Training has begun to pull a cart

I have been having so much fun with Artax since purchasing him this summer. We have become a great team and learning so much together. I am not only learning to do jumping and dressage on him but I am training him to pull a cart. I don't have a cart yet but I hope to purchase one in the spring. I have been ground driving him and he is picking it up like a champ. I have been doing my research and one of the essential components of training a horse to drive as well is riding is getting really responsive to your voice commands and use to steering. Then the next step is to hook them up to a tire or sled if it's snowy out once they are ground driving down pat and are really obeying your voice commands. That's the next step with Artax once he's really comfortable with me ground driving him. He's picking up ground driving really well so it won't be long before I will hook him up to a tire. Here's some pics of me ground driving him and some other ones just letting him loose to graze.

New Chapter, New Horse

Hello all, I haven't posted here in some odd years. Been busy the last several years. I've been with my fiance for the last 3 and a half years, with Facebook and all the social media, I guess I never bothered to post on here. I'm now 22 years old and living in a little house in Hillyard. I have four dogs and a lot of cats. My dog is my service dog. She is mostly Shepherd but we think she may have some collie in her due to the shape of her face. She's a good dog and has helped me with my disability in ways that could never be helped. I sold Fox this last spring due to his lameness issues that where even light riding he was soar. I thought it was the end of my horse riding deal. But I was suffering serious horse withdrawals and couldn't live without a horse. With me getting approved for disability and taking on a new part time job, I started horse searching again. I wanted to try a new breed. After growing up with Quarter Horses and stock horses in general over the years, I wanted to try a Thoroughbred. Thoroughbreds are few and far between in my area due to the popularity and high demand for stock horses. After some persistence and perseverance, I came across this Thoroughbred up in Rathdrum, Idaho. He was a 12-year-old bay 17 hand off the track Thoroughbred. He didn't have any lameness issues whatsoever, he was the most chill Thoroughbred I've ever met(not your typical TB), and his age since he was still relatively young is what sold me on him. His registered name is Pete's Boy. I call him Artax after the horse from the movie, The Neverending Story. It was love at first sight. Me and Artax clicked immediately. Here are some pictures of me and my recent events with Artax. I'll try to keep this blog up to date with my adventures of my horse and other critters.