
One more mare to foal, and then can go back to sleeping regularly, well, that’s a good plan anyway!? This last one is due on April 24, and she doesn’t look like she’ll go that long, but what do I know?
I’m going to the barn and try to get some pictures of the baby without the mare blocking the way. We’ll see how that goes! Have a beautiful day!!
Join me in “Celebrating Wealth” and your precious horses!
Barbara
The Wealthy Cowgirl
Happy Day To You!
How many different horse feeds do we really need? It seems that I spend a ridiculous amount of time just running here and there for all the different feeds that my horses eat. Today I’m heading out to Teskeys, now this is a fun place for any horse person. They just opened their feed barn last year and this is where I get the mares and babies ration. I can spend hours in the main store, it seems they carry everything. Any one who has been there knows what I mean. I love their horse supplies and the saddles, well, it would take hours to go through all of them, enough said?
For the ropers, they have a huge inventory of ropes and equipment and the nicest retired roper to answer all your questions. Personally, I’m not a big fan of their clothes, seems they have tried to incorporate California surf with western & the result is not my style! Being from California, I have a hard time trying to see where they think what they carry is what the surfers & beach people actually wear. Guess this proves you can’t be everything to everybody!
It’s a fun place with knowledgeable staff, and I’m very happy its here in Weatherford! Now go out and hug your horses, can’t think of a better way to start your day!
Join me in Celebrating Wealth and your horses!
Barbara
The Wealthy Cowgirl
Happy You Are Here!
I had an interesting, if you can call it that, thing happen yesterday. As I do every morning, I turn the mares and babies out of their stalls and runs to their pastures. Well, when I got to the youngest filly, I had quite a surprise! This dear little angel of a baby decided she was not going to get caught this morning. She not only was not going to get caught, she decided to get her mother all fuzzed up as well!
This filly has always be a bigger challenge to get haltered and started in leading. All babies are silly when they are learning something new and that’s really a good thing. I have found the more trouble they are, the better they turn out. My opinion is, the smarter ones will try you a lot more just to see how far they can push! Well, this little girl must be a genius.
It took me almost 45 minutes to get a halter on her. This is in a stall with a 30 foot run, good grief! I almost forgot to mention, this is one that has moves that put some of the trained cutting horses on notice. She gets down on her belly to make a corner and has done this since she was 5 days old. When she is playing, she can kick above my head. The other day when she was nursing, guess she bit down a bit hard, and her mom gave her a nip. Well, that didn’t set well with her & mom just missed getting her head kicked off. So you can see where I’m going with this.
Happy to say, we finally got haltered and out to pasture, guess this one is going to take a litle more work?! Let me add, when it was time to come in later, we almost had a replay of the mornings’ activities, only with a lot more room. Glad she was a little tired from all her racing around.
Oh yeah, it’s time to go tackle my little angel that grew horns!
Join me in Celebrating Wealth and Your Precious Horses!
Barbara
The Wealthy Cowgirl
HI, I’m Glad You’re Here!
This rainy weather has the mares and babies feeling good! What amazing moves these little ones have. Now that I know they have the talent and athletic ability, the real test will be when they first face a cow in a few years. It’s fun comparing what their mothers did when they were this age & how they turned out.
We all spend so much time studying the pedigrees and the horses to try & figure out who should be the best matches to produce what we are looking for. When its all said & done, the best pedigree and all the athletic ability in the world doesn’t mean a thing if they don’t love what they do!
What is so wonderful about these horses, even though our pride and joy doesn’t always
end up doing what we planned on, they can always go on & excel at something more suited to their personality. Aren’t horses great!!!??
Everyone around here has been getting ready for the Super Stakes Cutting Horse show which starts Monday march 30th. It just doesn’t seem possible that another year has gone by, but zip zap,it has.
Time to get out to the barn and spoil the babies.
Join me in “Celebrating Wealth” with our precious horses.
Barbara
The Wealthy Cowgirl
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Mar
24
2009
Happy To See You!
Have you ever wondered if a work at home business is right for you? I’ll tell you, raising & training Cutting Horses doesn’t leave a lot of time to go to work somewhere else. I have been very fortunate to have a great home based business that gives me all the time I need for my horses. My Intent is to share with you some great resources along the way that can help you spend more time with your horses.
I Guess what I’m trying to say is, I am really unemployable, how about you? The horses always come before anything else and I like it that way! My personality just doesn’t allow me to have anyone tell me what to do and when to do it. I believe a lot of horse people are probably the same way.
It’s a totally different story now, if the advice or sugggestions are coming from another horse person or one of my trainer friends. Everytime I spend time with horse people, I will learn something else. Aren’t we all a great bunch of poeple to hang out with??!!
Our Super Stakes Cutting Horse show starts March 30th & I am really looking forward to spending time with the people who will be here from other parts of the country. Even though we sometimes don’t see each other for several months at a time, we always have a blast!
Time to go do a bit of business so I can pay for the horses!
Join me in “Celebrating Wealth” and our precious horses.
Barbara
The Wealthy Cowgirl
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