February 2nd, 2011

Hello again!

We have another excellent new volunteer, Maegan. She owns a half mustang and has quite a lot of excellent horse experience! She'll be working with Cash, who has needed his own special friend for quite some time. Next time, we'll post pictures and share Cash's story. Cash is a young Thoroughbred gelding, and he's really filled out in the past year--he's starting to resemble his elegant racehorse relatives!

The usual crowd was out at the barn on February 2nd: Katie, Sam, Kassi, Sasha, and Julie Hart. Sasha worked with Vanilla Bean some more, and Julie Hart worked with Jasmine. Jasmine is a young Morgan mare who came to the rescue with Maverick, Jewell, and Caroline. Today, Julie was able to ride Jasmine. Morgans are such unique personalities--and Julie has done a great job with Jasmine's training so far.
Here are some pictures:

Way to go, Julie and Jasmine! Julie has such an interesting saddle--it's treeless, and looks super comortable. The horses probably like it, too.  Julie is the owner of several former Hytyme horses:

Celeste:

Malissa:

Fifi (and Celeste, too):

All three, this summer at Hytyme:

Next time, we'll show more pictures and give more history about some of our horses, including Vanilla Bean, who were rescued in terrible condition from one of the worst situations imaginable.
More soon!