08.07.06
Carriage driving young horse training
Sunday we took our horse Gilford on his first real carriage drive abroad, solo, to Granite State Carriage Assoc. drive held in Bear Brook State Park. He was a wonderful trooper, the day was perfect with crisp cooler air– it felt like driving in Acadia National Park in September, which we do yearly with our horses for a week.
Gilford got to meet a few other driving horses on this excursion. The most interesting part was driving through a campground full of tents, campers and people pulling up stakes; all new sights for him but he was mostly unfazed.
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Connie driving Gilford, 3 yr.old Arabian/Percheron gelding in Bear Brook State Park, Allenstown NH
Our handsome guy after the carriage drive and his sponge bath
Afterwards, poor Gilford got time-warped by being hauled to Springfield MA to visit with our daughter for a month. He is boarded now in Somers CT while Emmie does some training and schooling with him (advanced of what we can do,) and also she’ll help prepare him for his American Warmblood inspection coming up in early September. Right after that we WILL take him and his Arabian mom to Acadia!
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Connie Moses, petArtist– website since 2001:
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