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It sounds like whatever direction you choose to go with Frodo you have one helluva canny pony there .
‘Canyy’ is smart/clever, at least that’s my guess from the usage there.
Basically these days we just use ‘uncanny’! 😆 Just like ‘hapless’ and ‘reckless’ but we don’t use ‘hap’ and ‘reck’ anymore.
And I’ve been enjoying reading all these updates, though I’m not lucky enough to have grown up/worked with horses. 🙂
I see. Thanks!
I wasn’t lucky enough to grow up with horses either. I waited until I was 23 to get my first horse and then another. I had to sell them both when I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. I had two kids in two years and the horses were being ignored. So they were better off finding new homes.
Skip to 30 years old and I bought a horse. Horse almost killed me and went to a better rider’s home 😆
I fear riding now, so have gotten into the ponies. Someday I’ll ride again, and when I do, I can still stay with the Welsh ponies as the section Ds are 14.2 hh and up. But until then, I am just enjoying them from the ground!A good and not so good update. He gets first! And then has to be scratched for the Championship round:
I took Frodo to the show today. I took him in Open Stallions halter with 3 other Quarter horses and Frodo won the class! He showed well as I was last into the class and being a small class he didn’t have time to drop too much, and he showed for the judge pretty well. Then we entered the ‘color class’… We were to go round the ring on the rail at a walk as a group in both directions and then stand up on the rail. Well,,,he was dropped the Whole time, No amount of correction like walking, backing or trotting in circles would get him to even Try to pull it up at all by then. So no ribbon in the color class…
Frodo also dropped a Lot outside of the ring, and going in and out of the ring there were a lot of horses standing around the in gate and he screamed(!) going thru them every time. But in that first class he did fairly well. But after that class his dropping got worse and worse to the point that he would Not put it up for Anything. I scratched the championship as I just didn’t want to make another spectacle of ourselves. One lady outside of the ring was yelling at me for correcting Frodo’s bad behavior, and accusing me that it was all my fault(!) (And I was Not cracking the whip, just tapping his flank and making him trot around me to attempt to get him to “pull it up”.) Other people were more understanding and they said not to listen to her as some people have never had to deal with stallions. One younger lady came up and said that she understood my pain and frustration with him as she had been in the same predicament before. The show management even gave my husband a show prize list for next month and invited us back.
Well, I’m so depressed! The trainer just let me know she’s not going to show him any longer. She says it’s just too frustrating for him and her and he’s just not able to handle it. So instead of ruining his mind, it’s best that he finishes he training and comes home. 😥
I had such high hopes for him and the trainer said if he can get over the dropping issues, he’d be a top stallion for sure. I think that makes me feel worse! If he was mediocre, I’d have no problem gelding him and letting him become a kid’s riding pony. But this way, I’m left feeling like he still deserves a chance to be a sire.
So I’ll bring him home and breed the mares and hope for a colt with his charisma that has a bit more control!So Fortune is next in line. When Frodo comes home, she’ll go down. She’s going to be more of a hunter/jumping pony and I’ll continue the logs with her. 😮
That’s too bad, Phoenix 🙁 It sounds like Frodo does have a lot of potential. I hope things work out a little better with Fortune!
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