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Challenges in a retraining project
By Patty Wilber I have a six year old gelding, named Five, that came in as a retrain about seven weeks ago. He was said to have come off a feedlot and while he was demonstrated at a walk, trot, … Continue reading
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Back Country Horseman Memorial Day Weekend 2023
By Patty Wilber The Pecos Chapter of the Back Country Horseman camped at the Panchuela Administrative site and rode out from there to work on Windsor Trail 254, Windsor Ridge (271) and Cave Creek (288). Kevin, on foot, (yes, we … Continue reading
Why I pony
By Patty Wilber I like to ride in the back country and I like to pack, so I need horses that will pony. In truth, I guess I don’t actually love packing, but it is useful to have horses that … Continue reading
Double Adventure!
By Patty Wilber On Mother’s Day, Jim, Richard and me did a a little 13 mile round-trip jaunt in the Sandia Mountains, almost to South Peak, for Back Country Horsemen. We transported some of the water (there are no good … Continue reading
Rip gets some points
By Patty Wilber My last hurrah with Rip (at the NM Buckskin/NM Appaloosa show) was fun! (He has been for sale, and he did get sold. He will be moving east as soon as shipping is arranged.) Rip is a … Continue reading
The LP Gene in Gette, 2023
By Patty Wilber Springtime with shedding Gette (Sufragette CD) is always fun because we get the Sneak Preview of her summer coat. She is not fully shed, yet, but we can still see how roany her hip is!
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NMApHC Ranch Clinic
By Patty Wilber Last weekend the New Mexico Appaloosa Club put on a Ranch Trail Clinic at the Stanley Cyclone Arena in Stanley, NM. This clinic is the brain child of Kathryn Erikson and is the second one we have … Continue reading
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Riding again, plus Spring is springing!
By Patty Wilber We have a gopher snake hibernaculum under the cement apron of our garage, and every April, the gopher snakes come out. The most I have seen coming out in any given year was four, but we don’t … Continue reading
New Mexico Buckskin Horse Association Training Show #2
By Patty Wilber This last weekend was the second in the training show series for the New Mexico Buckskin Horse Association. We thought it would be smaller than the first one, and it was, but it was not that much … Continue reading
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Maybe just a little whining and then some good news!
By Patty Wilber Over the course of the two rounds of chemo that I have been doing since October, 2022, I have held up decently, and no one side effect has been unmanageable, but after all these months of little … Continue reading