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Showtime Rehearsal

>> Colonel Summer is studying an act : loping on leg cues only, while I'm playing electric guitar in the fast tempo of our run.

Rik on Colonel Summer Playing Guitar While Loping

Working Cattle for the BTPA!

>> Mister BH Gump at a BTPA show changing herds and settling cattle.

Mister BH Gump BB Rik Raats


>> Dunnit Jazzabell BB at a BTPA show changing herds and settling cattle. She is a multi-talent cow horse.
Jazzabell Dunnit

>> Don Juan Escapes BB works a complete herd on his own! Here at a BTPA show I worked with him to change herds and to re-group herds. He is an outstanding cow horse!
Rik Raats Don Juan Escapes BB

Colored Sergeant BB particularly enjoyed melancholic songs and blues!

Julie Raats feeding a lamb. (We've got sheep too).

A Paint mare, a Quarter Horse gelding and Rik.


Rik Raats Colonel Summer

–We get all the best out of a horse by investing all the best of us in training the horse

Galloway Cattle at the pastures.


The Apple Break.

Both enjoying an apple break: Julie and the Henson Horse on Holiday.

 

 
 

Shannah, Victor and Rik showing at Hasselt Dierendag

The Youngest Horseman

Victor Raats is our youngest rider (to the schoolbus by horse!) a young groom (see above) and our youngest story teller (under). "Meisjes zijn problemen!" (girls are problems) is his new anchor story.

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Life Is a Beautiful Thing


A filly of ours two days after birth. Foals 2006? Take a look!



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