http://reinersblog.com/al Al: King of commentary and slider extraordinaire Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:40:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I sometimes have a hard time finding all the show schedules nearby. I get the "Horsesmouth" magazine and watch on the Illinois Horse Online board. But so many times I see a show posted for the next day and I can't make arrangements to get there. The bigger shows are easy ... http://reinersblog.com/al/more-help/ Working on the fast and slow lope circles. Maybe you've got a few tricks that you use? So far as I get older I'm not sure when we're loping circles whether the horse or me slows down first. http://reinersblog.com/al/need-help/ I'm pretty simple when it comes to my tack I use for training. No gimmicks, nothing fancy. Just good useable stuff that will last. If it wasn't for Chris all my stuff would be be pretty darned ugly. She makes sure she buys some stuff that got a little pretty ... http://reinersblog.com/al/new-snaffle-bit/ We went to the Northern Illinois Horse Fair last Saturday. I went for basically one reason, to talk with Tommy Garland, a trainer from Va. The reason being is I'd seen him a few times on RFD-TV a while back and he demonstrated some of his techniques for tying a ... http://reinersblog.com/al/new-training-rig/ I didn't pre-register for the show since I was waiting until the last minute to see what level we could get to and if it would be worth even entering. On the way over to the clinic I had pretty much decided we weren't going to show. We had the ... http://reinersblog.com/al/the-show/ Brandy (Sweet Donna Twist, AQHA) and I made the Heidi Green reining clinic on Saturday. We got there early because I knew Brandy would be wanting to look at everything. Seems most mares are like that. And I was right...after getting tacked up we went and looked at all the ... http://reinersblog.com/al/the-clinic/ The benefit of having a bunch of horses to ride is you get to see how each one is different. Sure keeps ya thinking and trying to learn. But every once in a while you run into one that does the teaching. I'm fortunate to have one like that in ... http://reinersblog.com/al/sometimes-its-easy/ Anybody else wanna stick their hand in my wallet and pull out whatever they darn well please? Pretty much seems how things go nowadays anyway. Gas prices, grain prices, hay prices, food prices, land prices. Everything that has anything to do with the horse business is through the roof. I don't ... http://reinersblog.com/al/ridin-to-town/ Take a day to do nothing. Find a pasture or lot with a bunch of horses in it. Find a fence or somethin to sit on and get comfortable. Then just watch. Watch how the horses interact. How they "train" each other. How the young ones learn from the older ones. ... http://reinersblog.com/al/watchin-horses/ First thing comes to mind is "who cares?". well don't matter none to me cause I'm gonna tell ya anyhows. Illinois weather gets pretty interestin this time of year. Wear everything you own one day to fight off the wind chill then get peeled down to keep from sweatin the next. ... http://reinersblog.com/al/wheres-al-been/