brego king of the horses

I rode Brego in the Afton Christmas Parade last night.  I had the help of Robynne from Happy Trails club.  She gave me decorating ideas and some stuff to put on him!  I wish my husband was able to take pictures!  Unfortunately, my digital camera is full.  Shame on me, I should have cleaned it out beforehand!  I will make sure to do it now!  Her horse, George, was awesome, and it helped Brego to be calmer and I think he did awesome!  There was a lot of stimulation, sounds, dark, the lights, the noise..but we survived and Brego really seemed to enjoy himself!  He has not seen our trailer in a few months, but loaded like a champ!  I am so tired now, gotta go to work…but happy!

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What’s on your mind?

I have had Brego for 6 years.  It has been quite a different experience than when I had my first horse as a teenager.   I grew up with Amoreena.  She was 11 months old and I was about 14 years.  There was an assurance of youth; that I could do this raising and training of a young horse.  Knowledge was limited to me so I didn’t have to sort through a lot of material to make sure I was doing it the “right” way.  Never heard of natural horsemanship then.  I just treated her as my friend.  Another very important fact was that I had no fear.  I never knew about all the things that could go wrong.  I never expected anything to go wrong.   When Amoreena was riding age, my sister got a horse too.  I would take Amoreena out by herself at...

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