Wow, it's been almost a month since my last post! Where does the time go?
Nothing too exciting to report with Mr. Sport, we've been working on learning body parts and learning to "hold" (i.e. him giving me his face when asked, but then have his face stay touching my hand for 2 - 8 seconds before I release him). We've also been doing about 10 minutes of free lunging at the walk and trot to get him to better understand the voice commands of "Tee-rot!" and "Aaaand Waaa-lk" Only horse people fully understand those commands and the inflection implied! ha. :-) And the lunging too is to get him into abit better shape before he goes to Jack Lieser's place for the month of April.
Speaking of Jack, I'm shooting his colt starting clinic this Saturday and Sunday. I'm very excited about it, not only the photography but also getting to audit Jack's work! Jack is an advocate for the Nokota horse (a rare native breed from North Dakota), so this clinic is using Nokotas only. Pretty cool!
Oh, and I got to see Robin P. a couple weeks ago at Sam Houston Race Park, as she got a race named in Jim's honor (The Jim Bausch Memorial Claiming Race (3rd race) ran on Friday February 25, 2011). A very large group of people who loved, respected and admired Jim were on hand to watch the race and then have a group photo in the winner's circle with Robin in the center holding the memorial trophy. Great to see her as always, and she's always so tickled to hear about Sport's progress, especially since I was the last private individual to buy a horse from Jim's herd. Apparently after I bought Sport, some random man bought all of the remaining 14 horses to re-train and re-sell them separately, so Robin has no idea what has happened to them :-(
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