Horse Training

Peter DoulgeropoulosIQuest

Objective of The Year

• My objective this year was to get my horses ready for competition– Dash and Briar were going to do halter/modeling

class– Hoot was bought to sell but now I am keeping him– Ditto goal was to get him healthy and into a trail

class or cowboy challenge

Hoot

• Hoot is a 13 year old green broke gelding– He spent three in pasture till I acquired him in Sept.

• The I acquired Him

Working Hoot

• When I first got him worked from the ground for an hour a day– I use to stand with a lead rope and throw it over

• Over the last four months I have ridden Hoot four days a week– In the arena

• Now in the past few weeks I have been trail riding– We have been running down hills and chasing cows

Hoot

Ditto

Ditto

• Ditto is a dead broke gelding– He’s the horse I learned to ride– He’s isolate resistant which means he can only

have grass hay– He needs to be worked three times a week so he

can keep weight off and not founder – I have had to become his nutrtionest

Briar

• Briar is a six year old mare– She underweight, had baby, and was two months

when was four years old• We didn’t know she was pregnant till the baby was

born• She then got bit by a rattle snake and had to be taken

to U.C. Davis• Now I have been putting weight on her

Briar At U.C. Davis

Briar’s Hole

Dash

• Dash is a stud colt– He was a mistake baby– This year I taught him how trailer, tie, pick up his

feet, and ground work

Five to Ten Years

• My dream is to be a mounted patrol officer

Future Plans

• Next year I will have my horses on my ranch in Linden, CA while attending Delta community college

Blog

The blog was an interesting thing. My favorite blog was the one where I talked disciplining my horses.

https://www.blogger.com/home/foxtrotterhorses

Book

• The I read was Considering The Horse by Mark Rashid. The book gave me great tips on how to deal with my horses.

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