Great horsemen always say they learned their craft by letting the horses teach them. I’ve heard this from two of my own mentors. Racehorse trainer Carl Nafzger, who often tells me he doesn’t train horses, they train him, and Bettina Drummond who, when I first began as one of her students, told me that each
The intrepid trail foursome of Lynndee and Scooter, Kelly and Pai, made another venture into the Catskill Mountain forest in their effort to traverse the historic trails that vacationing presidents and dignitaries walked in the late 1800s. This trip proved much more successful in that Kelly had not only consulted her trail books beforehand, but
When Boschee Farm owner Lynndee was growing up in Colorado, visiting family members were always offered rides on the horses. Many of these same relatives still visit but they have noticed that unlike their past trips to Colorado, they are rarely offered a horseback ride during their visits to Boschee Farm. They have thus concluded
Having decided it was time for a break from serious training and that the recent phenomenal fall weather is not likely to last much longer, Lynndee and Kelly decided they were due for an away trail ride. A previous effort to find the trail leading to the site of the old Catskill Mountain House (a
The weekend of October 14-15 was a busy one for the Boschee Farm team. While Je Suis and Pele headed off to Connecticut to participate in the APAHA teaching workshop with Bettina Drummond and Maryal Barnett, Scooter and Pai took Mia and Kelly apple picking. The equines have now been swapping tales of their weekend!