Welcome Cindy, so glad to have you in the community! You have gotten me curious and I am now Googling Vern Sapergia!

thanks Cindy, hey cna we use the grounds on Sun Aug17th for a jump day?

Hey that's great....things are fairly quiet around here for me except for keeping everyone fed while they work on the cabin. They put up the rafters some last night and some today, but they all weren't totally secure and began to tumble like dominos, Hayla, Matt and Robin were scrambling to prevent them from coming down and breaking apart. While I was here at the house preparing lunch I had a strong sense to pray for their safety when they got home I found out why. Thank God no one was hurt, Praise Him!

Hi Cindy,
We have some reining questions in the Western Riders' forum and you are one of our members that I think might be able to answer them if you have the time. I am no help at all in that area, so I hope you don't mind me sending along this message!:)

No...sorry but I wish I was there. I'm from B.C. Did you go to see him?

Hi Cindy, nice to see you here. Are you doing your trail clinics this year, and do you have dates yet? If we can connect on that between Faye, Pat, Rachael, myself and a couple other girls I know would be interested we could fill a day. Jet and I always have a great time there!
Thanks, Cheryl

Good morning Cindy. I really like this site! Plus nice to find you here. I have this 7 y/o QH mare I bought a few years back. Since I was out in the bush for the majority of the summers, I placed her with Larry W. and he has done 60 days training on her with an eye on reining. He really likes her (so do I) she is a sweetheart. Anyway, he thinks she has real potential and would make an awesome youth horse. I am in no panic to sell her but Jet is my #1 ride and I do prefer geldings. I have never done reining myself, so all new to me. Maybe we can incorporate some of the patterns in our clinic, and I could bring her? Also, like you mentioned it may be fun to add more challenges/obstacles. Thanks for being here to help out us beginner reiners!!!
Am off down south tomorrow for a couple days. Will touch base when I get home.
Enjoy the sunny day,
Cheryl

Hi Cindy,
I would be interested to learn more about your clinics, I don't believe I'll be making the trek though Im in Indiana. Where can I find out more about your clinic??

Hi Cindy
Got the saddle on without help tonight, so something is working. Very pleased. He was still braced and couldn't bring himself to breathe in case it ate him, but he did everything I asked without panicking, so that is a good thing.

Oh, and I looked up Doug Mills on the internet - looks interesting. I guess a lot of these guys have learned a lot of what they know from Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance. It fascinates me that there are all these horse trainers in Canada and the USA who are using these very similar methods. I think British horse training has traditionally come from the military, although I think if you come across a true 'horseman' in this country, he is generally equipped with similar qualities even if the techniques are different. I'd love to try Western riding - but I'd definitely need a different horse to do it with!

Hi Cindy
Thanks for the reply about Western riding. I guess I meant I would need a different horse that isn't scared of his saddle, in order to put one of those enormous western saddles on! I do use quite a lot of round penning with him already and I have tried Parelli's methods in the past, but I now feel that Parelli's techniques are quite aggressive with all the rope twirling and stick waving and they miss the subtlety of the body language that Chris Irwin has identified. I have found Chris Irwin's methods to be much more horse-friendly in every sense for me. I can see that it would be possible to adapt some of Parelli's 'games' in a useful way, but with more awareness of how we position our own bodies in relation to the horse. As with everything, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and I am sure I made my horse's fear worse by trying to use Parelli's techniques. Ho hum... I have forgiven myself for 'not knowing what I didn't know' and my horse is starting to do the same, at last.
Interesting that you use different 'aids' in Western riding though. I wish I knew how to find it, but someone emailed me a brilliant YouTube video of two riders, one Western, one English, doing the most amazing 'duet' of dressage in an arena. It was incredible - there was the guy in the cowboy hat on a little quarter horse, and this other guy in a top hat and tails riding a great big warmblood, doing exactly the same moves at the same time! Then they swapped over horses and did exactly the same again on each other's horses! Amazing! If I can find the link, I'll post it.

Well, I'm coming to Alberta in August, so who knows maybe one day I'll make it out to BC and come and visit you! It looks a truly beautiful place.

Cindy, I loved your post about Ryn and the young girl that has fallen in love with him. What a special gift to be able to help weave horse/human relationships. Very special really!

your horses are beautiful!! I like the one in you profile shot, hes stunning!

wow, thats really good! ya i'm going to be breeding my horse this year and hopefully get a little baby next year

hey up Cindy!!
I'm just having a nosey at the pics here ... Wonderful!!!
and I was just over reading your post in "Rusty Riders"
...you're a Star, ya know ... Thanks for sharing!!
~ Barby

Hi,

I saw on the CHA website that a certification clinic is scheduled at your place in september. Is this clinic still happening? If so, are there any spots left?

Thanks, Gillian

Hi Cindy

Can you let me know who the video "Dancing with your horse" is with. I would like to purchase this video.

I see you have a buckskin horse. I have a dun.

Thanks Cheers

Ohhh My Gosh Cindy!!
Don't You DARE Apologize for being straightforward, frank, sincere, and HONEST!!
Actually, You’ve NO Idea how Much I Appreciate Your “Reality Check”
Your comment … those are the kinds of things “friends” tell one another.….hmmmmm…. Some Very Good food for thought in your words.
I’ll definitely be mulling them around as I decide about this filly.
If I were to get her … fortunately, I will have at least one or two other horse(s) to ride, while I wait for the filly to grow.
I was thinking of her more as an on going “project”
But your words REALLY brought something home to me … I need to revise my will, to Make Certain that “if” something happens to me … my will executor, will know Exactly what to do with regards to “placing” them.
……Thanks my friend
~ Barby

awsome!!! he is very gorgeous!
halle

Wow!!! Yes and he is gorgeous Cindy. Thanks for your reply, and yes a gold mine for sure. I was hoping to breed my Mare to him next year!!! I did the bloodline comparisons on both his Dam and Sire's side and it would have been nice.

Also yes, people are starting to get it. Morgans with Ben-Don blood are not pure. I have one and it is my love for him a Gelding that started my research on bloodlines and Morgans. Like the Canadian horse , all you want to do is save the breed. Save those original bloodlines. Is his Sire or Dam still around???

This is not the first time I have hit a dead end. I have come across ones that come close but once I review the lines, I see it. I don't want even one cross to a Saddle or Thoroughbred.

Hello Cindy,
I saw your update and remembered you introduced me to C. Mercer, with the Don Marco gelding, Arador.
I'm working my Morgan horse to begin driving, maybe this fall. I want to get lots of time with the long lines and a harness before hitching to anything. Don't want an accident.
See my photos of my first ever foal out of Fiesta D and by Pavon, both PRE Andalusians. My friend Ellin M Daum is a member too and posted pictures of her beautiful stallion (my baby's daddy).

How is this summer treating you?? we need a little less rain than June had and for the heat to go down some, but its summer Right!

I am excited about going to the World Eq Games in fall. Hope to see Fuego XII in person.

Got any new pictures??

Brenda