Gymkhana 2012 Schedule

We just posted our Gymkhana 2012 schedule so take a look.  All the dates are on the 4th Saturday of the month.  Registration starts at 9am.  Events start at 10am.  Gymkhanas usually last til about 12:30pm or longer depending on how many riders we have.

Let us know if you have any questions or concerns on the dates:

May 26th (weather depending)
June 23rd
July 28th
August 25th

The events we will run every Gymkhana are barrels, poles.  Other events that we rotate around are the flag race, goat tail tying, water race, tire race, boot race, pony express, quadrangle race and speed ball.  As we get closer to event days, we'll post the exact events that we will be running.  Also, we always post the results in our local paper and we will be posting them on the website.

Theses Gymkhanas are not only fun and but they also give you a chance to work on specific skills with your horse.

Let us know if you have any events that you would like to do and we'll be sure to do them!

See http://joneslandandlivestock.com/Events.html for more details.

Turning Dreams Into Reality

Remember when we talked about what your horse goals are for 2012?

My daughter has had a dream for a long time to train a horse for show and hit the show circuit. It's starting to become a reality for her.

This week she got a new horse,a three-year old, named Pleased By Chex out of Miss Fritzie Bug and sired by Chic Please.

Normally Chic Pleases are pretty hot and not normally a youth horse.  However, Pleased By Chex seems to be pretty mellow.

She's been researching horses with Josh, her Dad, forever- trying to find the right horse.  The right horse needed to be something with great breeding, in her price range, and had to fit into her business plan.

Yes, my 13 year old daughter has a business plan.

After all, not only are we in the business of horses, but we are in the business of raising kids.  There is nothing better than doing projects with your kids to teach them a few things about life.  And, a neat side effect of doing things with your kids is that they love to spend time with you.

So her business plan is broken down into two parts- Part A and Part B.  Part A- she trains the horse with her dad for the next year and hits a few shows to get a show record on her.  Then she sells her horse in a year to get a return on her investment.  Now the hard part A of her business plan is that tricky emotional part where you fall in love with the horse and just can't sell it.  Since that is highly likely, she also has a part B so that she can still make a return on her investment.  Part B is to breed her horse and sell the foals to get her money back out of it.

A funny part about her investment is that she didn't have enough to buy it outright, so she had to borrow some money from her brother to complete the transaction.  So her brother teases her that he is currently a 15% owner in the horse until she pays him back.  In the meantime, her other horse, Lake Hazel Suezee Que, is for sale.   She is currently in foal to a son of Mister Dual Pep and due within a month.  She's a great little barrel horse.

The next step for her is to put together a training regimen /schedule and a plan to get ready for the first show on May 5.