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

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.

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Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I try to keep this thing as horsie oriented as I can. There is lots of stuff going on with me, but it's not all horses..and thats why you guys come here..to get a look see at my horse 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.

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

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

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

bits, bridles, and a brilliant idea

Ruger is learning what a snaffle is all about and coming along nicely. We put the bridle on like a pro and we know how to lead from it now. It helps when horses are smart when you are training them! She didn't enjoy backing up (remember those holes I was talking about being left unfilled? our backing is the grand canyon of holes) so I bought two new long lines and attempted to drive her backward in the round pen.

nope.

having someone walk in front of her with a tarp.

nope.

backing her like i do in a showmanship class .

bingo!

she will get it eventually. I have some tricks up my sleeve for when I ride her in the snaffle to get her to back, but on the ground frustrates me.
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Kristy Reed has a brilliant idea and I want to be in on it 110%. She wants to create a club that puts on 5 to 6 shows for MUSTANGS ONLY with daily highpoint and year end awards. (I think it should be a BLM branded, or offspring of BLM branded mustang show only cause your going to get grade horses whos owners will claim "mustang" just to show.)

How friggin sweet is that?? I want to get it started NOW! :) Please chime in if you know how to get one of these clubs started and what is needed!

Ruger, Striker, and Miss El Paso

Thought the other day that I would keep this thing updated so all of my followers (all 3 of you lol) could keep tabs on us.

Ruger and Striker are learning to take bits in thier mouths this week. We were going to give them a week off, but I've heard of some trainers from other EMM's that gave thier horses time off and they are pretty much starting over. So, to keep that away from us I'm trial riding and working in the round pen.

When you have 90 days to gentle and break a wild horse, there are holes that you leave unfilled just to get them to the show. Ruger hasn't had a bit in her mouth for more than a day...ever... I opted to leave that hole open cause I didn't want to deal with trying to stick something in a wild horses mouth..choose your battles wisley with the wild ones i say.

She opened her mouth and took the snaffle like a pro yesterday, she's ready for one anyway cause she now has callouses on her jaw from the bosal and doesn't listen anymore(ok sometimes, but not always)

She picked up this biting thing at the EMM too..i let her do it cause i didn't want anyone to buy her, but now that she's home..it's ass kickin time! lol.


Miss El Paso has a tendon thats acting up but she isn't sore on it so we are icing it and working more on her ground work. I like my horses DEAD on the ground, whoa means whoa, and clucking means get your ass in gear. it's funny to work with a horse that I haven't started..there are holes to fill that I don't know about, it's like whack a mole...find it, whack it, move on.

Stryker is well...stryker and is currently turned out with carlton in the round-ish pen. The place we are at ran out of stalls so they built a turnout of sorts for friendly horses to go in till some horses leave...you hear that Ruger I said FRIENDLY! :)

There are now more mustangs at the facility than there are "broke" horses..lol. The owners have 2 and we have 4.

Last but not least....

I have a great broke trail horse that I'm offering FREE to a good home. This guy thinks he's a person, and loves attention. He's been sitting for a while so he's out of shape, fat, and kinda ugly, but he's way cool. oh, and he has (so i was told) a bone spur on in his foot. every so often he will take a lame step but thats it.

let me know if your interested in him.


till later
-Jenn