Batino

Batino has graduated from boot camp and is now working with Trisha to learn lunging in side reins and working under a dressage rider. He is doing extremely well despite a late start due to other training priorities.

Summer by Itaxerxes

Sedar, stallion related to Summer

Summer by Itaxerxes

Ripley

This is Hiro "desensitizing" Ripley with the "stick." Ripley is a June 2007 baby by Routinier out of Lucy Mae, an imported Trakehner.

Batino and Trisha - 1st day

Trisha is going to be taking Batino into his next phase of training. Hiro did a great job with the basics.

Batino is a Hanoverian/TB gelding. Sire is the late international dressage stallion, Batido, a representive of the Bolero line known for high rideability.

Bonnie visits Hiro and Batino

Clinic with Jutta Schott

Trisha and Zippy had a terrific first lesson with Jutta Schott.

Jutta Schott was certified as a Reitlehrer FN in Warendorf, Westphalia, Germany in 1981, which authorizes her to train and teach up through the FEI levels. She holds the German Bronze and Silver medals and after teaching a number of years in Germany, moved to Austria where she obtained her Austrian instructor's license and worked for seven years as an assistant head trainer at the barn of Arthur Kottas (Chief Rider of the Spanish Riding School) near Vienna. She presently lives and teaches in Redlands, California, giving clinics not only in California, but also in Montana, Oregon and Nevada.

Casey the Doberman

 

Here is another member of the family besides all the horses.

Casey is 2.5 years old.

Dior

 

Filly by DeLaurentis, 3, starting ground training in fall 2009.

Dior

 

Dior is a filly by DeLaurnetis out of Wonder Woman, bred in Michigan by Holly and Dave Kovach.

DeLaurentis is a 3/4 brother to DeCaprio.

The filly received a Premium award from the Oldenburg Verband.

She has excellent bloodlines for dressage or hunters.

She currently stands 16 hands.

Trisha jumping Zippy

 

Zippy has some very proven jumper bloodlines in his pedigree in addition to the dressage "R" line.

Abigail -- by Iroko Keur

 

Abigail is by the Keur stallion Iroko. Her mother and grandmother are both Dutch Star mares.

Iroko crossed very well with Ramiro-line mares in Holland so we have high hopes for this young mare.

Abigail by Iroko Keur

 

Abigail is by the Keur stallion Iroko out of the Star mare Mariah.

She is 4 and just starting in training.

Ripley

 

Ripley by Routinier out of the imported Trakehner mare, Lucy Mae, is doing some ground training with Hiro Nagai.

Bonnie Bedelia

 

Filly, age 3, by Pablo out of Mariah.

She is just starting ground training.

Zip in cross rail class

 

He got a third in his first class and a first in his second class (equitation).

Zip's first show

 

Batino

 

Hiro is doing a really good job getting this boy under saddle.

Too bad it is so hot and dry here. I wet down the round pen and it gets slippery. If I don't do enough watering, there is a dust storm.

Time here for a cool shower.

Dylano - July 8

 

Trisha had a really nice ride on Dylan today.

Zip

 

More Batino

 

Batino

 

Batino is 16h with huge bone and large doe eyes. He is very sweet and laidback.

Batino by Batido

 
Batino is a 2004 Hanoverian/TB gelding who is just starting in training with Hiro Nagai.

June 3

 

Trisha is making serious progress with Zip ... counter canter, walk to canter transitions and starting leg yielding. He tries to do everything that she asks. He is quite the student, with the same work ethic his sire, Routinier, is known for.