Clara and Steven

Steven had a VERY good training session with Clara today. He got her bridled, saddled and ponied behind Mike on Mika. Then Steven got on her and again she was ponied in the indoor arena. She is doing very well. She doesn't care at all about having someone on her back. She still doesn't know how to go forward but she is learning. She is also responding to the bit. When Steven is asking for a whoa and gently pulling back she is stopping. He did a lot of ground work first to teach her to go off his voice. This really helps once Steven is on her, if she listens to his voice when he is on the ground it is a small step for her to listen while he is on her. I've included a picture of her, she is a very pretty mare, big bodied, with a good disposition. This is our first time to try for a buckskin foal and if we were going to try, we wanted the best conformation we could find. Clara had only been a brood mare for her first owners. They bought her as a weanling for $5000.00 and showed her in halter where she won grand championships. We were honored to be able to have her for our brood mare herd. But because of the economy we are going to put her up for sale. We would like to only feed about 20 horses for next winter instead of the 32 we fed this winter. Diane and I were going over which ones to place for sale. Each of our mares are chosen for their quality and it is hard to decide which to sell. We will leave it up to our buyers.