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Name
Pending
The
New Kidd On The Block
Welcome! Here I've put
together a little ditty about my favorite yearling gelding, Cisco. Here is a short 411 on
the 'little boy':
Name:
Dixie's Cisco Kidd (pending)
Breed: Spotted Saddle Horse
Gender: Gelding (gelded at 6 months)
Age: 14 months
Color: Palomino
Height: 15.1
Sire:
Look Who's Talking
Dam: Elliots Dixie
Personality: Cisco came to us as a mostly untouched 4 month old stud
colt. He had not been halter broke, had hardly been touched and worked with at all, and
had only been on grass since his birth. Undoubtedly his dam had not had anything to help
her nutrition-wise in the pregnancy, and we do know she had had no worming or shots before
we bought her. But miraculously enough, Cisco is a very healthy and active colt today.
Cisco
loves to be around people, and seems to find reassurance in them. He is extremely smart, I
just love working with him, he picks things up so quickly. I think it is probably safe to
say he is the most intelligent horse I have ever had the pleasure to work with.
Potential: Not
really sure what we will do with Cisco. He came with his mother, Dixie, who my mom bought
for her horse. My dad says he is his horse, haha, so who knows. I would like to be able to
break him myself gradually and maybe make a trail horse out of him. Just a pleasurable
guy, ^_^.
I've
typed out a few of the major training episodes we have done with Cisco so far, so feel
free to check 'em out!
Haltering
101
Those
first couple months we didn't do much with him but try to get him into a halter. Which my
mom, dad, and grandpa tried one day. The scene that was described to me came across as
this (I had been away on a Church camping trip): They put mama and him in a stall, and
here come two large men and my mother to try to wrestle him into a halter. He was having
none of it! They said he was trying to climb the walls to get away from them and that
thing in they're hands. So they gave up and let the two out again. The next day I went out
and buckled the halter onto the gate, where Cisco preceded to come over (he has always
been inquisitive) and start chewing on it, as baby foals are wont to do. The next day I
went out in the pasture to fool around with him a bit, and decided to try my luck with the
halter. He stood completely still, not moving a muscle, and let me slip it over his head.
He was still standing quietly as I fiddled around with it trying to get it to the proper
size. And there you have it. Cisco's first successful halter lesson...After I knew he was
well acquainted with the halter and the process of taking it on and off, I took it off for
good, so as not to get him caught in anything, and I didn't think he needed it on anymore.
He was very easy to catch, coming right up to you.
Leading
101
The next
training session on the agenda was of course leading. Cisco had been weaned not long
before, doing very well with it in fact, and we knew it was time to move ahead.
Well, one day my mom and
I had gone to town for something or other, and came back to see Bro. Larry, the deacon
from our Church, there at the house. My dad was helping him with his vans air conditioner.
Bro. Larry is a great horseman, and he offered to help us start lead training him. So we
go out there, he halters Cisco up, and takes him into the pasture. Low and behold, Cisco
is walking, stopping, and turning like an old pro! What is going on here?!
Then we
come to find out he had already been working with him while we were gone! LOL. So anyway,
Bro. Larry said he was a great student, and learned very quickly. We were proud.
Coming
Soon: Cisco and bitting and saddling
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