LauraLeigh Farms

Saturday, October 19th, LauraLeigh Farms in New Hope will host a free day of horseback riding and family fun including a picnic lunch for the families of active service men and women, veterans and reservists. The hours are 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Please call or email to reserve a spot for your family by October 10th. 770-827-7187 lauraleighfarms@aol.com For more information on Horses4Heroes go to www.Horses4HeroesUSA.com

I regret having to cancel the open house scheduled for today at LauraLeigh Farms, yet again. The overnight storms have saturated the grounds and we have a tree down along with a lot of limbs. Since this nasty weather pattern may be with us into September, we will reschedule for fall. Thanks, everyone, for your patience.

The Horses4Heroes open house is on for tomorrow, Saturday, July 20th at LauraLeigh Farms. All are welcome to come by and express their appreciation for our local heroes!

Mrs. G, please put me down for soup, canned fruit, peanut butter and jelly. I will have kids here all week for day camp so I don't known when I can deliver the items.

The open house scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday, July 6th) at LauraLeigh Farms has been cancelled due to inclement weather. We are rescheduling this event for Saturday, July 20th, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Thank you!

Greystone Power has offered us free mulch several times.

Thank you to Rodney and Tammy Dobson at Rodney's BBQ & Catering and to Sue Sarty at Black Horse Trading for their food donations to our Horses4Heroes open house!

LauraLeigh Farms in Dallas, GA will be hosting a Horses4Heroes open house on Saturday, July 6, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. There will be hot dog lunches, drinks, snacks and homemade ice cream along with horseback riding and games. Free to all our local heroes: firemen, police officers, active military, veterans, reservists, EMT's, paramedics, hospice nurses, critical care nurses and special needs teachers and their families. Email lauraleighfarms@aol.com for details or if you would like to volunteer to assist with preparing food, organizing games or assisting with the horses. Our way of s

Few horses move like their ancestors with the possible exception of some of the mustangs. I have a 21 year old mustang that was captured at 6 months old from a herd of Spanish Mustangs. Her trot is very smooth and elevated; awesome to watch and completely natural. My research into the gaits of horses over the years seems to point to most walk, trot, canter breeds originally having much smoother gaits than they have now. There was a racking trainer just outside of Birmingham when I was growing up and his claim to fame was that he could teach any horse to rack. His example was a QH that h

I have been blessed with some amazing horses in my life, one was a racking horse, one was a TB and two wonderful cutting bred quarter horses. All my favorites have been mares.

I am so jealous! I keep a copy of the Lone Ranger's Creed on the wall in my office at home. Clayton Moore is the one and only Lone Ranger.

I got my first racking horse 55 years ago. I had a saddlebred that was trained to perform the slow gait and the rack. I have had walking horses that were trained to rack when they didn't pick up the flat walk and running walk. I also had a Morab that had been trained to rack and I have even seen a QH that had been trained to rack. I don't disbelieve that you have seen foals single foot at a week old. I have a QH mare that was doing sliding stops at 2 weeks old. It is a trait of her breeding but not all quarter horses do it. IMHO there are only 4 natural gaits: walk, trot, canter, gallop.

Interesting since Trigger was born before the Palomino registry existed. There is a lot of conflicting information regarding Trigger and a lot of registries that have tried to claim him.

There are color breeds and color breed registries like the one for paints. There are also registries for palominos, buckskins, etc... The racking horse is not a breed, it is a registry. The rack is an aritifical gait, not a natural one like the flat walk and running walk of the TWH. The 5 gaited American Saddlebred also racks in addition to the natural walk, trot, canter and slow gait (also artificial).

In Trigger's case palomino is only a color. He was not registered. His sire was a TB and his dam was an unregistered mare. Trigger's original name was Golden Cloud.