well, it's that time.
norco emm 2010 apps are open and mary, my mom, and i each submitted one.
hopefully we get chosen again and we get the chance to show them what real competitors we are!! not that we weren't last time, but ruger was lame and didn't show to her fullest in the finals, and mary wasn't allowed to compete for points.
this time however...ya'll need to watch out! :)
the norco girls are taking home 1st, 2nd, and 3rd... lord have mercy on the rest of ya'll.
the new house is coming along great, finally settled and every room is painted, the front yard is landscaped and we are moving along on the backyard.
WE HAVE AUTOMATIC WATERERS!!!!! i'm so excited about not filling up buckets anymore!! the rats have decided to use them as swimming pools! thank god we won't have that problem anymore!
alright, enough blabbering...i have horses to work!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
new house updates!
thought i would send an update! we are all moved in and the horses are LOVING it at home!! more to come when mary gets home and we start using this thing as a photojournal!!
<3 jenn
Thursday, July 16, 2009
new blog, new name, same cool people!!
It's our NEW HOUSE!!! *dancing*So since we are offical norcoians now(yayyyyy!!!!), true to fashion we have a "ranch", The Cadillac Ranch... and since all the horses we have been riding lately have decided it's more fun to break in half and be naughty than to behave and be contenders in a show pen, we have renamed our training operation from Eliminator Performance Horses to Broke N Half Training and Lessons.
Fitting right?! lol. at least we think it's cool and it gives us the warm and fuzzies inside!
Ruger and Stryker are riding in BITS now! yes i said BITS!! we are so proud of our girls and thier shank bits, now they are still snaffle mouth pieces but hey...they get the point across and we can bridle them with no problem.
We did have to spererate the girls though, they have this unholy bond to each other and I'm all for them being a "herd" but enough is enough and it's time to "wean" them if you may.
We are now accepting TIP horses...well as soon as our barn and round pen are built..so if anyone wants a bad ass mustang in 90 days...look us up!
Till next time!
-Jenn
Friday, July 3, 2009
me, a BAY fanatic....nooooo
The parentals on a trail ride. My dad is riding Roxanne..our old pro mustang, and my mom is riding Belle.. I'm on Ruger, but you know how much I love the camera! hahah. i kid i kid.
Taco(formerly Miss El Paso) our EMM purchase is coming along nicely. she's broke to ride and awesome, but she's not "Jennifer White Broke". yes, there is a difference. Ride one of my horses..you'll see.
This is what my spoiled rotten little bratty Ruger mare does when I give her a bath..she rolls in her damn pee hole. I swear this mare absolutley HAS to be dirty..she cannot stay clean to save her life.--------
So I sold Carlton and Wesley is out on a lease...thats two geldings out of my hair!! I also gave Kristy Reed my other show gelding Mikey. They love him beyond words and I'm so happy he went to them!
That leaves me down to 4 horses...3 mustangs and a paint(with no spots mind you!) -and- they are all bays! No, we don't buy all bay horses to confuse you..and yes I could spot MY bay horses in a sea of bays..it's a gift really.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
who's itching for an update?
You are! :)
Ruger and stryker are doing well with their bit training, I've taken to just riding her in the hackamore lately cause i'm lazy and i don't have a competition to worry about so..meh! They are turning out to be such great trail horses, by the way, i've come to HATE arenas. I rode Carlton in the pen yesterday and was bored within 5 miliseconds. so I took him out on the trail and down into the riverbed and got more accomplished than I would have in the arena. Who would have known loping the windy switchbacks would turn into teaching lead changes?? huh..
Anyhow, I have some rather awesome news. We all have a horse that we had at one point and wished we didn't sell..mine was a bred in the purple little mare name Foxy Cutter Belle. She is a registered breedingstock paint but had all the talent in the world to hang with the big boys. Unfortunatly she came out with not a speck of white on her and she was sold to us for $2500 when she was two. I took her, broke her, and won every local show class under the sun with her...then I did the most idiodic thing of my life. I sold her. I've been searching for her for a few years, the new owner never transfered her into his name, so everywhere I got a dead end. I sort of knew where she was, the same barn I left her at, but I didn't really know. The other day my parents were driving around looking for properties and we came by this one house that was locked up, we called our agent but she was at the river and couldn't come open it. So my dad goes over to his friends house who lives in the same neighborhood, who's wife is a realtor, and askes if she can open the door for us. Their daughter has a horse, so naturally we stuck up a convorsation. I asked her where she boarded her horse and she said Moonshadow Farms...That's where I sold Belle...So I say "oh yeah, that's cool, I think my old mare Belle is there." and she goes "Belle?!?! you owned her? She's for sale!" My heart pounded, I couldn't breath, my mind was racing, it was all I could do from leaping out of the car and shouting.
Needless to say, The next day I went to the bank, pulled out the money I had been saving to buy Ruger with (trust me I fought myself hard when I saw a saddle I could have bought with the money) and bought Belle back.
She's home, forever. :)
-Jenn
Ruger and stryker are doing well with their bit training, I've taken to just riding her in the hackamore lately cause i'm lazy and i don't have a competition to worry about so..meh! They are turning out to be such great trail horses, by the way, i've come to HATE arenas. I rode Carlton in the pen yesterday and was bored within 5 miliseconds. so I took him out on the trail and down into the riverbed and got more accomplished than I would have in the arena. Who would have known loping the windy switchbacks would turn into teaching lead changes?? huh..
Anyhow, I have some rather awesome news. We all have a horse that we had at one point and wished we didn't sell..mine was a bred in the purple little mare name Foxy Cutter Belle. She is a registered breedingstock paint but had all the talent in the world to hang with the big boys. Unfortunatly she came out with not a speck of white on her and she was sold to us for $2500 when she was two. I took her, broke her, and won every local show class under the sun with her...then I did the most idiodic thing of my life. I sold her. I've been searching for her for a few years, the new owner never transfered her into his name, so everywhere I got a dead end. I sort of knew where she was, the same barn I left her at, but I didn't really know. The other day my parents were driving around looking for properties and we came by this one house that was locked up, we called our agent but she was at the river and couldn't come open it. So my dad goes over to his friends house who lives in the same neighborhood, who's wife is a realtor, and askes if she can open the door for us. Their daughter has a horse, so naturally we stuck up a convorsation. I asked her where she boarded her horse and she said Moonshadow Farms...That's where I sold Belle...So I say "oh yeah, that's cool, I think my old mare Belle is there." and she goes "Belle?!?! you owned her? She's for sale!" My heart pounded, I couldn't breath, my mind was racing, it was all I could do from leaping out of the car and shouting.
Needless to say, The next day I went to the bank, pulled out the money I had been saving to buy Ruger with (trust me I fought myself hard when I saw a saddle I could have bought with the money) and bought Belle back.
She's home, forever. :)
-Jenn
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
we moved!
the horses anyway. the place we were at, the people were losing thier house so we had to do an emergency move yesterday.
I was prowling craigslist this morning only to find they were selling all of thier stalls. ha. good thing I got my horses out!
We moved to this cool place with an arena and a bitchin round pen. The lady breeds paso finos so there are lots of funny moving horses on the property! lol.
it's nice though to be at a place right next to the riverbed, i'm going down there tooonight!
-Jenn
I was prowling craigslist this morning only to find they were selling all of thier stalls. ha. good thing I got my horses out!
We moved to this cool place with an arena and a bitchin round pen. The lady breeds paso finos so there are lots of funny moving horses on the property! lol.
it's nice though to be at a place right next to the riverbed, i'm going down there tooonight!
-Jenn
Thursday, May 28, 2009
The Cadillac Ranch
So my parents are buying property in Norco (Horsetown USA!), one cause we are tired of boarding, and two cause my dad wants us to train out of a nice facility that we can do what we please with.
I'm super stoked. My dad came up with a name for the ranch, and I came up with the logo. awesome no? I'm working on a website right now, we need someone to come out and take cool photos of us with our ponies then it will be bitchen.
Ruger was a "ranch horse" yesterday when i rode her. you know, when cowboys or working ranching break a horse from a hackamore to a snaffle they ride with the snaffle over the hackamore so they can ride with both and still have control..so thats what i did. she was awesome, i love her.
more later.
-Jenn
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