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bella, a three year old Dutch/Oldenburg mare, won her first dressage class with a score of 68%. She was tense and not quite her elastic self in the electric atmosphere of the NEDA Fall Festival of Dressage at Saugerties. Bella also watched the top jumpers compete in a nearby arena. After hanging out around the arenas she began to relax a bit and enjoyed the festivities. Bella was started by Rex Peterson and Cari Swanson 3 months ago and has progressed remarkably fast in her education. Bella is an outstanding young horse capable of excelling in dressage, eventing or jumping. Contact Cari to come try Bella at Windrock Farm.
Last weekend Joa was third in the open Training Level division at Town Hill Horse Trials, after placing 6th in dressage, Joa went on to jump a flawless show jumping round and a clean cross country round on Kestrel. Although Kestrel looked at a few fences on the cross country course– the log over the ditch and the water, Joa rode him beautifully around the course. All of the training and hard work has paid off with this team finishing the season in top form.
photo by Ken Regan Camera 5
The greatest race horse of modern times, Secretariat, has a new movie coming out next year. The film will depict the life story of Penny Chenery, owner of the racehorse Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown in 1973. Diane Lane will portray Penny and as in all films, several horses have been cast to play Secretariat from a young foal to mature adult.
Grace rides Black Gold, RJ/Hidalgo’s 3 year old filly who has 11 days of training. This outstanding filly is a talented young horse with an amazing temperament. Black Gold is a 3 year old breeding stock paint mare with a great mind. This jet black filly has been trained by Rex Peterson and Cari Swanson. She is available for sale to someone looking for a special horse, she is such a talented athlete and will excel in any discipline.
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After 5 years from its premiere, the Disney film “Hidalgo” remains popular among many horse lovers. Every week I receive emails from fans asking about the number of horses used in making this epic tale. Here are good friends, Viggo Mortensen (the human star) and Rex Peterson (the horse trainer) on TJ and RJ behind the scenes on the set in Morocco. You can see the make-up running off the horses faces. Each morning the 2 main cast horses had to sit for over an hour while the make-up crew painted them to look alike. Just another example of the magic of making movies.
Started the chestnut filly a week ago, she wanted to buck but we would not let her, she tried everything but would not be allowed to be ignorant so now a week into her training she is obedient and listening to the legs and hands and seat of the rider.
Bella learns to canter along side her stablemate, Tuff who teaches her how to stay in forward motion, using the horses natural instinct to be part of the herd helps them learn quickly with little fight.
Started the grey warmblood, he is 6 years old and never been broke. He is a sensitive horse, has learned to steer and move off the leg with many circles around the arena in walk and then trot. Whenever he drifts away from the track, we circle and point him back toward to track, until he wants to stay out there. This is a very intelligent willing horse.
At a recent clinic, Rex Peterson introduced this Ancora to a Grand Prix dressage horse who wrings his tail in piaffe and passage.
This simple device known as the Ancora, will help your horse stop wringing his tail, thus putting all his energy into his work. The bells on the bottom also teach him to not be afraid of anything behind him. You must ride your horse with this for a minimum of 10 days so that he learns that every time he lifts his tail it cannot go anywhere, eventually he will not even try to swing it. Trick ropers ride their trick horses in this for the first 2 years of training so that the ropes never get caught under the tails. Horses trained for the movies all learn to ride with this as part of their desensitizing routine.
Last weekend we broke 2 young horses to accept the saddle and rider. Here you can see Rex controlling this young gelding for his first ride. Steele stays close to Cache as he learns to accept the aids from the rider. Rex is able to stop the horse from bucking or rearing with the neck rope so that he never learns these bad habits.
Check out this new Youtube video of Rex Peterson working Tuff at Liberty
Teaching a horse to trust and work this well takes hours and hours of patience.
We just returned from a successful weekend in Nashville, TN where the AQHA hosted the first of many Quarterfest Events honoring the Quarter Horse from many aspects of the horse world. Reining, roping, mounted shooters, trail classes and amazing performances each evening kept us all busy each day. Tuff (from the films Flicka, Van Helsing, Appaloosa) and Cache (Viggo’s mount in Appaloosa) performed each evening in a liberty act , amazing the audience with a display of control of each horse with Rex using only body movements and the whips to guide his horses.