Setting teh Record Straite

*I has to interrupt my regular scheduled blog to make an announcement regarding a certain character at teh RB. Puhlease listen closely. *

Yesterdays I has teh fortune of 2 human mares companies while going for mey walk. Tehy chatter about tihs and taht, I has mostly boredom wiht it. Howevers, mey ears perked up a bit wehn tehy start talkings about a horse named Frank.

I knowes tihs horse. I has known him for longers than these 2 human mares. Tihs horse is troubles. As a baby- we has lots of hard playtimes. In teh beginning, I has fun. I shows him how to play. But he always tries to go so far. But since I has talls and he has shorts, I can win teh games. But as he has more talls, tihs gets harder to do. He does bad things like scraping teh truck wiht his teeths. Bad.

Then one day, one of these human mares, (I dont normally mention names, but todays I will: my PARTNER) has eyes for Frank. Teh day she decided to do tihs I was shocked. Taht young horse put on quite teh show. I stood back watching- not knowing tihs human mare and knowing tihs Frank would act up like a joker colt and ruin it for hisself. But noes- he gives me teh wink in teh eye and off he goes, pretending he knowes all these fancie mooves he copies from teh others, like me.

Tihs human mare falls in teh love and takes him homes many moons ago (2 years worth for teh humans who don't count by teh moons).

Taht was the last of Frank. Until I mooves to Red Barn. And there he is, on teh other side of teh fence, has smirks at me. OH NOES! He's like a flys taht won't buzz offs.

I has been trying to let bygones be bygones, I has been pretending he is acres away and I don't sees him, even when he calls for me.

Back to yesterdays. During our walk, Frank's story came up. I suddenly has anger. I pins my ears down flat and give ugly face to my partner and teh other human mare. Tehy look surprised. Tehy keep talking about him and I has to give teh ugly face AGAIN! Tihs time my partner gets it and no longer talks about tihs joker.

From what I can tells so far, he is still teh joker. I has no caring for waht he does on his own, but I can't stand for teh joker stories when I has work to do, I has a reputation.

Thank yu for lending yur ear.

Now back to teh regular programs.

Rollin' With It...Like teh Mustangs Do

Oh Hai everyone! Todays was a special day, cuz I met somebody new! Teh trimmer up here. She's nice, and she likes teh tb types, so she likes me cuz I has everything a tb has...and more cuz I also has paint blood.

Here is me getting my hoofs trimmed. See how easy this is? I gots some "toes" taken offs and a good mustang roll. I see why teh mustangs like this. It works great for teh hooves.

Don't forget the back hoofs! I will wait patiently until yur done. Keep up teh good work, trimmer friend! See yu soon!

Has a Sit!

I has no updates lately becuz I has been doing nothing worth telling. Just eatings, drinkings, sleepings, and moping. Sumbody, I won't say names, says they want to works with me- but theys has not been working with mees. I waits for teh sumbody.

Yesterdays things went back to normals. Up to teh groomings, wear teh saddle (tihs time the thorowgood with padding), and into teh circus pen. Walks and trots, and working on being relaxed at teh trots. My partner keeps telling me to swing- I has little swing but I is getting more each time. I like how she pictures in her head what I has to look like, because tehn I try to copy it. It is hard work but I is up to teh job.

So after all that, I go to teh center of teh pen, and we do teh pretend mounting except tihs time my partner really sat on mees. I bend my neck around to check if she is really up thare. Yup, she is. Tehn she gets off. What teh heck is going on? And tehn she gets on again. Ok. A couple more times, teh both sides of mee.

I convinced her tihs was boring. So she got brave and we went for a walks around teh circus pen. I showed her what it was like to be on teh full circle. Its a long ways from the middle.

Todays was Boring!

Ehh, I has boredom todays. I is so used to my routines and todays I got nothings but 2 flavors meals. My partner explained to me she has busyies today, but tomorrows will be back to our routines. I hope soes because I has to get ready. I don't knowes if I told yus, but I has jumper blood in mees and I is going to be one of teh best out there.

Ohhs, I also tried on a thorowgood saddle and it fit teh best- so far. I hasn't tries moving in it yet, but first feel says it works teh best. Tomorrow we'll give it a proper test.

Ernie With A Saddle, Second Edition

Hai everyone!

Todays we returned to teh circus pen. My partner tells me its called a roundpen too. Ok, its round...I buy it.

I knowes right away what to do. My partner says "out" and out I goes. We warm up at teh walk. I remembers to stretch my neck down- I has this covered now. My partner says "ta-rot!" and I do teh trot. When I goes faster I forget to keep teh circle big, so my partner reminds me with teh "out" word- this way works good for us.

I tried on a treeless saddle todays during the whole time I was in teh pen. Its called a "fhoenix." But it doesn't look like a bird or teh city in Aridzona. It has soft and squishy. Underneath it I has a sheepskin fluffy pad with shims in there to help teh saddle stay away from my withers. I like all this about teh fhoenix.

At teh end of teh circus practice, my partner and I practiced standing next to teh big block she uses to get in teh saddle. I never seen her has so much talls, so it was weird at first. But I got used to it. We practiced on teh right and teh left.

And then, she tried to get on me but forgot a couple necessary things for riding. #1 Stirrups. Teh mounting block is too short to get on without stirrups of some kind. #2 Teh knowledge of how to mount. Last time I checked teh human has to swing teh leg over to my ohter side...my partner just leaned over me and sort of hung there. I thought this situation has weirdness all over it so I just stood there, sort of hoping she wasn't expecting me to move with her up there like that.

Next time she should really plan better. If yus want to rides, bring teh stirrups. Oh yea, yu forgots teh reins too.

Circus Circus! But No Lions and Tigers...

Oh Hai everybody!

I graduated to teh grooming station last nite. No more paddock for mees. I stood nicely for my groomings and fly sprays.

Yesterday was very fun becuz I gots to practice for teh circus with my partner. I is not going to be in teh circus, but it is good practice for riding competitions which many are like teh circus. So its best to practice from teh beginning- no?

I gots to wear a fluffy white pad and someting she called a circussingle- basically it is tis extra long girth that goes around mey bellie and has rings on it. I has seen pictures of circus horses wearing tihs thing- so I knowes what it is.

We worked teh circus circle- teh idea was to see how far apart we could be but still goes in a circle for teh audience. At first dis was hard so we stayed close. Tehn we decided that teh word "out" means make teh circle bigger.

We also decided it would be teh best for teh show if I could trot with my head towards teh grownd. If I stretch my neck down I looks relaxed and teh audience is not scared, considering I has talls. I knows what it is like to has scares so I do tihs for teh audience. Teh word "down" means put teh head lower. We has work to do on dis one because it is hard to do for long times.

Today teh practice audience was teh geldings from teh barn. Tomorrow, who knows, meybe many peoples.

I also got to wear Bobby's english headstall. Dis confuses me becuz I never met dis Bobby and a stall was definitely not on my head. Taht would be scary. Humans have funny werds for things like dis. I also got to taste sweet iron. Ohhh taht was yummers and made me so readies for my afternoon flavors.

Sorries- pictures are still in teh camera.

Teh Running of Teh Equinez

Today has crazy feel all over it. All, and I mean all, the RB horses has to run today. I took some time out to has my afternoon flavors, but I has to run too with thems. Here I is waiting for teh running to start.Vamanos!