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Jackson, the wild burro, decided to train Tooka to sled-ride. I have a lot of help around here. You might say, too much help sometimes.
Ophelia visits Tooka and goes bareback, as he walks around unconcerned about it. We have gotten to a point in the training where all sorts of new riders will be getting on Tooka.
Emanual comes to visit a wild horse on his birthday and gets a real treat.
Bethany takes her turn riding Tooka. I want students to notice his attention on the "handler", me, and seeing my hand circle-motion, he comes to a stop. Many of you know the different circular motions I make use of.
.....Some temporary changes in the breezeway to accommodate some colts. Tooka notices I need help and is unabashed by walking over the rails without hesitation.
Geneva has taken riding lessons and is comfortable atop a wild mustang. Tooka is perhaps asleep.
Yeah Right!! "Brush Me".........
Still using cross-ties are you? ----- Trudy stops by to trim him and I just got in from riding the herd.
More visitors experience the Wild Mustang
Shannon falls in love with Tooka and said she wants to come back and have me put a saddle on him for her.
Pam got a cart-driving harness from Midwest Leather in California. I have other harness stuff from these Amish people. Looks great on Tooka.
And Larry the telephone maintenance guy visited for some work and wound up being tossed onto Tooka for a photo-op.
Tooka learning to ride amongst an organised herd.
Then Randy from the NWS drops by and gets his turn while Trudy waits.
I had to have an attempt made to capture Tooka in a Canter. Just couldn't resist. Tooka and I did a LOT of running here because we HAD-A-BLAST doing it calmly !!! So, yup, we ran every chance we got and stopped nicely when asked.
Well, here we are, following Trudy who's riding "Bud-Light" a nifty, agile, calm Polo Pony. Tooka was not terribly concerned about being "way behind". This is his first trail ride. We went 15 miles at Shawnee State Park in Ohio.
Tooka is a little Dynamo, going over all kinds of terrain as if he used to live in it. There were some steep ledges there, not terribly bad looking in the foto's. I had Tooka climb up and down them hoping to let you see just how well he carries me up and down cliffs.
And I couldn't get over how much fun it was to scale 5 foot walls on my Panzer-Wagen !! That's "Nova", Trudy's girl-dog and a real trail-pro. She'd run when Tooka ran and keep looking aside at his face. Tooka would look down at her and say "Wanna Race??"
More water playing. Tooka was just wandering where he wanted to go here. So I let him explore as he wished.
Here we come, bustin' through the stuff as if it were a super-highway. Probably was to Tooka though. He's so very sure-footed I am pretty sure I have never ridden a more sure-footed horse in my life.
Crossing wooden bridges and playing with Trudy's white dog while on the run.
So there we go, marching along in the water and about a hundred yards from the finish line.
Nephew Tyler, 11 years old, has never seen a mustang, never been near a horse either. Tooka was paying attention to both of us. Good-Robot!!
Next, Blake, Tyler's brother, want to try and "steer" Tooka. Tooka was ever so patient with the 10 year old.
Aunt Fay's pleased with her 88 year old self. I am very impressed. I am also closely praising Tooka for his careful evaluation of that flying hand in his upper left-rear vision. Check out the other "Ride" that Fay made today here.
Tooka has been my right-hand man and I will sorely miss him when he leaves. Here, as usual, Tooka helps herd the sheep.
Val, Mary's husband was once a cool Russian Border guard near Vladavostok. He'd never heard of wild mustangs, so we educated him.
Anna's younger brother, Alex, gets his turn and Tooka patiently waits.
Anna tells us that Tooka has a grain bag in his mouth. Anna has been taking riding lessons. She did back-ups and turns, all by herself, on this 'wild horse' .
Danette stops by from down the road and gets the chance to ride Tooka bareback.
Niece Mary tries her luck. Years ago, Mary rode Queeup too. She's been on Rosie and several others.
Grand-daughter Tyler believes, at 6, she will take over the herding job on Tooka.
I was just training the colts and tossed the hula-hoops over the gates behind Tooka. I went in the grain room, came out, and saw Tooka picking them up, shaking them, then tossing it at Leroy.
Mary and Tyler prepare Tooka for a Sunday Warrior ride.
Karane riding without stirrups does extremely well at putting Tooka through calm sets of turns and moving flexes. Very controlled.
Lisa shows great form and control while Tooka looks asleep. Lisa's calm nature is displayed in Tooka's relaxed attitude. Your horse reacts to your personal nature. Are *you* quiet? Are you a control-freak? Look at your horse sometime and see.
Tooka and I **LOVE** to run. It's easy. Tooka runs and stops nicely whenever I want him too. This is the last picture taken with my friend Tooka as he moved on to Chicago the next day <<sigh>>
Tooka being used to change the aggressive behavior of this "Spectacular Bid"thoroughbred colt. "Aspen" is otherwise a jewell. Trouble arose when he got the notion to boss every horse and every person. Tooka loved this particular job and immediately caught on whne I'd flick a rein. Pam got it on video, if you ask her.

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